Mapping Leadership

RICHARD HALVERSON is a Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis in the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education. Rich co-directs the Wisconsin Collaborative Education Research Network and the Comprehensive Assessment of Leadership for Learning project, and was a co-founder and co-director of the Games + Learning + Society Research Center. He is a former high school teacher and administrator. He is co-author (with Allan Collins) of Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology. CAROLYN KELLEY is Senior Associate Dean for Academic Programs in the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the Jim and Georgia Thompson Distinguished Professor of Education in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis. She co-directs the Comprehensive Assessment of Leadership for Learning project, and is co-author (with Jim Shaw) of Learning First!.

• About the Authors xiAcknowledgments xiiiPrologue 1Chapter 1 Distributed Leadership in Action 9Leadership and Span of Control 12Leader of Leaders 14Distributed Leadership in Action 14Tasks versus Skills 17Comprehensive Assessment of Leadership for Learning 18Chapter 2 Mapping School Leadership: Research Base and Domains 23Knowledge Base for the CALL Domains 25CALL Domains of School Leadership Practice 28The CALL Survey in Action 34Chapter 3 Domain 1: Focus on Learning 391.1 Maintaining a Schoolwide Focus on Learning 431.2 Recognition of Formal Leaders as Instructional Leaders 461.3 Collaborative Design of Integrated Learning Plan 481.4 Providing Appropriate Services for Students Who Traditionally Struggle 50Putting It All Together to Focus on Learning 53Chapter 4 Domain 2: Monitoring Teaching and Learning 59A Brief History of Accountability and Schools: Emergence of a New Model of Instructional Leadership 62Building Information Ecologies to Support Teaching and Learning 662.1 Formative Evaluation of Student Learning 672.2 Summative Evaluation of Student Learning 712.3 Formative Evaluation of Teaching 732.4 Summative Evaluation of Teaching 77Putting It All Together: Information Ecologies for Schools 80Chapter 5 Domain 3: Building Professional Community 87Designing Professional Community 913.1 Collaborative Schoolwide Focus on Problems of Teaching and Learning 923.2 Professional Learning 933.3 Socially Distributed Leadership 963.4 Coaching and Mentoring 97Putting It All Together: Design as a Model for Building Professional Community 99Lessons for Building Professional Community in Schools 101Chapter 6 Domain 4: Acquiring and Allocating Resources 1074.1 Personnel Practices 1114.2 Structuring and Maintaining Time 1154.3 School Resources Focus on Student Learning 1184.4 Integrating External Expertise into the School Instructional Program 1204.5 Coordinating and Supervising Relations with Families and External Communities 122Putting It All Together: Acquiring and Allocating Resources 124Chapter 7 Domain 5: Establishing a Safe and Effective Learning Environment 131The Practices That Matter to Develop Safe and Effective Learning Environments 1345.1 Clear, Consistent, and Enforced Expectations for Student Behavior 1355.2 Clean and Safe Learning Environment 1415.3 Support Services for Students Who Traditionally Struggle 142Putting It All Together: Innovative Practices for Building Safe and Effective Learning Environments 148Chapter 8 Mapping Leadership Practice 157Mapping Leadership Practice 163Using the CALL Map 169Charting the Course to Improved Teaching and Learning 171Appendix A CALL Research Publications 173Appendix B Observations about Some Differences in CALL Results between Secondary and Elementary Schools 175Appendix C Description of the CALL Research and Validation Project 181Appendix D CALL Domains 193References 195Index 205