Leading Schools to Learn, Grow, and Thrive provides a unique approach to preparing prospective education leaders by combining theory, research, and practice.

S. David Brazer is Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at Stanford University, USA.

Scott C. Bauer is Professor of Education and Associate Dean of Advanced Education and Doctoral Programs at the University of Colorado, Denver, USA.

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

ContentsList of Figures

List of Tables

Preface

Acknowledgments

Part 1 Understanding Organizations

Chapter 1 Understanding Schools and Districts as Organizations

Chapter 2 Schools as Open Systems: There's a Whole World Out There

Chapter 3 School Leadership as Organized Anarchy: Taming the Untamable Beast

Chapter 4 Organizational Learning

Chapter 5 What Do Leaders Do?

Part 2 Leading Schools

Chapter 6 Transformational Leadership and Change

Chapter 7 Leading Instruction

Chapter 8 Leading With Others: Distributed Leadership and its Conceptual Ancestors

Chapter 9 Epilogue: Where We Stand at This Moment