Supporting Research

National Reports

Quality Leadership Matters (Young, Fuller, Brewer, Carpenter, and Mansfield, 2007)

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An Educative Look at “Educating School Leaders” (Young, Crow, Orr, Ogawa, Creighton, n.d.)

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Educating School Leaders (Levine, 2005)

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A National Perspective on Policy and Program Innovations (Hale and Moorman, 2003)

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Better Leaders for America ’ s Schools: A Manifesto (Finn and Broad, 2003).

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Improving Teaching and Learning by Improving School Leadership (Mazzeo, 2003)

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Learning to Lead: What Gets Taught in Educational Leadership Programs? (Hess and Kelly, 2002)

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Preparing a New Breed of School Principals: Time for Action (SREB, 2001)

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The Danforth Program for the Preparation of School Principals (DPPSP) Six Years Later: What Have We Learned? (Milstein, 1992)

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Mission of the Heart (Public Agenda, 2007).

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The Essential Supports for School Improvement (Allensworth, Bryk, Easton, and Luppescu, 2006)

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Gaining Traction, Gaining Ground: How Some High Schools Accelerate Learning for Struggling Students (Educational Trust, 2005)

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How Leadership Influences Student Learning (Leithwood, Louis, Anderson, and Wahlstrom, 2004)

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Balanced Leadership (Waters, Marzano, and McNulty, 2003)

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Defining an Urban Principalship to Drive Dramatic Achievement Gains (New Leaders for New Schools, 2008)

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Characteristics of Effective Leadership Preparation Programs

A Gap Analysis of Principal Preparation Programs in Illinois: Viewpoints of Superintendents, Principals, and Teachers (Pacha, Morford, Crawford, Grivetti, Murphy, and Tripses, 2008)

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Preparing School Leaders for a Changing World: Lessons from Exemplary Leadership Development Programs (Darling-Hammond, LaPointe, Meyerson, and Orr, 2007)

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Preparing School Leaders for a Changing World: School Leadership Study Case Study Summaries (LaPointe, Darling-Hammond, and Meyerson, 2007)

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Turning Around Chronically Low-Performing Schools (Institute of Education Sciences, 2008)

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Successful School Leadership: What It Is and How It Influences Pupil Learning (Leithwood, Day, Sammons, Harris and Hopkins, 2006)

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Exceptional and Innovative Educational Leadership Programs (Jackson and Kelley, 2002)

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UCEA/TEA-SIG AERA Task Force on Evaluating Educational Leadership Programs

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Teacher Leadership Development

Principal and Teacher Leadership in Chicago: Continuing Analysis of Three Initiatives (Hart, Ponisciak, Sporte, and Stevens, 2006)

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Leading for Learning: Reflective Tools for School and District Leaders (Knapp, Copland and Talbert, 2003)

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Leadership For Student Learning: Redefining the Teacher as Leader (Institute for Education Leadership, 2001)

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Investigating School Leadership Practice: A Distributed Perspective (Spillane, Halverson, and Diamond, 2001)

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