Linking Leadership to Student Learning

Linking Leadership to Student Learning Linking Leadership to Student Learning clearly shows howschool leadership improves student achievement. The book is basedon an ambitious five-year study on educational leadership that wassponsored by The Wallace Foundation. The authors studied 43districts, across 9 states and 180 elementary, middle, andsecondary schools. In this book, Kenneth Leithwood, Karen SeashoreLouis, and their colleagues report on what they found. Theyexamined leadership at each organizational level in the schoolsystem--classroom, school, district, community, and state.Their comprehensive approach to investigating school leadershipoffers a balanced understanding of how the structures within whichleaders operate shape what they do. The results within will havesignificant implications for future policy and practice. Praise for Linking Leadership to Student Learning "Kenneth Leithwood and Karen Seashore Louis offer a seminal newcontribution to the leadership field. They provide a rich andauthoritative evidence base that demonstrates clearly just whyschool leadership is so important and how it promotes successfulstudent learning."--Pamela Sammons, Ph.D., Professor ofEducation, Department of Education, University of Oxford,Oxford "This ambitious, groundbreaking, and thought provoking treatmentof the link between school leadership and student learning is atestament to the outstanding work of these exemplary scholars. Thisis a 'must read' for academics and practitionersalike."--Martha McCarthy, President's Professor, LoyolaMarymount University, and Chancellor's Professor Emeritus, IndianaUniversity "The question is no longer whether school and district leader'simpact student learning, but rather how they do it. The authorsprovide a convincing answer, one that recognizes the crucialinteraction between leader and locality."--Daniel L. Duke,Professor of Educational Leadership, University of Virginia