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The Instructional Leadership Toolbox: A Handbook for Improving Practice

Item # 091

By Sandra Lee Gupton

Today’s schools require leaders who focus school efforts and resources on what is happening in the classroom: teaching and learning. Dr. Gupton examines the instructional leadership role of the principal, providing school leaders with practical ways to reflect on, determine, and improve their own instructional goals. Using a unique toolbox metaphor, this resource book also offers a variety of helpful "tools" — skills, strategies, and information — drawn from today’s best research and theory in school administration.

While noting the complicated and abstract nature of the qualities of good leadership, The Instructional Leadership Toolbox offers:
- Reader-friendly text, using "tools" as metaphors to represent key instructional leadership skills
- Chapter-opening lists that provide a quick reference to what follows
- "Pointers for the Principal" bulleted at the end of each chapter Question sets for reflective practice
- "Tool Extenders" or suggested resources listed for each chapter for further reading
(Corwin Press, 2003)