Leadership Magazine 2021

A selection
of useful
resources
Leadership

Coherence
Fullan & Quinn (2016)
Fullan and Quinn present the Coherence
Framework as the key to sustainable and
successful change. The framework is a dynamic
customisable roadmap made up of four essential
components. The text provides insights and tools
to drive effective leadership and moves the
narrative of fixing one teacher at a time to asking
about the coherence of a system, be it a school
or broader system. It shows examples of
coherence in action and makes no excuses for
employing the wrong drivers of change.

Focus
Schmoker (2018)
In this second edition, Mike Schmoker
argues that schools are yet to focus their
time and energy on the most essential,
widely acknowledged, evidence-based
practices that could have more impact than
all other initiatives combined. These are
simple, coherent curricula; straightforward,
traditional literacy practices; and lessons
built around just a few hugely effective
elements of good teaching.

Disciplinary Literacy
Inquiry & Instruction
The authors share their experiences of working
for many decades with teachers across grade
levels, conducting studies and analysing
research in order to build a more
comprehensive instructional framework that
engages students in every content area. They
present a Disciplinary Literacy approach where
educators are asked to empower students to
adopt and eventually adapt the language,
genres, and modalities prized by each discipline.
Ippolitoo, Dobbs & Charner-Laird (2019)

Leading Change in Your
School
Reeves presents the conditions that need to
be created in schools for change. He shares
what he has learned through his work with
educators in thousands of schools around
the world and presents real-life examples of
leaders who have met the challenge of
change head-on with impressive results.
Readers will also find practical resources for
engaging their colleagues in change
initiatives.
Reeves (2009)

Clarity: What Matters Most
in Learning, and Leading
In this text, Clarity: What Matters Most in
Learning, Teaching, and Leading - Sharratt
illustrates how system and school leaders
must come together to boost student
achievement and build teacher capacity to
learn, teach and lead. Readers will uncover
14 essential Parameters to guide system
and school leaders towards building
collaborative learning cultures.
Sharratt (2019)

Best Practices of Literacy
Leaders: Keys to School
Improvement
This book presents the principles of
effective literacy leadership and describes
proven methods for improving
instruction, assessment, and school-wide
professional development. It explains the
key roles of formal and informal leaders in
initiating, supporting, and sustaining
instructional improvement.
Swan & Bean (2020)

How to Get your School
Moving and Improving
This text is based on over three decades of
research by Professor Steve Dinham. It
covers all aspects of teaching, learning and
school leadership. It shows what research
has revealed about what really works and
adds value in Australian schools in the
twenty-first century.
Dinham (2008)

Deep Learning: Engage the
World Change the World
This book states the moral imperative that
educators have when teaching so that
students will have enviable futures. It
defines what deep learning is and takes up
the question of how to mobilise complex,
whole system change that transforms
learning for all students..
By: Fullan, Quinn & McEachen (2018)