Quality Leadership Matters (Young, Fuller, Brewer, Carpenter, and Mansfield, 2007)
An Educative Look at “Educating School Leaders” (Young, Crow, Orr, Ogawa, Creighton, n.d.)
Educating School Leaders (Levine, 2005)
A National Perspective on Policy and Program Innovations (Hale and Moorman, 2003)
Better Leaders for America ’ s Schools: A Manifesto (Finn and Broad, 2003).
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)
Preparing a New Breed of School Principals: Time for Action (SREB, 2001)
The Danforth Program for the Preparation of School Principals (DPPSP) Six Years Later: What Have We Learned? (Milstein, 1992)
Mission of the Heart (Public Agenda, 2007).
The Essential Supports for School Improvement (Allensworth, Bryk, Easton, and Luppescu, 2006)
Gaining Traction, Gaining Ground: How Some High Schools Accelerate Learning for Struggling Students (Educational Trust, 2005)
How Leadership Influences Student Learning (Leithwood, Louis, Anderson, and Wahlstrom, 2004)
Balanced Leadership (Waters, Marzano, and McNulty, 2003)
Defining an Urban Principalship to Drive Dramatic Achievement Gains (New Leaders for New Schools, 2008)
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)
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)
Successful School Leadership: What It Is and How It Influences Pupil Learning (Leithwood, Day, Sammons, Harris and Hopkins, 2006)
Exceptional and Innovative Educational Leadership Programs (Jackson and Kelley, 2002)
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)
Leading for Learning: Reflective Tools for School and District Leaders (Knapp, Copland and Talbert, 2003)
Leadership For Student Learning: Redefining the Teacher as Leader (Institute for Education Leadership, 2001)
Investigating School Leadership Practice: A Distributed Perspective (Spillane, Halverson, and Diamond, 2001)