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 * SYSTEM CHANGE & LEADERSHIP**

Professional Strategies to Improve Student Achievement
 * [[image:http://store.tcpress.com/media/0807746797.gif]] || Building School-Based Teacher Learning Communities:

Milbrey W. McLaughlin and Joan E. Talbert - Series on School Reform Pub Date: February 2006, 160 pages ISBN 0807746797 || Takes a comprehensive look at the problem of improving the quality of teaching across the United States, based on evidence and examples from the authors’ nearly two decades of research. Connecting People, Purpose, and Practice
 * Demonstrates how and why school-based teacher learning communities are bottom-line requirements for improved instruction.
 * Outlines the resources and supports needed to build and sustain a long-term school-based teacher professional community.
 * Discusses the nature of high-quality professional development to support learning and changes in teaching.
 * Details the roles and responsibilities of policymakers at all levels of the school system. ||
 * [[image:http://store.tcpress.com/media/0807747106.gif]][[image:http://store.tcpress.com/images/space.gif width="1" height="1"]] || Cultivating Leadership in Schools, Second Edition

Gordon Donaldson, Jr. Foreword by Michael Fullan Pub Date: June 2006, 224 pages ISBN: 0807747106  || An excellent resource for aspiring and experienced instructional leaders, this popular text reveals a practical model of leadership for teacher leaders, principals, and school teams. It honors the working realities of schools and highlights interpersonal and intrapersonal skills and qualities essential to successful school leadership. This completely updated Second Edition features: * Greater emphasis on how the roles of formal and informal teacher leaders and principals can complement one another in shaping strong leadership for a school.
 * Integration of current research and thinking to support the book’s relational model of leadership (e.g., relational trust; learning communities; emotional intelligence).
 * More graphic summaries to assist leadership teams, classes, and individual readers in applying the Three Stream Leadership Model to their own schools and work.
 * More illustrative examples showing the Model at work. ||