This book returns us to some fundamental questions about the purpose of schools, the nature of learning and the qualities of leadership which make schools authentic places of learning.

John MacBeath is Chair of Educational Leadership at University of Cambridge, UK.

Neil Dempster is Professor in Education and Professional Studies at Griffith University, Australia.

David Frost, Sue Swaffield and Joanne Waterhouse are all members of the Leadership for Learning team at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, UK.

Jorunn Moller is Professor at the University of Oslo, Norway, and George Bagakis is Associate Professor at the University of Patras, Greece.

Introduction 1. What do we know about learning? 2. What we know about Leadership 3. Leadership for Learning 4. Seven countries, eights sites, 24 schools 5. Researching the connections, developing a methodology 6. A focus on learning (Principle 1) 7. An Environment for Learning (Principle 2) 8. A learning dialogue (Principle 3) 9. Shared Leadership (Principle 4) 10. Shared accountability (Principle 5) 11. Leaving a legacy: helping schools to collaborate in a climate of competition 12. Leadership for Learning: towards a practical theory