“Leadership for Learning” in Practice and Scholarship: What Exactly Are We Talking About?

• In Event: Roundtable Session 10

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

This session creates dialogue concerning the framing and findings of two national investigations of learning-focused leadership, which sought different ways to illuminate “leadership for learning”. Acknowledging the wide and often fuzzy use of this concept across the last decade of leadership research, the session seeks greater conceptual clarity and focus on who and what is being examined in learning-focused leadership research and on underlying ideas about learning and leadership.

Sub Unit

• Division A - Administration / Section 1: Leadership

Chair

• Michael S. Knapp, University of Washington

Papers

• Learning-Focused Leadership in Action in Urban Schools and School Systems - Michael S. Knapp, University of Washington

• Linking Leadership in Schools, Districts, and State Systems to Student Learning - Karen Seashore Louis, University of Minnesota

• Commentary 1: Leading for—and Through—the Professional Learning of Adult Educators - Angela Breidenstein, Trinity University

• Commentary 2: Leading as Mutual Influence on Change in Schools’ Improvement Capacity - Philip Hallinger, The Hong Kong Institute of Education