This volume provides a set of principles and systematic methods for improvement to help district and school leaders achieve the continuous improvement goals embedded in the Professional Standard for Educational Leadership (PSEL) and the National Educational Leadership Program (NELP) standards.

Erin Anderson is Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Denver, USA.

Kathleen M. W. Cunningham is Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership and Policies at the University of South Carolina, USA.

David H. Eddy-Spicer is Professor of Education in the Department of Leadership, Foundations, and Social Policy at University of Virginia, USA.

Foreword

By series editors Michelle D. Young and Rose M. Ylimaki

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of Action Inventories

Section I: Why Continuous Improvement?

Chapter 1: Ava's Story of Equity-Oriented Improvement

Chapter 2: What Is (and Isn't) Continuous Improvement in Education?

Chapter 3: Enacting Leadership through Continuous Improvement

Chapter 4: Equity-Oriented Continuous Improvement

Section II: How Do We Enact Continuous Improvement?

Chapter 5: Problem Identification and Framing (with Brandi Hinnant-Crawford)

Chapter 6: Data for Improvement and Disciplined Inquiry

Chapter 7: Spread and Scale: The Promise (and Perils) of Networks and Systems Change

Section III: What is Leading Continuous Improvement?

Chapter 8: Building a Toolbox for Leading Continuous Improvement

Chapter 9: Building Organizational Capacity for Continuous Improvement

Chapter 10: Policy Considerations for Continuous Improvement (with David Osworth)

Chapter 11: Conclusion

Appendices

Index