Handbook of Instructional Leadership: How Really Good Principals Promote Teaching and Learning - Hardcover

Blase, Rebajo R.; Blase, Joseph

9780803965539: Handbook of Instructional Leadership: How Really Good Principals Promote Teaching and Learning

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0803965532 ISBN 13: 9780803965539

Publisher: Corwin, 1998

Based on a comprehensive description of how instructional supervision is actually practised and how it affects teachers, the authors' research shows effective instructional supervision to have such positive impacts on teaching and learning (and the lack of it to have such negative impacts) that no-one who reads this book will be able to justify the relegation of instructional leadership to the margins of educational administration.

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Review:

"Should be read by all practicing principals! An extraordinarily perceptive account of how a principal can influence teachers and make an impact on school culture."

(Richard R. Tranter)

"A treasure trove of knowledge about instructional leadership. Rich descriptions bring to life such concepts as inquiry, reflection, collaboration, empowerment, and learning community. The authors enable the reader to encounter the spirit of schools where these ideas have become a reality."

(Stephen P. Gordon)

About the Author:

Jo Blase is a professor of educational administration at the University of Georgia, and a former public school teacher, high school and middle school principal, and director of staff development. She received a Ph.D. in educational administration, curriculum, and supervision in 1983 from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and her research has focused on instructional and transformational leadership, school reform, staff development, and principal-teacher relationships. Through work with the Beginning Principal Study National Research Team, the Georgia League of Professional Schools, and public and private school educators with whom she consults throughout the United States and abroad, she has pursued her interest in preparation for and entry to educational and instructional leadership as it relates to supervisory discourse.

Winner of the W. G. Walker 2000 Award for Excellence for her coauthored article published in the Journal of Educational Administration, the University of Georgia College of Education Teacher Educator Award, the University of Colorado School of Education Researcher/Teacher of the Year, and the American Association of School Administrators Outstanding Research Award, Blase has published in international handbooks and journals such as The Journal of Staff Development, The Journal of Curriculum and Supervision, Educational Administration Quarterly, and The Alberta Journal of Educational Research; her eight book editions include Empowering Teachers (1994, 2000), Democratic Principals in Action (1995), The Fire Is Back (1997), Handbook of Instructional Leadership (1998, 2004), Breaking the Silence (2003), and Teachers Bringing Out the Best in Teachers (2006).

Blase has authored chapters on becoming a principal, school renewal, supervision, and organizational development; her recent research examines the problem of teacher mistreatment. She has published over 90 academic articles, chapters, and books, and she also conducts research on supervisory discourse among physicians as medical educators and consults with physicians in US hospitals and medical centers.

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