The Leadership Network
An outstanding site from the Treasury Board of Canada covering a wide range of topics on leadership practice and theory.

Dialog on Leadership
A series of interviews and meetings which espoused a new view of leadership and knowledge. It emphasises awareness as the driver for high performance and creativity within and around social systems.

The National College for School Leadership
This link provides a gateway to a range of articles, bibliograThe National College for School Leadership phies and research on educational leadership. You will find papers here by key thinkers such as Fullan, Hargreaves, Fink, Myers, Davies

Developing Teacher Leadership
Teachers' daily contact with students, other teachers, and the instructional program places them in a unique position to influence school reform efforts. Principals who are comfortable with teacher leaders can provide the encouragement, opportunities, and support teachers need to become leaders.

Breaking Ranks in Action Part 1
This first in a two-part series examines how educators have overcome obstacles to school improvement and implemented recommendations in "Breaking Ranks" governing technology, personalization, and organization and time. Implementation often falters due to large enrollments, time factors, school goals, and traditional views of teacher roles, responsibilities, and professional development.

Breaking Ranks in Action Part 2
In part two of this two-part series, principals explore the necessity of overcoming obstacles to implementing the recommendations presented in "Breaking Ranks" focusing on the strategies for improving professional development, coherency, and leadership.

The Intelligent School
MacGilchrist, Myers and Reed have identified nine intelligences which they argue are used by schools in addressing simultaneously the core business of learning, teaching, effectiveness and improvement.

Voices from the Field
The purpose of this paper was to present issues from the perspective of teachers experiencing change, challenges and growth as education reform took place.

Jim Collins on Leadership
Jim Collins has studied companies; how they grow, how they attain superior performance, and how good companies can become great companies.

Tipu Ake: A Leadership Model for Innovative Organisations, New Zealand
Self-help resources for leadership development; organizational transformation and sustainability which share the Tipu Ake Lifestyle model.

Report on School leadership commissioned by the National College for School Leadership (NCSL). [Adobe, 42pp]
The research covers theoretical literature, to show how leadership has been conceptualized, and empirical literature to demonstrate whether and how the research evidence supports the concepts of school leadership.

The Saskatchewan Principalship: A Review of the Literature
This review looks at the changing role of the principal, the supervision and professional development of staff, the exercise of instructional leadership, the application of managerial skills, the nurturance of school climate and the development of effective relations with the community.

Facilitative Leadership - Leadership for Restructuring or Systemic Change
Leadership is essential to the process of holistic school change.

Management of Information Organizations
A look at leadership in terms of: The Attribution Theory, The Charismatic Leadership, Transformational Leadership.

NERL Leadership Materials
A series of articles developed for leadership; effective meetings, group improvement, problems and planning decisions

OA Guide to Group Dynamics & Leadership
Leadership is looked at in Outdoor Education; The functions of a Leader and Situational Leadership.

1999 ASPA Conference - Tony Townsend's paper
Townsend argues that an education charter for the third Millennium should be based on:
Education for survival, Understanding our place in the world, Understanding community, Understanding our personal responsibility.

Leadership and the New Technologies Summer Institutes- Professional Development for Education and Technology
Support for school and district leaders responsible for planning and implementing the use of technology to enhance teaching and learning in their schools.

The Role of Leadership and Professional Development in a Design Approach to School Development, Hill & Crevola, Melbourne University
The classroom program, the intervention, the ongoing assessment and monitoring, the beliefs and understandings, the leadership and coordination, the professional development, the expectations and targets, the school and class organisation and the home/school/community links have all impacted upon the students learning outcomes.

The Role of Leadership in Sustaining School Reform
Five sets of responses to what a leader is, was categorised; Partnership and Voice, Vision and Values, Knowledge and Daring, Savvy and Persistence, Personal Qualities