» Annenberg Institute for School Reform

Tools for School Improvement Planning Website
This web site contains observation protocols, focus group samples and questions, surveys, questionnaires, and other techniques to help practitioners at all levels examine specific school-improvement concerns.

» Institute for Educational Leadership

School Leadership for the 21st Century Initiative Publications (includes reports on Urban School Leadership, State Leadership, Teacher Leadership, District Leadership, and Principal Leadership)
This set of publications includes reports on state leadership, district leadership, principal leadership, urban school leadership, and teacher leadership.

» KnowledgeWorks Foundation

Leadership in Education: A Handbook for School Superintendents and Teacher Union Presidents
This handbook contains practical information and advice to help superintendents and teacher organization presidents manage their relationships and provides a basis for discussion and reflection across the traditional lines of labor management.

» Mid-Continent Research for Education and Learning

Resources for Practitioners: Balanced Leadership Consortia (professional development program)
This set of workshops and resources from MCREL provides state education agencies, school districts, and school administrators intensive, ongoing professional development aimed at raising student achievement.

» Institute for Educational Leadership

Coalition for Community Schools – Growing Community Schools: The Role of Cross–Boundary Leadership
This paper profiles eleven communities where leaders from schools, cities, and counties are working together to help community schools grow.

» KnowledgeWorks Foundation

Leadership in Education: A Handbook for School Superintendents and Teacher Union Presidents
This handbook contains practical information and advice to help superintendents and teacher organization presidents manage their relationships and provides a basis for discussion and reflection across the traditional lines of labor management.

» Mid-Continent Research for Education and Learning

Resources for Practitioners: Balanced Leadership Consortia (professional development program)
This set of workshops and resources from MCREL provides state education agencies, school districts, and school administrators intensive, ongoing professional development aimed at raising student achievement.

» National Association of Secondary School Principals

Breaking Ranks II
Breaking Ranks II engages principals, teacher leaders, and the entire school community in reforming the American high school into an academically rigorous, personalized learning environment that is improved through collaborative leadership. Breaking Ranks II provides high school principals and their leadership teams with illustrations of possible entry points or areas in which to begin reform, strategies for implementing successful reform, and profiles of successes, challenges, and results of implementation.

Breakthrough High Schools
Breakthrough High Schools is a project that recognizes remarkable high-minority, high-poverty schools from around the country for demonstrating significant increases in student achievement, as well as high graduation and college admissions rates.

Creating a Culture of Literacy: A Guide for Middle and High School Principals
This report is designed to help school leaders use research on best literacy practices to create a well-defined intervention plan that not will improve the literacy and long-range academic success of all students by enhancing their chances for postsecondary education and future employability.

» Institute for Educational Leadership

School Leadership for the 21st Century Initiative Publications (includes reports on Urban School Leadership, State Leadership, Teacher Leadership, District Leadership, and Principal Leadership)
This set of publications includes reports on state leadership, district leadership, principal leadership, urban school leadership, and teacher leadership.

» National Association of Secondary School Principals

Breaking Ranks II
Breaking Ranks II engages principals, teacher leaders, and the entire school community in reforming the American high school into an academically rigorous, personalized learning environment that is improved through collaborative leadership. Breaking Ranks II provides high school principals and their leadership teams with illustrations of possible entry points or areas in which to begin reform, strategies for implementing successful reform, and profiles of successes, challenges, and results of implementation.