Overview
- Describes a well-developed and coherent framework for improving schools and student learning
- Adds many different perspectives from independent and well-known scholars
- Discusses an approach to school leadership that comes from providing evidence-based guidance
Part of the book series: Studies in Educational Leadership (SIEL, volume 23)
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Leadership practices known to be effective for improving student success are outlined in the first section of the book while the remaining sections identify four “paths” along which the influence of those practices “flow” to exercise an influence on student success. Each of the Rational, Emotional, Organizational and Family paths are populated by conditions or variables known to have relatively direct effects on student success and also open to influence by effective leadership practices.
While the Four Path framework narrows the attention of school leaders to a still-considerable number conditions known to contribute to student success, it leaves school leaders the autonomy to select, for improvement efforts, the sub-set of conditions that make the most sense in their own local circumstances. The approach to leadership described in this book provides evidence-based guidance on what to lead and flexibility on how to lead for purposes of improving student learning.
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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The Family Path
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: How School Leaders Contribute to Student Success
Book Subtitle: The Four Paths Framework
Editors: Kenneth Leithwood, Jingping Sun, Katina Pollock
Series Title: Studies in Educational Leadership
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50980-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-50979-2Published: 24 March 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84537-1Published: 07 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-50980-8Published: 15 March 2017
Series ISSN: 1572-3909
Series E-ISSN: 2543-0130
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 365
Number of Illustrations: 26 b/w illustrations
Topics: Administration, Organization and Leadership, Schools and Schooling, Higher Education, Learning & Instruction