Effective school leadership can have a transformative impact on the lives of students. In Leadership Development on a Large Scale, educational leaders and policy makers will gain evidence-based guidance for sustaining improved leadership and scaling up existing leadership initiatives across school districts and states. Written by one of the foremost scholars in the field, this book draws lessons from one of the most successful long-term educational leadership studies ever conducted to provide actionable advice and specific strategies. Learn how to: Understand the evidence base to design effective leadership development programs and initiatives; Support instructional leaders in leading collaborative inquiry approaches to classroom pedagogy to help teachers convey complex ideas to students; Establish Principal Learning Teams to help guide school-wide and districtwide decision-making; By drawing on the numerous cases and stories outlined in Leithwood′s book, educators will gain a deep understanding of how to take leadership development to the next level and prepare the next wave of talented school leaders for success.

The leading student achievement : networks for learning project (LSA) -- Evidence used by LSA to learn its way forward -- Building on a conception of effective leadership -- Perspectives on LSA's approach to leadership development -- Collaborative inquiry processes as a foundational belief -- Key learning conditions as a subject for collaborative inquiry -- LSA's theory of action and how it was developed -- Knowledge building/knowledge creation : education for a knowledge society -- Creating useful knowledge about effective leadership networks -- Insights about leading large-scale leadership development project.