Bøker av Susan Moore Johnson

Outlines a powerful argument about the importance of the school as an organisation in nurturing high quality teaching. Based on case studies conducted in fourteen high-poverty, urban schools, the book examines why some schools failed to make progress, while others achieved remarkable results.

Focuses on a problem of practice faced by educational leaders: how to effectively manage the relationship between the central office and schools. The authors argue that there is no "one best way" to structure the central office-school relationship. Instead, they say, what matters is whether district leaders eff ectively select and implement their strategy.

This work explores the leadership challenges facing inexperienced superintendents and provides an analysis of how superintendents define their educational visions, how they lead school reform and how they negotiate the managerial and political dimensions of their job.