Mapping Leadership: The Tasks that Matter for Improving Teaching and Learning in Schools

Drawing on twenty years of research in school effectiveness, this book presents a distributed model of task-based school leadership that leads to continuous school improvement. The book outlines the tasks school leadership teams must focus on to improve teaching and learning, grouped into the following five domains:

• Focus on Learning
• Monitoring Teaching and Learning
• Building Nested Learning Communities
• Acquiring and Allocating Resources
• Maintaining a Safe and Effective Learning Environment

Recognizing that the principal is a single actor in a complex web of activity influencing student learning, the focus is not only on the principal’s role but on a range of leadership and instructional practices to be shared across the leadership team (including APs, counselors, teachers, and support personnel). These tasks, organized into 21 subdomains, have been demonstrated through extensive research to contribute to improved student learning.

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• Motion Leadership: The Skinny on Becoming Change Savvy
• School Leadership in a Diverse Society: Helping Schools Prepare All Students for Success (Educational Leadership for Social Justice)
• Transitioning to Concept-Based Curriculum and Instruction: How to Bring Content and Process Together (Concept-Based Curriculum and Instruction Series)
• Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation (Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives)
• Teacher Evaluation That Makes a Difference: A New Model for Teacher Growth and Student Achievement
• Enhancing Professional Practice: A Framework for Teaching, 2nd Edition (Professional Development)
• Concept-Based Curriculum and Instruction for the Thinking Classroom (Corwin Teaching Essentials)