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Leadership

Strong leaders are essential to the overall success of a school or district.  With strong leaders to inspire, encourage, and coordinate reforms, students and schools can perform to the best of their abilities.  But exactly how leadership is linked to positive educational outcomes, and to what extent educational leadership can be cultivated, are persistent questions.  What are the unique attributes of educational leaders?  Are there key activities that must be enacted by leaders in order to create classroom change?  What organizational practices and routines support leadership, and vice versa?  Below is a listing of CPRE research that attempts to shed light on the complex practice of school leadership.

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A Longitudinal Study of Principals' Activities and Student Performance
Assessing the Utility of a Daily Log for Measuring Principal Leadership Practice
Building District Capacity for Scaling up Instructional Improvement in High Poverty Schools
Civic Engagement and Urban School Improvement: Hard-to-Learn Lessons from Philadelphia
Conceptualizing School Leadership and Management from a Distributed Perspective
Constancy and Change in School Work Practice: Exploring the Role of Organizational Routines
Contradictions and Control in Systemic Reform: The Ascendancy of the Central Office in Philadelphia Schools
Days of Their Lives: A Mixed-Methods, Descriptive Analysis of the Men and Women at Work in the Principal's Office
Days of their Lives: A Mixed-Methods, Descriptive Analysis of the Men and Women at Work in the Principal's Office
Developing a Psychometrically Sound Assessment of School Leadership: The VAL-ED as a Case Study
Diagnosis and Design for School Improvement: Using a Distributed Perspective to Lead and Manage Change
Diagnosis and Design for School Improvement: Using a Distributed Perspective to Lead and Manage Change
Diagnosis and Design for School Improvement: Using a Distributed Perspective to Lead and Manage Change
Exploring the Nature of Implementation of Principal Professional Development Programs: What are Mechanisms for School Change?
Growing School Networks for Instructional Improvement in Jordan, 2009-2010
How Principals and Peers Influence Teaching and Learning
Instructional Leadership in a Standards-based Reform
Learning depends on your interest, level of knowledge, and understanding: Using Mixed Methods to Study Change in Principal Expertise
Manage “Human Capital” Strategically
Measuring Principals' Content Knowledge of Learning-Centered Leadership
Organizational Routines as Coupling Mechanisms: Policy, School Administration, and the Technical Core
Principals: Human Capital Managers at Every School
Report on the Progress of the IN-STEP Pilot Program, 2008-2009
School Leaders as Learners: Acquiring Expertise for Improving Teaching and Learning
School Leadership and Reform: Case Studies of Philadelphia Principals
School Reform From the Inside Out: Policy, Practice, and Performance
Strategic Management of Human Capital in Education
Systemic Reform in Practice: Merck Institute for Science Education
The Case for District-Based Reform Leading, Building, and Sustaining School Improvement
The Challenge of Sustainable Leadership
The Distributed Leadership Studies: A Case Study of Research in and for School Practice
The Inquiry Based Science and Technology Education Program (IN-STEP): The Evaluation of the First Year
The New Accountability: High Schools and High-stakes Testing
The Practice and Process of Instructional Leadership
The Scope of Principal Efforts to Improve Instruction