Leadership and learning: Conceptualizing relations between school administrative practice and instructional practice

Societies

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 277-294

  Spillane, James P ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Instructional Reform; School Improvement; School Leadership

Indexed keywords

EID: 84962391439     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20754698     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/soc5020277     Document Type: Article

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