Leadership and Literacy
Principals, Partnerships and Pathways to Improvement
Elizabeth Stevens author Neil Dempster author Tony Townsend author Greer Johnson author Anne Bayetto author Susan Lovett author
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Springer International Publishing AG
Published:7th Apr '17
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"Leadership and Literacy is a comprehensive tour of all the components necessary to achieve next generation improvements in literacy. The school, classroom and teacher/administrator practice bases are here, including attention to teachers and their widely varying reception of the idea of "improvement". The book integrates the empirical base with descriptions of the levers of reform, for example, professional learning, evidence-based supervision and continuous program improvement through evaluation." (Dale Mann, Emeritus Professor, Columbia University, USA)
This book focuses on what school leaders need to know and understand about leadership for learning, and for learning to read in particular.
This book focuses on what school leaders need to know and understand about leadership for learning, and for learning to read in particular. It brings together theory, research and practice on leadership for literacy. The book reports on the findings from six studies that followed school principals from their involvement in a professional learning program consisting of five modules on leadership and the teaching of reading, to implementation action in their schools. It describes how they applied a range of strategies to create leadership partnerships with their teachers, pursuing eight related dimensions from a Leadership for Learning framework or blueprint. The early chapters of the book feature the use of practical tools as a focus for leadership activity. These chapters consider, for example, how principals and teachers can develop deeper understandings of their schools’ contexts; how professional discussions can be conducted with a process called ‘disciplined dialogue’; and how principals might encourage approaches to shared leadership with their teachers. The overall findings presented in this book emphasise five positive positions on leadership for learning to read: the importance of an agreed moral purpose; sharing leadership for improvement; understanding what learning to read involves; implementing and evaluating reading interventions; and recognising the need for support for leaders’ learning on-the-job.
ISBN: 9783319542973
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 4794g
209 pages
1st ed. 2017