{"product_id":"leading-with-inquiry-and-action-how-principals-improve-teaching-and-learning-paperback","title":"Leading With Inquiry and Action: How Principals Improve Teaching and Learning - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMatthew C. Militello\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eSharon F. Rallis\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eEllen B. Goldring\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"This essential guide for educational leaders skillfully blends scholarship with practice and integrates theory with real-world examples. Through case studies, the authors show the reader how to develop, support, and improve a collaborative, inquiry-action process for improving teaching and learning. If we are going to have schools that successfully educate all students to high standards, then we need principals who translate the lessons of this book into practice.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e--Andrew Lachman, Executive Director \u003cbr\u003eConnecticut Center for School Change\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEnhance learning with a collaborative, inquiry-based system of leadership!\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith sociopolitical forces prompting calls for school improvement, school leaders look for ways to expand their expertise in instructional leadership and strengthen their role in shaping classroom practice. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLeading With Inquiry and Action\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e presents a systematic, ongoing process for collecting information, making decisions, and taking action to improve instruction and raise student achievement. The authors illustrate this collaborative inquiry-action cycle with a running vignette of an experienced principal and offer questions and exercises to guide individual reflection and group discussion. Thoroughly grounded in research, this book helps administrators: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIdentify areas for instructional improvement\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDetermine community-supported solutions and build stakeholder commitment\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eArticulate an action plan based on multiple data sources\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTake steps that support teacher development \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSystematically evaluate program results\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEducational improvement requires informed leadership. This practical guide provides an efficient and functional framework for transforming current or aspiring principals into inquiry-minded, action-oriented instructional leaders.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMatthew Militello is the Wells Fargo Distinguished Professor in Educational Leadership at East Carolina University. He is currently the principal investigator for a million dollar National Science Foundation grant (NSF# 1738767) bringing computational thinking to music and art classes in rural NC middle schools. Militello is also currently implementing an innovative Ed.D. degree for ECU in Bangkok, Thailand. Militello received his teaching degree from the University of Michigan (B.Ed., 1992), his administrative certification (MSA, 1994) and doctoral degrees (Ph.D., 2004) from Michigan State University. He has held faculty positions at North Carolina State University (2008-2014) and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (2005-2008). Prior to his academic career, Militello was a middle and high public school teacher, assistant principal, and principal in Michigan (1992-2003). Militello has received funding to conduct research from the College Board, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Xian Normal University, as well as a multi-million dollar Race to the Top grant to train school leaders in Northeast North Carolina.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSharon F. Rallis\u003c\/b\u003e is Dwight W. Allen Distinguished Professor of Education Policy and Reform at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Previously, she was professor of education at the University of Connecticut; lecturer on education at Harvard; and associate professor of educational leadership at Peabody College, Vanderbilt University. Her doctorate is from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She has coauthored numerous books, including several on leadership: \u003ci\u003ePrincipals of Dynamic Schools: Taking Charge of Change \u003c\/i\u003e(with Ellen Goldring); \u003ci\u003eDynamic Teachers: Leaders of Change \u003c\/i\u003e(with Gretchen Rossman); \u003ci\u003eLeading Dynamic Schools: How to Create and Implement Ethical Policies \u003c\/i\u003e(with Gretchen Rossman and others); and \u003ci\u003eLeading With Inquiry and Action: How Principals Improve Teaching and Learning \u003c\/i\u003e(with Matthew Militello and Ellen Goldring). Her numerous articles, book chapters, edited volumes, and technical reports address issues of research and evaluation methodology, ethical practice in research and evaluation, education policy and leadership, and school reform.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA past-president of the American Evaluation Association (2005) and current editor of the \u003ci\u003eAmerican Journal of Evaluation\u003c\/i\u003e, Professor Rallis has been involved with education and evaluation for more than three decades. She has been a teacher, counselor, principal, researcher, program evaluator, director of a major federal school reform initiative, and an elected school board member. Currently, her teaching includes courses on inquiry, program evaluation, qualitative methodology, and organizational theory. Her research has focused on the local implementation of programs driven by federal, state, or district policies. As external evaluator or principal investigator (PI), she has studied a variety of domestic and international policy and reform efforts, such as alternative professional development for leaders; collaborations between agencies responsible for educating incarcerated or institutionalized youth; initiatives supporting inclusive education for children and youth with disabilities; local school governance and leadership; labor-management relations in school districts; and leadership development. Her work with students on evaluation and qualitative methodology has taken her as far as Afghanistan, Turkey, and Palestine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEllen B. Goldring \u003c\/strong\u003eis professor of education policy and leadership at Peabody College of Vanderbilt University, where she won the Alexander Heard Distinguished Professor award. Her areas of expertise and research focus on improving schools, with particular attention to educational leadership and access and equity in schools of choice. She is the immediate past coeditor of \u003cem\u003eEducational Evaluation and Policy Analysis\u003c\/em\u003e. She serves on numerous editorial boards, technical panels, and policy forums, and is the coauthor of three books, including \u003cem\u003ePrincipals of Dynamic Schools\u003c\/em\u003e (Corwin Press), as well as hundreds of book chapters and articles. Goldring is currently working on a project funded by the Wallace Foundation to develop and field-test an education leadership assessment system and establish its psychometric properties. She is also conducting experiments to study professional development and performance feedback for school leaders. She is an investigator at the National Center on School Choice and the Learning Sciences Institute at Vanderbilt. Goldring received her PhD from the University of Chicago.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 168\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 9.9 x 7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 01, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50382021034221,"sku":"9781412964142","price":66.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/8918\/9441\/files\/w1_Z_M3w7d9781412964142.webp?v=1785689836","url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/en-au\/products\/leading-with-inquiry-and-action-how-principals-improve-teaching-and-learning-paperback","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}