Five critical leadership practices the secret to high-performing schools - Ash, Ruth C.; Hodge, Pat H. (New York Routledge, 2016)
a Creating an organizational culture -- Working with others to support, encourage, or require high performance -- Using a vision, mission, and strategic plan to make decisions and inform actions -- Working with others to create a powerful organizational structure -- Leading an organization in becoming agile and flexible -- Leading others in developing, maintaining, and improving processes that increase the effectiveness of the organization -- Creating a vision and culture that focus on student learning and student needs -- Providing instructional leadership -- Leading the development of guidelines and procedures for learning -- Ensuring that key data are analyzed in a deliberate manner -- Using data and current research to improve student learning -- Communicating key data to all stakeholders -- Establishing an environment of daily learning for all -- Challenging the status quo and working with others to achieve change goals -- Implementing methods to motivate, support, and/or encourage innovation -- Conclusion -- Appendix A: data analysis tools -- Appendix B: five critical practices school or district inventory -- Appendix C: five critical practices framework.
Includes bibliographical references.
Keywords: Educational leadership -- United States; School management and organization -- United States; School improvement programs -- United States; Academic achievement -- United States