`Strategic Leadership and Educational Improvement contains essays that will be invaluable to those seeking succinct guides to the subtle elements of school improvement' - Tim Brighouse, Times Educational Supplement

`This is a wonderful book. The editors have managed to balance powerful authors in an impressive survey in current thinking about education. It should certainly rate multiple copies in most libraries' - School Leadership & Management

This volume focuses on strategic leadership, the impact of external and internal factors on organizational leadership, and how effective educational leaders manage the competing demands of autonomy and accountability. The book deals with the challenges of managing the boundaries between educational organizations and their external contexts, and reconciling environmental expectations and internal priorities.

The editors believe that strategic understanding and involvement should be a central concern for all organization members and that, in order to be effective, strategic planning needs the commitment and ownership of all staff, not just senior managers. The book covers:

- political, social and ideological contexts

- governance and links with external stakeholders

- marketing

- organizational collaboration, competition, partnership

- external/internal culture,

and internal structures

- strategic leadership and managing change

· organizational effectiveness, accountability and evaluation

This book is suitable for providers and students in higher educational institutions postgraduate level courses in educational management and leadership development provision for Headteachers induction programmes, NPQH and LPSH. It is also suitable for use on short courses and for practitioners occupying or aspiring to leadership roles in schools, colleges and other educational organizations.

Strategic Leadership Challenges - Margaret Preedy, Ron Glatter and Christine Wise
PART ONE: EXTERNAL INFLUENCES
Future Schools and Leaders¿ Values - Kenneth Leithwood, Doris Jantzi and Rosanne Steinback
Conceptualizing Educational Reform - Benjamin Levin
Governance, Autonomy and Accountability in Education - Ron Glatter
Uses and Abuses of Quality - Mike Bottery
The Need for a Civic Version
PART TWO: SOCIETAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURES
Developing Comparative and International Educational Leadership and Management - Clive Dimmock and Allan Walker
A Cross-Cultural Model
School Culture and Improvement - Louise Stoll
Helping Practitioners Explore Their School¿s Culture - David Hargreaves
PART THREE: STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP AND MANAGING CHANGE
Strategy, External Relations and Marketing - Nick Foskett
Understanding Strategy Development - Gerry Johnson and Kevan Scholes
Strategic Analysis - Brent Davies and Linda Ellison
Obtaining the Data and Building a Strategic View
Planning, Doing and Coping with Change - Michael Fullan
Fair Furlong Primary School - Agnes McMahon
Five Years On
PART FOUR: EDUCATIONAL IMPROVEMENT
Reform, Accountability and Strategic Choice in Education - Tim Simkins
Schools Effectiveness and Improvement - Peter Mortimore and John MacBeath
The Story So Far
School Effectiveness and School Improvement - Janet Ouston
Critique of a Movement
Effectiveness and Improvement - Paul Martinez
School and College Research Compared
Self-Evaluation in European Schools - John MacBeath with Michael Schratz, Denis Meuret and Lars Jakobsen
Case Examples