This volume from the Leadership for Learning series outlines best practices for sustaining improvement and demonstrates how to set goals, develop trust, and build a culture of responsibility.

Mark A. Smylie is professor of education emeritus in the Department of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago and visiting professor in the Department of Leadership, Policy, and Organizations at Peabody College, Vanderbilt University. Before his work in higher education, Smylie was a high school social studies teacher. Smylie served as secretary-treasurer of the National Society for the Study of Education and as a director of the Consortium on Chicago School Research at the University of Chicago. His work has appeared in the American Education Research Journal, Educational Researcher, Educational Administration Quarterly, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Educational Policy, Journal of School Leadership, and Review of Research in Education. Smylie has worked with schools, school districts, and school administrator and teacher professional associations through joint projects, advising, and school leader development activities. He has served on advisory boards of numerous regional and national professional and policy organizations concerned with education generally and leadership in particular. Smylie's research focuses on school organization, leadership, and change.

Foreword by Willis D. Hawley and E. Joseph Schneider
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
1. The Context and Call for Continuous Improvement
2. The Meaning of Continuous Improvement with Kelly Hallberg
3. Evidence of the Effectiveness of Continuous Improvement
4. Processes of Continuous Improvement
5. Organizational Design for Continuous Improvement
6. Continuous Improvement "In Action" with Cristal Mendlen
7. Becoming a Continuously Improving School
Endnotes
References
Index