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Foreword | |
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Preface | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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About the Authors | |
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Dedication | |
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The Art and Science of Instructional Leadership | |
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The Craft of Teacher Supervision | |
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Our Study | |
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The Instructional Supervision Legacy: From Control to Collaboration | |
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Research on Instructional Supervision | |
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Current Issues in the Field | |
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The Conference: Heart of Instructional Supervision | |
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Successful Approaches | |
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Research on Instructional Conferences | |
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Our Findings | |
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Summary | |
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Staff Development: Promoting Professional Growth | |
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Research on Teaching and Learning | |
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How Do Teachers Learn? Principles That Shape Staff Development | |
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Our Findings: The Lifelong Study of Teaching and Learning | |
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PSSSSST! Redesign | |
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Tips for Leaders | |
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Summary | |
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Reflection: Encouraging Critical Study | |
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The Need for Reflective Practice | |
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Related Research and the Development of Frameworks for Reflective Thinking | |
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Approaches to Reflective Supervision | |
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Our Study: Characteristics of Teacher Reflection | |
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Principal Behaviors Fostering Reflection in Teachers and the Benefits to Teachers | |
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Cognitive Coaching: Bridge to Reflection | |
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Encouraging Reflection: Helpful Reminders | |
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Portrait of a Facilitator for Reflective Practice | |
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How Supervisors' Behaviors - Positive and Negative - Affect Teachers | |
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Being Visible Versus Interrupting and Abandoning | |
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Visibility by Wandering Around | |
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Interruption of Class Instruction | |
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Abandonment | |
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Praising Versus Criticizing | |
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Praise | |
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Criticism: More About Control | |
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Extending Autonomy Versus Maintaining Control | |
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Extending Autonomy | |
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The Control Orientation and Instructional Leadership | |
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Other Aspects of Control | |
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Goals of Principals' Control Orientation | |
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The Abusive Control Orientation: The Worst of All | |
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Summary | |
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Conclusion: The Successful Instructional Leader | |
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What, Then, Is Successful Instructional Leadership or Supervision? | |
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Successful Leadership Vis-Ã -vis Instruction | |
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Tips for Principals | |
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Linking Instructional Leadership to the Development of a Professional Learning Community | |
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Instructional Leadership: A Bridge to the Development of a Professional Learning Community | |
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Recruiting for a Professional Learning Community | |
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Professional Learning Communities: Findings From Research | |
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Suggestions for Expanding Successful Instructional Leadership to Develop a Professional Learning Community | |
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Everyone an Academic Leader | |
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More to Learn: A Final Word | |
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Resource: Research Method and Procedures | |
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References | |
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Index | |