Leadership for Deeper Learning Facilitating School Innovation and Transformation

This exciting book explores how leaders have implemented, sustained, and pushed innovative, deeper learning opportunities in their school settings. Across the United States and around the world, the concept of a school is growing more action-oriented, performance-focused, digitally relevant, and democratically infused. In this book, you’ll hear from real schools and leaders about practices that are changing schools and leading to deeper learning experiences across seven categories of innovative practice—including vision, agency in learning, trust in teachers, openness to new ideas, over-communicating change, equity mindedness, and courage to live outside norms. Leadership for Deeper Learning looks at how school leaders change the status quo and create different learning environments for students and teachers. Rich in stories and strategies, this book will provide you with the ideas and tools to rethink and reignite learning for the future.

1. Introduction 2. Establishing and Conveying the Vision 3. Facilitating High-Quality Learning Experiences for Students 4. Building Professional Capacity 5. Creating a Supportive Organization for Learning 6. Connecting with External Partners 7. Closing Thoughts

Jayson W. Richardson is Professor of Educational Leadership and Department Chair of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies in the Morgridge College of Education at the University of Denver, USA. Justin Bathon is Associate Professor of Educational Leadership, Co-Director of the Center for Next Generation Leadership, and Director of the Next Generation Scholars Dual Credit Network at the University of Kentucky, USA. Scott McLeod is Founding Director of the University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA)Center for the Advanced Study of Technology Leadership in Education (CASTLE), and Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Colorado Denver, USA.