Contents

• Introduction: The Challenges of Learning-focused Leadership in Urban Schools and Districts
• The Study of Leadership for Learning Improvement
• The Practice of Learning-focused Leadership
• Sources and Forms of Leadership Support
• The Web of Support for Learning-focused Leadership Practice
• Concluding Observations: New Work and Continuing Challenges
• Methodological Notes
• Endnotes
• Acknowledgments

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 Learning-Focused Leadership and Leadership Support: Meaning and Practice in Urban Systems

The study findings we are reporting here were assembled patiently and insightfully by a large team of researchers, and we owe them a great deal for all their help in combing the literature, designing the three study strands, carrying out fieldwork and analyses, and writing the three reports on which this summary is based: Chris Alejano, Tino Castañeda, Scott Dareff, Sue Feldman, Tom Halverson, Jennifer Harris, Brenda Hood, Robin LaSota, Chad Lochmiller, Juli Lorton, Morena Newton, Lydia Rainey, Felice Russell, Cate Samuelson, and Ling Yeh. Several other staff were responsible for the detailed record of leadership events and other field data on which certain analyses were based: Chrysan Gallucci, Elizabeth Matson, Liza Pappas, Bethany Rogers, and Judy Swanson. Throughout this project, we benefited from the active guidance of staff at The Wallace Foundation (Lucas Held, Kim Jinnett, Richard Laine, Mary Mattis, Lee Mitgang, Ed Pauly, Jody Spiro, and Jessica Schwartz), whose flexibility, support, and sound critique helped to shape this work into its current form. Finally, we extend our heartfelt thanks to the many educators, too numerous to name, in the Atlanta Public Schools, Lane County 4J School District (Eugene, OR), New York City Department of Education, Norwalk- La Mirada Unified School District, Oakland Unified School District, Portland (OR) Public Schools, and the Springfield (MA) Public Schools, who generously shared their working lives with us across a year and a half.

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