Leading and Supervising Instruction

John C. Daresh is professor of educational leadership at the University of Texas at El Paso. Over the years, he has held faculty or administrative appointments at the University of Cincinnati, The Ohio State University, the University of Northern Colorado, and Illinois State University. He has also worked as a consultant on high school reform and administrator professional development for universities, state departments of education, national and state professional associations, and individual schools and districts across the United States, and also in Barbados, Canada, France, Holland, Israel, Turkey, South Africa, and Taiwan. By far, the bulk of Daresh’s international service has been in the United Kingdom where he served an advisor and trainer for the School Management Task Force that developed and promoted support programs for beginning headteachers, the National College for School Leadership, the Welsh Office of Education, the North West Network for Diploma Development in Cheshire, Manchester Metropolitan University, the University of Lincoln, the University of Hull, CREATE Consultancies, and literally dozens of Local Education Authorities and individual schools across England and Wales.Daresh recently completed three years of service as the lead consultant on principal mentoring programs for the Chicago Public Schools as that megadistrict was faced with the challenge of bringing in mostly inexperienced principals to serve in nearly of the school system’s elementary and high schools.

• PrefaceAbout the AuthorAcknowledgments1. Introduction: Introducing a New View of SupervisionPart I: Views About the Job2. Understanding Approaches to Supervision3. Defining Leadership4. Deciphering What it Means to “Be in Charge”5. Dealing With Conflict EffectivelyPart II: Views About the People Who Make Up a School6. Re-visiting Who Teachers Are and What They Do7. Exploring the How and Why of Teacher Evaluation8. Defining “Effective” Leadership Practice9. The Purpose of SchoolingIndex

"Demonstrates how school leaders can achieve strong instructional leadership while placing student learning in the foreground."