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Handbook of Instructional Leadership

How Successful Principals Promote Teaching and Learning

Second Edition
By: Jo Blase, Joseph Blase

Updated Edition of Bestseller!

Build a learning community of teachers and students through mastering the art of effective leadership!

Successful instructional leaders inspire their staff to develop "professional learning communities" dedicated to effective teaching practices. New to the second edition is an in-depth analysis that shows principals how to achieve this goal. Also new are additional figures, models, and reading lists that enrich the text's original findings.

Time-tested practices of instructional leadership are still central features. Principals can use these keys to success to:

Build teachers' trust through continual communication
Encourage teachers to continue their self-improvement efforts
Motivate teachers with constructive feedback
Promote and participate in reflective practices
Support and encourage teachers' professional development

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Grade Level: PreK-12
ISBN: 9780761931157
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2003
Page Count: 248
Publication date: November 13, 2003

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Updated Edition of Bestseller!

Build a learning community of teachers and students through mastering the art of effective leadership!

The first edition of this classic text was based on a landmark study in which the authors surveyed over 800 K-12 teachers to find how the best principals encourage teacher growth and professionalism. The answers provided conclusive evidence that the most successful principals act as instructional leaders who advocate teacher development that enhances students' learning. The updated and expanded second edition presents new research by the Blases, along with the most recent research and insights to support the text's groundbreaking theory.

Time-tested practices of instructional leadership are still central features. Principals can use these keys to success to:

Build teachers' trust through continual communication
Encourage teachers to continue their self-improvement efforts
Motivate teachers with constructive feedback
Promote and participate in reflective practices
Support and encourage teachers' professional development

Encourage your teachers to be their best through supportive collaboration and communication. Practice real instructional leadership and develop a "professional learning community" in which effective teaching promotes continued learning.

Key features

Biggest seller in instructional leadership
This book is specifically intended for K-12 principals, but will appeal to higher education as well
Written by two of Corwin's bestselling authors
This book is widely known and recognized by instructional leadership experts in the country
Good book for Sage Education to promote in administration

Author(s)

Jo Blase

Jo Blase is a professor of educational administration at the University of Georgia, and a former public school teacher, high school and middle school principal, and director of staff development. She received a Ph.D. in educational administration, curriculum, and supervision in 1983 from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and her research has focused on instructional and transformational leadership, school reform, staff development, and principal-teacher relationships. Through work with the Beginning Principal Study National Research Team, the Georgia League of Professional Schools, and public and private school educators with whom she consults throughout the United States and abroad, she has pursued her interest in preparation for and entry to educational and instructional leadership as it relates to supervisory discourse.

Winner of the W. G. Walker 2000 Award for Excellence for her coauthored article published in the Journal of Educational Administration, the University of Georgia College of Education Teacher Educator Award, the University of Colorado School of Education Researcher/Teacher of the Year, and the American Association of School Administrators Outstanding Research Award, Blase has published in international handbooks and journals such as The Journal of Staff Development, The Journal of Curriculum and Supervision, Educational Administration Quarterly, and The Alberta Journal of Educational Research; her eight book editions include Empowering Teachers (1994, 2000), Democratic Principals in Action (1995), The Fire Is Back (1997), Handbook of Instructional Leadership (1998, 2004), Breaking the Silence (2003), and Teachers Bringing Out the Best in Teachers (2006).

Blase has authored chapters on becoming a principal, school renewal, supervision, and organizational development; her recent research examines the problem of teacher mistreatment. She has published over 90 academic articles, chapters, and books, and she also conducts research on supervisory discourse among physicians as medical educators and consults with physicians in US hospitals and medical centers.

Joseph Blase

Joseph Blase is a professor of educational administration at the University of Georgia. Since receiving his Ph.D. in 1980 from Syracuse University, his research has focused on school reform, transformational leadership, the micropolitics of education, principal-teacher relationships, and the work lives of teachers. His work concentrating on school-level micropolitics received the 1988 Davis Memorial Award given by the University Council for Educational Administration, and his coauthored article published in the Journal of Educational Administration won the W. G. Walker 2000 Award for Excellence. In 1999 he was recognized as an elite scholar, one of the 50 Most Productive and Influential Scholars of Educational Administration in the world. Blase’s books include The Politics of Life in Schools: Power, Conflict, and Cooperation (winner of the 1994 Critic’s Choice Award sponsored by the American Education Studies Association), Bringing Out the Best in Teachers (1994, 2000, 2008); The Micropolitics of Educational Leadership (1995), Empowering Teachers (1994, 2000), Democratic Principals in Action (1995), The Fire Is Back (1997), Handbook of Instructional Leadership (1998, 2004), Breaking the Silence (2003), and Teachers Bringing Out the Best in Teachers (2006). His recent research (coauthored with Jo Blase and Du Fengning, 2008), a national study of principal mistreatment of teachers, appeared in The Journal of Educational Administration. Professor Blase has published over 120 academic articles, chapters, and books.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

Dedication

Part I. The Art and Science of Instructional Leadership

1. The Craft of Teacher Supervision

Our Study

The Instructional Supervision Legacy: From Control to Collaboration

Research on Instructional Supervision

Current Issues in the Field

2. The Conference: Heart of Instructional Supervision

Successful Approaches

Research on Instructional Conferences

Our Findings

Summary

3. Staff Development: Promoting Professional Growth

Research on Teaching and Learning

How Do Teachers Learn? Principles That Shape Staff Development

Our Findings: The Lifelong Study of Teaching and Learning

PSSSSST! Redesign

Tips for Leaders

Summary

4. Reflection: Encouraging Critical Study

The Need for Reflective Practice

Related Research and the Development of Frameworks for Reflective Thinking

Approaches to Reflective Supervision

Our Study: Characteristics of Teacher Reflection

Principal Behaviors Fostering Reflection in Teachers and the Benefits to Teachers

Cognitive Coaching: Bridge to Reflection

Encouraging Reflection: Helpful Reminders

Portrait of a Facilitator for Reflective Practice

Part II. How Supervisors' Behaviors - Positive and Negative - Affect Teachers

5. Being Visible Versus Interrupting and Abandoning

Visibility by Wandering Around

Interruption of Class Instruction

Abandonment

6. Praising Versus Criticizing

Praise

Criticism: More About Control

7. Extending Autonomy Versus Maintaining Control

Extending Autonomy

The Control Orientation and Instructional Leadership

Other Aspects of Control

Goals of Principals' Control Orientation

The Abusive Control Orientation: The Worst of All

Summary

8. Conclusion: The Successful Instructional Leader

What, Then, Is Successful Instructional Leadership or Supervision?

Successful Leadership Vis-à-vis Instruction

Tips for Principals

Linking Instructional Leadership to the Development of a Professional Learning Community

9. Instructional Leadership: A Bridge to the Development of a Professional Learning Community

Recruiting for a Professional Learning Community

Professional Learning Communities: Findings From Research

Suggestions for Expanding Successful Instructional Leadership to Develop a Professional Learning Community

Everyone an Academic Leader

More to Learn: A Final Word

Resource: Research Method and Procedures

References

Index

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