Finding Your Leadership Focus – What Matters Most for Student Results Reeves

Finding Your Leadership FocusWhat Matters Most for Student Results\nAuthor(s): Douglas B. Reeves, Michael Fullan\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Teachers' College Press, United States\nImprint: Teachers' College Press\nISBN-13: 9780807751701, 978-0807751701\nSynopsis\nIn his new book, author and international keynoter Douglas Reeves addresses a major challenge faced by todays school leaders: an ever-growing load of programs and initiatives. Reeves contends that program overload not only taxes leadership resources, but actually hurts rather than improves student performance. Drawing on recent research findings, this book shows how leaders can pare down from a proliferation of initiatives to determine what is truly most important based on their local concerns, challenges, populations, and other school factors. \n\nIdentifying a specific set of leadership practices that are more strongly associated with improvements in student achievement, Reeves provides explicit guidelines for how scho.