Leading for Powerful Learning

A Guide for Instructional Leaders

Kevin Fahey author Angela Breidenstein author Frances Hensley author Carl Glickman author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Teachers' College Press

Published:17th Aug '12

Should be back in stock very soon

Leading for Powerful Learning cover

Supporting teacher learning is a complicated and challenging task. This much-awaited book offers a practical research-based framework for thinking about instructional leadership, along with the necessary resources and tools for improving practice. The authors identify specific structures, formats, and strategies that an instructional leader can use to support new and veteran principals and teacher leaders. The authors also discuss ways to think about which structures are most appropriate for particular settings, offering suggestions on the most effective way to work with these structures. This unique book combines theory with best practices to create a vision of how 21st-century instructional leaders can improve education for all students.

This practical book:

  • Describes a unique adult learning framework.
  • Includes a variety of tools and protocols that leaders can use to support teacher learning in schools, districts, departments, and teams.
  • Offers instructional leaders both theory and practice—the “what to do” and also the “why” and “how.”
  • Addresses a broad spectrum of instructional leaders at the district and school levels.
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“This short, easy-to-read book overflows with good ideas and helpful tools.”

School Administrator


“Useful to instructional leaders who look for advice, ideas and empathy in their somewhat lonely leadership role—and to people aspiring to take on such a role.”

British Journal of Educational Technology

ISBN: 9780807753491

Dimensions: 229mm x 156mm x 8mm

Weight: unknown

168 pages