Principal as a Learning-Leader

Expanding a principal's formal education and training, The Principal as Learning-Leader is a administrator's guide to improving student achievement, showing practitioners how to focus on the individual academic performance of each and every student and to work with the school staff and community to develop a learning culture that supports student success.

Norton and Kelly show current principals how to assess their present behaviors relative to learning leadership. Providing a clear definition of learning leadership and identifying successful practices most commonly implemented by true learning leaders, this book features the administrative tools and accountability strategies that will allow principals to create a culture of learning leadership among all school personnel, which is key to engaging students, and the community, in the learning process.

M. Scott Norton is a former public school teacher, coordinator of curriculum, associate superintendent, and superintendent of schools. He served as professor and vice-chairman of the department of educational administration at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and as professor and chairman of the department of educational administration and policy studies at Arizona State University, where is presently is professor emeritus.

Larry Kelly is a former classroom teacher, assistant principal and principal, assistant superintendent, director of curriculum, and director of staff development. He also directed the Arizona Administrative Assessment Center, sponsored by the National Association of Secondary School Administrators.