Leadership: An Imperative for Successful Change: Issues About Change, Volume 1, Number 2

Who are the people leading successful school change? What do these leaders do?

An excellent introduction to school leadership, this paper reviews the literature on leaders' strategies for school change, identifies five strategies, and describes how the strategies are applied at the district and local school levels.

Originally published in 1991 and revised in 2000, this publication is one of a series of briefing papers called Issues About Change.