The Essential School Board Book
Better Governance in the Age of Accountability

Nancy Walser, foreword by Richard F. Elmore

The Essential School Board Book highlights effective practices that are common to high-functioning boards around the country—boards that are working successfully with their superintendents and communities to improve teaching and learning.

Notable Education Book of 2009, American School Board Journal

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Leading for Equity
The Pursuit of Excellence in the Montgomery County Public Schools

Stacey M. Childress, Denis P. Doyle, and David A. Thomas, with a foreword by David Gergen

Leading for Equity tells the compelling story of the Montgomery County (Maryland) Public Schools and its transformation—in less than a decade—into a system committed to breaking the links between race and class and academic achievement.

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Instructional Rounds in Education
A Network Approach to Improving Teaching and Learning

Elizabeth A. City, Richard F. Elmore, Sarah E. Fiarman, and Lee Teitel

Instructional Rounds in Education is intended to help education leaders and practitioners develop a shared understanding of what high-quality instruction looks like and what schools and districts need to do to support it.

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How to Change 5000 Schools
A Practical and Positive Approach for Leading Change at Every Level

Ben Levin

In How to Change 5000 Schools, Ben Levin, former deputy minister of education for the province of Ontario, draws on his experience overseeing major systemwide education reforms in Canada and England to set forth a refreshingly positive, pragmatic, and optimistic approach to leading educational change at all levels.

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Real Leaders, Real Schools
Stories of Success Against Enormous Odds

Gerald C. Leader, with Amy F. Stern

Real Leaders, Real Schools tells the stories of five urban public school principals who led their schools
through profound and transformative changes. In each of these cases, their efforts resulted in dramatic
improvements in student achievement—improvements that occurred within the current environment
of high-stakes tests.

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Spotlight on Leadership and School Change

Edited by Nancy Walser and Caroline Chauncey

Scratch the surface of a successful school and you will find a web of interactions that is the root of its success. Who is it that envisions, inspires, cajoles, and rallies all the various players in and around a school toward any improvement goal? Often it’s a superintendent, a principal, a professor, a special teacher, or a parent. In a word, it’s a leader. This latest volume in the Harvard Education Letter Spotlight Series brings together 20 recent articles that highlight the ways leadership has made a difference in schools.

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A Decade of Urban School Reform
Persistence and Progress in the Boston Public Schools

Edited by S. Paul Reville with Celine Coggins

A Decade of Urban School Reform looks at this critical era in the Boston schools and distills valuable insights and lessons for school leaders and reformers everywhere.

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The 21st-Century Principal
Current Issues in Leadership and Policy

Edited by Milli Pierce and Deborah L. Stapleton

This collection includes leading thinkers in the field of education who aim to inspire new thinking and bold action, all with an eye toward improving public schools and the leadership abilities of those entrusted to lead them.

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