Leadership in Diverse Learning Contexts

Foreword.- Contributors.- Part I: Distributed Leadership: Theory and Practice.- Distributed Leadership and Context:  Theory and Practice Dimensions in Systems, Schools and Communities; Greer Johnson, Neil Dempster  and Elizabeth Wheeley.- Part II: Leadership and Systems.- Turnaround school leadership: from paradigms to promises; Ira Bogotch, Daniel Reyes-Guerra and Jennifer Freeland.- Examining policy intersections: democracy, technologies and the implications for school leadership; Kathryn Moyle.- Leadership Learning:  Blended Power; Neil Dempster.- Multi-level leadership for assessment for learning, and the potential of critical friendship; Sue Swaffield.- Utilising a Leadership Blueprint to build the capacity of schools to achieve outcomes for students with Autism Spectrum Disorder; Amanda Webster.- Leadership, learning and change in post-conflict schools:  Much ado about a lot; Simon Clarke  and Tom O’Donoghue.- School leadership for learning and change: Progress of an Asian agenda; Allan Walker and Philip Hallinger.- Part III: Leadership in Schools.- Leading with Moral Purpose: Teacher leadership in action; Joan Conway and Dorothy Andrews.- To Lead or not to Lead:  That is the question; Susan Lovett.- Leadership in Assessment in an Environment of External Accountability: Developing an Assessment for Learning Culture; J. Joy Cumming, Graham Maxwell and Claire M. Wyatt-Smith.- Shifting practices and frames: literacy, learning and computer games; Catherine Beavis and Joanna O’Mara.- Distributed leadership policies and practices:  Striving for educational equity in high poverty contexts; Parlo Singh and Kathryn Glasswell.- Curriculum Leadership: Reforming and Reshaping Successful Practice in Remote and Regional Indigenous Education; Robyn Jorgensen.- The impact of interaction and language on leading learning in Indigenous classrooms; Rod Gardner and Ilana Mushin.- Cogenerative Dialogue for Collective Curriculum Leadership; Wolff-Michael Roth and Michele Salles el Kadri.- Part IV: Leadership in Communities.- Developing Student Leadership Through Peer Teaching in Schools; Bruce Burton.- Conceptions of learning leadership in remote Indigenous communities: A distributive approach; Bev Flückiger and Helen Klieve.- Capacity Building for Parental Engagement in Reading: A Distributed Leadership Approach between Schools and Indigenous Communities; Greer Johnson and Lynanne McKenzie.- The difficult return: supporting returning veterans through an arts-based social leadership program; Michael Balfour.- Part V: A Synthesis of Ideas.- Leading Schools in the 21st Century:  Careful Driving in the Fast Lane; Tony Townsend.