How School Leaders Contribute to Student Success

1. Introduction
Kenneth Leithwood, Jingping Sun, Katina Pollock

Part I. The Nature of Successful Leadership

2. A Model of Successful School Leadership from the International Successful School Principalship Project
David Gurr

3. The Ontario Leadership Framework: Successful School Leadership Practices and Personal Leadership Resources
Kenneth Leithwood

Part II. The Rational Path

4. Leadership and Learning: Conceptualizing Relations Between School Administrative Practice and Instructional Practice
James Spillane

5. Effects of Distributed Leadership on School Academic Press and Student Achievement
John Malloy, Kenneth Leithwood

6. Towards Sustaining Levels of Reflective Learning: How Do Transformational Leadership, Task Interdependence, and Self-Efficacy Shape Teacher Learning in Schools?
Arnoud Oude Groote Beverborg, Peter J. C. Sleegers, Maaike D. Endedijk, Klaas Veen

Part III. The Emotional Path

7. Leadership Effects on Student Learning Mediated by Teacher Emotions
Jingping Sun, Kenneth Leithwood

8. Principals, Trust, and Cultivating Vibrant Schools
Megan Tschannen-Moran, Christopher R. Gareis

9. Generation X School Leaders as Agents of Care: Leader and Teacher Perspectives from Toronto, New York City and London
Karen Edge, Katherine Descours, Keren Frayman

Part IV. The Organizational Path

10. Complexity and Volume: An Inquiry into Factors That Drive Principals’ Work
Katina Pollock, Fei Wang, David Cameron Hauseman

11. Creating Communities of Professionalism: Addressing Cultural and Structural Barriers
Joseph Murphy

12. Effects of Principal Professional Orientation Towards Leadership, Professional Teacher Behavior, and School Academic Optimism on School Reading Achievement
Roxanne Mitchell, John Tarter

13. Leading Teacher Learning in China: A Mixed Methods Study of Successful School Leadership
Shengnan Liu, Philip Hallinger

Part V. The Family Path

14. Effects of Family Educational Cultures on Student Success at School: Directions for Leadership
William H. Jeynes

15. Changing the Educational Culture of the Home to Increase Student Success at School
Kenneth Leithwood, Penny Patrician

16. Conclusion
Kenneth Leithwood, Jingping Sun, Katina Pollock

Keywords: Education, Administration, Organization and Leadership, Schools and Schooling, Higher Education, Learning & Instruction