Kenneth Leithwood - Linking Leadership to Student Learning

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Leithwood, Kenneth A.

Linking leadership to student learning / Kenneth Leithwood, Karen Seashore Louis; with contributions from Stephen E. Anderson... [et al.].

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-470-62331-2 (pbk.)

1. Educational leadership. 2. School management and organization. 3. Achievement motivation in children. I. Louis, Karen Seashore. II. Anderson, Stephen E. III. Title.

LB2806.L3854 2011

371.200973dc23

2011032062

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This book is based on the evidence collected as part of a large, Wallace Foundationfunded research project. Without the careful reviews and long-standing support for that research provided by our Wallace Foundation project officers, Dr. Mary Mattis and Dr. Edward Pauly, this book would not be the thorough and comprehensive document that we believe has been produced. We value, in particular, all of the feedback that Mary gave us as we moved into our analysis phase, and her skill at creating consensus about what was needed, both from the perspective of the Wallace Foundation and from the members of our research team.

This book would still be hidden somewhere in our computers if it were not for Gabrielle de Montmollin, whose editorial assistance and general ability to keep things rolling in a large and complex project have been valuable assets since this project began in 2003. A number of people who are not primary chapter authors made substantial contributions to the research in a number of ways. At the University of Minnesota, a very special thanks goes to Dr. Michael Michlin and Judy Meath, who assisted in the development of our sample and of state and local databases, coordinated all survey data collection activities, and provided support for data analysis, and also served as team leaders for site visits. Dr. Beverly Dretzke provided excellent and thoughtful work in conducting path analysis of our data. Additional support has been provided by Dr. Judy Hornbacher and Diane Cirksena, whose expertise in on-site data collection was invaluable. Graduate research assistants at the University of Minnesota have been essential partners as well in the data collection and analysis activities; they include Sarah Berman-Young, Chad Schmidt, Monica Jacob, and Sarah Frederickson. Andrea Peterson provided excellent administrative and technical support for a myriad of clerical and computer-related tasks throughout the entire project. At the University of Toronto, Dr. Suzanne Stiegelbauer played a substantial role in site-visit data collection and analysis in Texas and New Mexico. Doris Jantzi, Robin Sacks, and Jing Ping Sun contributed significantly to the analysis of our survey results. We are also grateful to professor Stephen Jacobson (SUNY) for his help with first-round site visits in New York. Finally, successful execution of the site visits would not have possible without the assistance of several research assistants from the University of Toronto, including Leanne Foster, Carol Brayman, Carol Slater, and Joelle Rodway Macri. In the end, we produced a long and scholarly document, which was ably edited by Dr. Richard Western.