Leading for Powerful Learning: A Guide for Instructional Leaders

by Angela Breidenstein, Kevin Fahey, Carl Glickman

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

Genres: Education, Teaching, Leadership

168 pages, Paperback

First published August 17, 2012

Reviews

[Steven · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this book while helping facilitate a summer workshop dedicated to developing leadership capacity in site-based and district level school leaders. The book is full of anecdotes and examples of learning I have lived through and ideas that I wish I had as a young facilitator. Valuable, valuable, valuable.

[Nancy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Framework of adult/teacher learning felt a little forced, but each of the sections provides concrete tools and action steps for school leaders. Worth the read.