Leading with Inquiry & Action: How Principals Improve Teaching and Learning

Leading With Inquiry and Action presents a systematic, ongoing process for collecting information, making decisions and taking action to improve instruction and raise student achievement. The authors illustrate this collaborative inquiry-action cycle with a running vignette of an experienced principal, and offer questions and exercises to guide individual reflection and group discussion. Thoroughly grounded in research, this book helps administrators: Identify areas for instructional improvement; Determine community- supported solutions and build stakeholder commitment; Articulate an action plan based on multiple data sources; Take steps that support teacher development; Systematically evaluate program results.