Leadership and Learning

Jan Robertson is Head of Department, London Centre for Leadership in Learning, Institute of Education. Dr. Helen Timperley is Professor Emeritus of Education at The University of Auckland. Her extensive research experience has focused on how to promote professional and leadership learning in schools in ways that make a difference to outcomes for those student learners who are currently underserved by the system. She has numerous research articles in both these areas published in international journals, has spoken at a range of invited seminars and undertaken consultancies in Europe, Canada and Australia. She has written six books on her specialty research areas with many translated into a range of languages. Most of her published and consultancy work has focused on school and system change through professional learning, professional conversations with impact and evaluative thinking in educational innovation.

′"Leadership for what?" ask the editors of this important new book - finally acknowledging that leadership′s most important attribute is knowing where you are heading. Beginning to question the bedevilling assumption that school success is all about exams, this book is a significant step on the road from 19th to 21st century education′ - Professor Guy Claxton, author of ′What′s the Point of School?′

• PART ONE: EXPLORING MODELS FOR LEADERSHIP AND IMPROVEMENTEstablishing Platforms for Leadership and Learning - Helen Timperley and Jan RobertsonThe Layering of Leadership - Christopher DayHow Effective Leaders Reduce Educational Disparities - Russell BishopLeadership and Student Learning: What Works and How - Kenneth LeithwoodLeadership and Student Learning Outcomes - Philip Hallinger and Ronald H HeckConnecting Leadership and Learning - Geoff SouthworthRealizing the Potential of System Leadership - David HopkinsPART TWO: CHALLENGES IN DEVELOPING LEARNING-FOCUSED LEADERSHIP Leading Professional Learning Communities - Louise StollLeading Teachers′ Professional Learning - Helen TimperleyLeadership and Student Outcomes: Are Secondary Schools Unique? - Viviane M.J. Robinson, Linda Bendikson and John HattieInstructional Leadership: Teacher Level - Helen Wildy and Simon ClarkePART THREE: BROADENING IDEAS OF LEARNING AND KNOWLEDGE DEVELOPMENTA Distributed Perspective on Learning Leadership - James Spillane et alLeadership and Diversity - Marianne ColemanEducators as Knowledge Leaders - Lorna Earl and Lynne Hannay Why the Study of Emotion Matters in School Leadership - Megan CrawfordPartnership in Leadership and Learning - Jan RobertsonFusion and the Future of Leadership - Andy Hargreaves