Leadership in Smart Systems: VUE Number 25, Fall 2009
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> Description of CORRE, PDFs of reports on findings from different sites
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> Description of study, PDFs of case studies and preview of findings
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> Description, PDFs of report and tool
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> Description, findings, full text PDF
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Burch, P., and J. P. Spillane. 2003. “Subject Matter and Elementary School Leadership: How Leaders Views of Mathematics and Literacy Shape and Are Shaped by Work on Reform,” Elementary Schools Journal 103, no. 5:356–398.
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Diamond, J. B. 2007. “Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Rethinking the Connection between High-Stakes Testing Policy and Classroom Instruction,” Sociology of Education 80, no. 29:285–313.
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Firestone, W. A., and C. Martinez. 2007. “Districts, Teacher Leaders, and Distributed Leadership: Changing Instructional Practice,” Leadership and Policy in Schools 6:3–35.
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> Description and PDF
Fullan, M. 2001. The New Meaning of Educational Change. New York: Teachers College Press.
> Reviews and ordering information
Garvey, J. 2009. Are New York City’s Public Schools Preparing Students for Success in College? Providence, RI: Brown University, Annenberg Institute for School Reform.
> Report PDF
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> Abstract and PDF
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Hargreaves, A., and D. Shirley. 2009. The Fourth Way: The Inspiring Future for Educational Change. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin.
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Hayton, P., and J. Spillane. 2008. “Professional Community or Communities? School Subject Matter and Elementary School Teachers’ Work Environments.” In Leadership for Learning: International Perspectives, edited by J. MacBeath and Y. C. Chen, pp. 59–71. Rotterdam, Netherlands: SENSE Publishers.
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> Preface, chapter one, and ordering information
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> Description, findings, summary and case study PDF
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> Description, findings, summary and case study PDF
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> Reviews, sample chapter, and ordering information
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> Description, findings, summary, case study PDF
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> Online article, full text PDF
Spillane, J. P. 2006. Distributed Leadership. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
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Spillane, J. 2005. “Primary School Leadership Practice: How the Subject Matters.” School Leadership and Management 25, no. 4:383–397.
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Spillane, J. P., R. Halverson, and J. B. Diamond. 2004. “Towards a Theory of Leadership Practice: A Distributed Perspective,” Journal of Curriculum Studies 36, no. 1:3–34.
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Spillane, J. P., R. Halverson, and J. B. Diamond. 2001. “Investigating School Leadership Practice: A Distributed Perspective,” Educational Researcher 30, no. 3:23–28.
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Spillane, J. P., B. Hunt, and K. Healy. Forthcoming. “Managing and Leading Elementary Schools: Attending to the Formal and Informal Organization,” International Studies in Educational Administration.
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