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American Association of School Administrators
www.aasa.org

Association of Supervision & Curriculum Development
www.ascd.org

Discovery Learning
www.discoverylearning.com

National School Boards Foundation: Education Leadership Tool Kit
www.nsba.org/sbot/toolkit/

Free Management Library: Evaluation Activities 
www.managementhelp.org/evaluatn/evaluatn.htm

“How the world’s most improved school systems keep getting better” Nov 2010 McKinsey & Co. http://ssomckinsey.darbyfilms.com/reports/schools/How-the-Worlds-Most-Improved-School-Systems-Keep-Getting-Better_Download-version_Final.pdf

"How the world's best-performing school systems come out on top", Sept 2007, McKinsey & Co.
http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/SSO/Worlds_School_Systems_Final.pdf

Institute of Education, University of London
http://www.ioe.ac.uk/

Institute Leadership Association
http://www.ila-net.org/

Institute for Educational Leadership: Publications
www.iel.org/pubs.html

Connexions: Interactive Case Simulations in Educational Leadership
cnx.org/content/m14100/latest

Questia: Leadership Resources, see online library of books
www.questia.com/

Learning Forward (formerly National Staff Development Council)
http://www.learningforward.org/index.cfm

Marshall Memo: Subscription Service Summarizing Recent Educational Articles
www.marshallmemo.com

Mid-Continent Research for Education and Learning
www.mcrel.org

National Association of Elementary School Principals
www.naesp.org

National School Reform Faculty: Critical Friends Protocols
http://www.nsrfharmony.org

Association for Middle Level Educators
www.amle.org

Learning Point Associates (formerly NCREL)
www.learningpt.org

Performance Learning Systems, Inc.
www.plsweb.com

PDK Phi Delta Kappa Professional Education Organization 
www.pdkintl.org

Institute of Educational Resources: Regional Educational Laboratory Program
ies.ed.gov/ncee/edlabs/

SEDL (formerly Southern Educational Development Laboratory) 
www.sedl.org

Annenberg Institute: Tools for School Improvement Planning
http://www.annenberginstitute.org/tools/index2.php

University of Minnesota Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement 
education.umn.edu/CAREI/default.html

U.S. Dept. of Education
www.ed.gov

What matters: Can fresh thinking solve the world's most intractable problems?
www.mckinseyquarterly.com/spContent/2011_12_05.html

PRINT RESOURCES

The Powers To Lead, Joseph S. Nye Jr

Six Secrets of Change, Michael Fullan

Focus, Mike Schmoker

Revisiting Professional Learning Communities, Richard DuFour

Leading Change in your School, Douglas Reeves

Ahead of the Curve: The Power of Assessment to Transform Teaching and Learning, Edited by Doug Reeves

Becoming a Learning School, Joellen Killion

Data Driven Dialogue, Bruce Wellman

Seven Secrets of the Savvy School, Robert Evans

The Handbook for Smart School Teams, Anne Consemius & Jan o’Neill

The Skillful Leader II by Alexander Platt 

 

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