Exploring the journey of school improvement: Classifying and analyzing patterns of change in school improvement processes and learning outcomes

School Effectiveness and School Improvement

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-27

  Hallinger, Philip ^a   Heck, Ronald H ^b  

^a THE EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaborative leadership; Leadership; Leadership for learning; Longitudinal research; School improvement

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951573041     PISSN: 09243453     EISSN: 17445124     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09243453.2010.536322     Document Type: Article

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