New Explorations for Instructional Leaders

Prof. Haim Shaked is the president of Hemdat College of Education, Sdot Negev, Israel. As a scholar-practitioner with almost twenty years of experience as a school principal, his research focuses on principalship, and in particular, instructional leadership and system thinking in school leadership.

• List of FiguresList of TablesForewordPrefaceAcknowledgmentsSeries Editor’s IntroductionIntroduction: What is Instructional Leadership?Part I: Enablers of Instructional Leadership ApplicationChapter 1. Knowledge Enabling Instructional Leadership ApplicationChapter 2. Relationships Enabling Instructional Leadership ApplicationChapter 3. Systems Thinking as an Enabler of Instructional Leadership ApplicationPart II: Inhibitors of Instructional Leadership ApplicationChapter 4. Perceptions Inhibiting Instructional Leadership ApplicationChapter 5. Clan Culture as an Inhibitor of Instructional Leadership ApplicationChapter 6. Low Power Distance as an Inhibitor of Instructional Leadership ApplicationChapter 7. Inhibitors of Instructional Leadership Application in Rural EducationPart III: Incomplete Application of Instructional LeadershipChapter 8. Principals’ Incomplete Performance of Teacher EvaluationChapter 9. Principals’ Incomplete Assurance of Teachers’ Job SuitabilityChapter 10. Assistant Principals’ Incomplete Application of Instructional LeadershipPart IV: Paradoxical Solutions to Instructional Leadership ApplicationChapter 11. A Paradoxical Approach to Instructional Leadership ApplicationChapter 12.A Paradoxical Approach in Practice: Instructional Leadership Application and Boundary ManagementEpilogue: Answering the “So What?” QuestionAbout the Author

New Explorations for Instructional Leaders: How Principals Can Promote Teaching and Learning Effectively does an exceptionally fine job of illustrating how expert instructional leaders do their work. These illustrations are eminently practical and, most importantly, reproducible in other contexts.