Seven Steps to Effective Instructional Leadership
- Elaine K. McEwan - The McEwan-Adkins Group
Seven Steps to Effective Instructional Leadership, Second Edition focuses on seven day-to-day steps that can lead principals and administrators to becoming exemplary leaders, and make a difference in the lives of the students, teachers, and parents in their educational community.
The Second Edition includes the use of standards-based reform as a way for leaders to achieve results with their teachers and students, a revision of the Instructional Checklist, an updated response form that groups the indicators with their respective steps, and a collection of suggested reading material, references and research.
You won't find a more practical, detailed guide to improving school effectiveness than is contained between the covers of this book!
Few books on school leadership have effectively brought together the best of educational theory and practice for school administrators as Elaine McEwan's Seven Steps to Instructional Leadership has.
This is an outstanding book with practical, ready to use suggestions as to how to improve teaching and learning in our schools. As practitioners, the students found the books to be researched-based, easy to absorb, clearly defined traits and descriptors, with stories to bring clarity to the traits, and with meaningful reflection activities to focus on present and future practices.
The book is an excellent resource for self assessment or a tool for gaining feedback from staff.
There is a good balance between the summary of research and references to the aquired wisdom born out of first-hand experience.
