A Resource Book for Improving Principals’ Learning-Centered Leadership - Softcover

"Jianping Shen, Van E. Cooley, and their colleagues have nailed the concept of learning-centered leadership and the role of the principal in the work of school improvement. They provide an amazingly deep and exceptionally useful resource for strengthening learning-centered leadership in schools." (Joseph F. Murphy, PhD, Frank W. Mayborn Chair & Associate Dean for Special Projects, Vanderbilt University's Peabody College) "A Resource Book `for Improving Principals' Learning-Centered Leadership' is an excellent tool for understanding current educational leadership practice as it relates to the principalship. It offers insight into best practices that have led to improved student achievement. A must read for all practitioners!" (Paul Liabenow, Executive Director, Michigan Elementary and Middle School Principals Association) "Jianping Shen, Van E. Cooley, and their colleagues have nailed the concept of learning-centered leadership and the role of the principal in the work of school improvement. They provide an amazingly deep and exceptionally useful resource for strengthening learning-centered leadership in schools." (Joseph F. Murphy, Ph.D., Frank W. Mayborn Chair & Associate Dean for Special Projects, Vanderbilt University's Peabody College) "A Resource Book for `Improving Principals' Learning-Centered Leadership' is an excellent tool for understanding current educational leadership practice as it relates to the principalship. It offers insight into best practices that have led to improved student achievement. A must read for all practitioners!" (Paul Liabenow, Executive Director, Michigan Elementary and Middle School Principals Association)

This book focuses on seven important dimensions of principalship: data-informed decision-making; safe and orderly school operation; high, cohesive, and culturally relevant expectations for students; distributive and empowering leadership; coherent curriculum; real-time and embedded instructional assessment; and commitment and passion for school renewal. For each dimension, it provides a research base, best practices, and relevant tools. The book is particularly useful for researchers, policy makers, and educational leadership faculty members as well as, of course, principals.