• Leadership for School Improvement - McREL
Current literature on leadership and offers ideas and suggestions that may serve as the basis of further study of effective leadership strategies.

• Sustaining School Improvement - McREL
Folio series designed to assist school leaders in sustaining comprehensive school reform.

• Southwest Educational Developmental Laboratory: Leadership Characteristics that Facilitate School Change.

• How Leadership Influences Student Learning
Kenneth Leithwood, Karen Seashore Louis, Stephen Anderson and Kyla Wahlstrom.

• Improving Teaching and Learning by Improving School Leadership (NGA) 

• Leadership and Organization Development - McREL

• A Leader?s Guide to Systems Thinking About School Improvement (McREL)
This guidebook is designed to help school leaders, particularly principals, think systemically as they examine school improvement issues and make decisions about change.

• Preparing School Principals: A National Perspective on Policy and Program Innovations 
By Hale and Moorman.

• Learning to Lead. Leading to Learn - NSDC

• Coalition of Essential Schools
For over twenty years, CES has been a national leader in public education transformation. Guided by the Common Principles, CES strives to create and sustain a network of personalized, equitable, and intellectually challenging schools.

• Balanced Leadership: What 30 Years of Research Tells Us About the Effect of Leadership on Student Achievement 
Research report detailing the outcomes of a meta-analysis of research on the effects of principal leadership practices on student achievement by Waters, Marzano, McNulty.

• Annenberg Institute's Tools for School Improvement Planning
Web site contains observation protocols, focus group samples and questions, surveys, questionnaires, and other techniques to help you examine your specific school-improvement concerns.

• Guiding Comprehensive School Reform - McREL
Folio series designed to assist school leaders in initiating comprehensive school reform.

• A School Change Toolkit - McREL
This site is designed for anyone undertaking a school improvement effort.

• Research You Can Use to Improve Results.
Cotton, K. (1995). Alexandria, VA: ASCD and Portland, OR: NWREL. See chapter 8, Parent and Community Involvement.

• A Leader's Guide to Systems Thinking About School Improvement (McREL)
This guidebook is designed to help school leaders, particularly principals, think systemically as they examine school improvement issues and make decisions about change.

• National School Boards Association (NSBA)
Excellence and equity in public education through school board leadership.

• A Leader's Guide to Systems Thinking About School Improvement
Designed to help school leaders, particularly principals, think systemically as they examine school improvement issues and make decisions about change.

• Leadership Audit Tool
The free Leadership Audit Tool enables education management leaders to assess management styles and pinpoint management skills and techniques that necessitate improvement. The inventory is divided into key areas of problem solving and decision making, learning, structural conditions, community concerns, school culture, and human resources. Users have an opportunity to graph their responses for easy interpretation. (NCREL)

• Colorado Critical Friends Group
Aims to create a cadre of certified teacher-coaches who can nurture learning communities within their schools and build the capacity of educators to raise student achievement.

• Comprehensive School Reform Program Registry

• Elevating Educational Leadership 

• The Key to Continuous School Improvement (2nd ed.)
Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, Schmoker, M. (1999).

• Becoming a Community of Learners: Emerging Leadership Practices 
A checklist designed to stimulate thinking about what you are, where you are, and to help you reflect on your leadership and practices in your school.

• Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)
A web site housing information from a community of educators, advocating sound policies and sharing best practices to achieve the success of each learner.

• Michigan Edu Source
Education Recource Site for Michigan

• Schools Moving Up
SchoolsMovingUp, a WestEd initiative, helps schools and districts address the immense challenge of raising student achievement in low-performing schools.

• School, Teacher, and Leadership Impacts on Student Achievement
Policy brief offering recommendations related to school, teacher, and leadership practices that positively impact student achievement.

• Balanced Leadership: What 30 Years of Research Tells Us About the Effect of Leadership on Student Achievement. 

• Learning to Lead, Leading to Learn
Improving school quality through principal professional development.

• Understanding the Keys to Motivation to Learn

• Recognizing that Leadership is not the same as Management.

• Minority Student Achievement Network

• Books

• National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP)

• National High School Association (NHSA)

• National Education Association (NEA)

• Phi Delta Kappa International

• National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP)

• American Association of School Administrators

• National Middle School Association (NMSA)

• National Association of Seconday School Principals (NASSP)
Web site dedicated to driving to promoting school improvement

• The Association of Educational Service Agencies (AESA)
A professional organization serving over 550+ education service agencies (ESAs) in 44 states.

• Supporting School System Leaders: The State of Effective Training Programs for School Superintendents
This Wallace-commissioned national scan and analysis of superintendent-training opportunities conducted by Lee Teitel of Harvard catalogues the growing variety of programs offered by professional groups, nonprofits, universities, foundations and for-profit companies.

• National Standards - National PTA

• Center for Leadership (NGA)

• Policy Brief - Creating Conditions for Leadership Effectiveness (McREL) 
The District's Role Policy brief offering recommendations to districts on ways to support principals and other school leaders in positively impacting student achievement.

• Leadership and Organizational Vitality
OERI's Working Paper on "Leadership and Organizational Vitality" by Lee G. Bolman and Terrence E. Deal.

• Leading Learning Communities: What Principals Should Know and Be Able to Do

• Leadership and Change Process (McREL)

• Leadership for School Improvement (McREL)
This publication synthesizes some of the most current literature on leadership and offers ideas and suggestions that may serve as the basis of further study of effective leadership strategies.

• Leadership Matters (SREB) 

• Policy-Brief - School, Teacher, and Leadership Impacts on Student Achievement
As a resource for conversations and decision making related to school, teacher, and leadership practices by Kirsten Miller.

• Research - U.S. Department of Education Cross-Site Indexing Project

• The National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE)
Serves and strengthens State Boards of Education in their pursuit of high levels of academic achievement for all students.

• The Future of Schooling: Educating America in 2014
After analyzing key demographic, economic, cultural, global, political, and technological trends in the US, McREL has written 16 scenarios that describe how these trends may converge to create different futures for schooling in America.

• Standard and Poors School Evaluation Services (Schools Matter)