• Sustaining School Improvement - McREL Folio series designed to assist school leaders in sustaining comprehensive school reform.

• Leadership for School Improvement - McREL  Current literature on leadership and offers ideas and suggestions that may serve as the basis of further study of effective leadership strategies.

• Southwest Educational Developmental Laboratory: Leadership Characteristics that Facilitate School Change.

• How Leadership Influences Student Learning Kenneth Leithwood, Karen Seashore Louis, Stephen Anderson and Kyla Wahlstrom.

• Improving Teaching and Learning by Improving School Leadership (NGA) 

• A Leader's Guide to Systems Thinking About School Improvement (McREL) This guidebook is designed to help school leaders, particularly principals, think systemically as they examine school improvement issues and make decisions about change.

• Balanced Leadership: What 30 Years of Research Tells Us About the Effect of Leadership on Student Achievement  Research report detailing the outcomes of a meta-analysis of research on the effects of principal leadership practices on student achievement by Waters, Marzano, McNulty.

• Preparing School Principals: A National Perspective on Policy and Program Innovations  By Hale and Moorman.

• Leadership and Organization Development - McREL

• Coalition of Essential Schools For over twenty years, CES has been a national leader in public education transformation. Guided by the Common Principles, CES strives to create and sustain a network of personalized, equitable, and intellectually challenging schools.

• Annenberg Institute's Tools for School Improvement Planning Web site contains observation protocols, focus group samples and questions, surveys, questionnaires, and other techniques to help you examine your specific school-improvement concerns.

• Guiding Comprehensive School Reform - McREL Folio series designed to assist school leaders in initiating comprehensive school reform.

• Research You Can Use to Improve Results. Cotton, K. (1995). Alexandria, VA: ASCD and Portland, OR: NWREL. See chapter 8, Parent and Community Involvement.

• National School Boards Association (NSBA) Excellence and equity in public education through school board leadership.

• Elevating Educational Leadership 

• The Key to Continuous School Improvement (2nd ed.) Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, Schmoker, M. (1999).

• Becoming a Community of Learners: Emerging Leadership Practices  A checklist designed to stimulate thinking about what you are, where you are, and to help you reflect on your leadership and practices in your school.

• Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) A web site housing information from a community of educators, advocating sound policies and sharing best practices to achieve the success of each learner.

• Schools Moving Up SchoolsMovingUp, a WestEd initiative, helps schools and districts address the immense challenge of raising student achievement in low-performing schools.

• School, Teacher, and Leadership Impacts on Student Achievement Policy brief offering recommendations related to school, teacher, and leadership practices that positively impact student achievement.

• Balanced Leadership: What 30 Years of Research Tells Us About the Effect of Leadership on Student Achievement. 

• Understanding the Keys to Motivation to Learn

• Minority Student Achievement Network

• Books

• Association for Middle Level Education (AMLE)

• National High School Association (NHSA)

• National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP)

• American Association of School Administrators

• National Education Association (NEA)

• Phi Delta Kappa International

• National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP)

• Supporting School System Leaders: The State of Effective Training Programs for School Superintendents This Wallace-commissioned national scan and analysis of superintendent-training opportunities conducted by Lee Teitel of Harvard catalogues the growing variety of programs offered by professional groups, nonprofits, universities, foundations and for-profit companies.

• Policy Brief - Creating Conditions for Leadership Effectiveness (McREL)  The District's Role Policy brief offering recommendations to districts on ways to support principals and other school leaders in positively impacting student achievement.

• Leadership for School Improvement (McREL)  This publication synthesizes some of the most current literature on leadership and offers ideas and suggestions that may serve as the basis of further study of effective leadership strategies.

• Leadership Matters (SREB) 

• Policy-Brief - School, Teacher, and Leadership Impacts on Student Achievement As a resource for conversations and decision making related to school, teacher, and leadership practices by Kirsten Miller.

• Leading Learning Communities: What Principals Should Know and Be Able to Do

• The National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE) Serves and strengthens State Boards of Education in their pursuit of high levels of academic achievement for all students.

• The Future of Schooling: Educating America in 2014 After analyzing key demographic, economic, cultural, global, political, and technological trends in the US, McREL has written 16 scenarios that describe how these trends may converge to create different futures for schooling in America.