Grounded in the theory of sociologist Karl Weick, this edited volume explores key concepts of educational leadership and organizational learning.

Chapter 1: Educational Leadership, School Organizations and Karl Weick: An Introduction, Bob L. Johnson Jr. and Sharon D. Kruse

Chapter 2: Leadership as 'Disciplined Imagination': On Developing the Cognitively Agile Leader, Bob L. Johnson Jr.

Chapter 3: Weick's Spines of Leaders: Reflections on an Early Essay, Sharon Conley

Chapter 4: Leaders as Bricoleurs: Sensemaking as a Pathway to Skillful Leadership, S. David Brazer

Chapter 5: Where the Action Is: Enactment as the First Movement of Sensemaking, David Eddy-Spicer

Chapter 6: Karl Weick's Organizing, Scott C. Bauer

Chapter 7: Mindful Leadership and High Reliability Schools, Barbara Gilbert

Chapter 8: Past, Present, and Future of Coupling as a Leadership Concept, Angeline K. Spain and Sarah L. Woulfin

Chapter 9: Exploring the Ideas of Coupling and Complexity in Schools, Mel Hawkins and Chris James

Chapter 10: Leading and Organizing in Schools: Connecting the Dots, Charting the Future, Sharon D. Kruse and Bob L. Johnson Jr.

Bob L. Johnson, Jr. is Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy at University of Alabama.

Sharon D. Kruse is Academic Director and Professor of Educational Leadership at Washington State University - Vancouver.