Learning from Leadership Project Kenneth Leithwood, Karen Seashore Louis, Stephen Anderson and Kyla Wahlstrom Executive summary How leadership influences student learning

How leadership influences student learning

Investigating the Links to Improved Student Learning ExEcutivE Summary of rESEarch findingS

5 Collective leadership is linked to student achievement through teacher motivation (strongest) and characteristics of work settings, such as school and district size, or the age of the students taught. Introduction Educational leadership can have strong, positive, although indirect, effects on student learning. The full report of our study—Learning from Leadership: Investigating the Links to I...

Leadership Effects on Student Learning Mediated by Teacher Emotions

School leaders’ influence on student achievement is largely indirect. Using systematic review techniques, this paper assesses the impact that leaders have on their students when they focus their improvement efforts on those teacher emotions or dispositions known to have direct effects on teaching and learning in the classroom. Building on an earlier conceptions of how leadership influences stud...

The Middle Grades Principal: A Research Agenda

Advocates for middle grades education suggest that principals are critical to the implementation of curriculum, instruction, assessment, and organizational structures that meet young adolescent needs. Yet, there is little evidence associating principal practices outlined by middle grades proponents to outcomes or how principals learn the knowledge and practices middle grades advocates propose. ...

How the Leading Student Achievement Project Improves Student Learning: An Evolving Theory of Action