Leading school turnaround: how successful leaders transform low-performing schools / Kenneth Leithwood, Alma Harris, Tiiu Strauss

Abstract

The aim of this book is to build on evidence currently available about how to quickly and significantly improve the performance of exceptionally underperforming schools and sustain those gains. Reflecting on the evidence about successful turn-around processes in organizational sectors other than schools, we assumed that the influence of leaders is a crucial feature of this process