STEM Leadership: How do I create a STEM culture in my school? T. Buncker, B. Boyd (2015)

With funding and state and federal mandates to expand STEM education, school leaders require instructional leadership resources to bolster their school-level programs. This book will explain what school leaders can do to improve the quality of STEM education in their buildings and to help teachers improve STEM learning for their students. They claim leaders can achieve these goals by fostering equitable access to rich and rigorous learning, acting as instructional leaders, and building community engagement and partnerships. This ASCD Arias publication will explain:

• Why STEM education is increasingly important today;
• What leaders must do to support a STEM culture and rigorous STEM instruction in their schools;
• Practical strategies that leaders can implement tomorrow;
• How to develop instruction that fosters college and career readiness.

10 Traits of Highly Effective Principals: From Good to Great Performance. E. K. McEwan (2003)

Increase your own effectiveness with the help of the built-in facilitator's guide, ideas, reflections, behaviours, habits, and inspiring stories.

Effective learning in schools. C. Bowring- Carr & J. West- Burnhman (1997)

Do you feel that too much emphasis is being placed on school management and not enough on teaching? There is an increasing awareness that the only way that schools can respond to the challenges that face them is to move away from an emphasis on teaching and management to a new approach based on learning and leadership. These are the findings of a pioneering study which analysed trends in our understanding of how children and adults learn. Effective Learning in Schools is the first book to study an integrated approach to learning and leadership. Providing: proposed structures and processes to help schools become learning organisations

• specific and detailed information to help schools make the transition
• case studies which offer guidance on tried and tested strategies.

Backed up with case studies and examples to offer guidance of tried and tested strategies, Effective Learning in Schools is ideal reading for head teachers, deputy head teachers and students on education management courses.

Differentiated School Leadership: Effective Collaboration, Communication, and Change Through Personality Type. J. Kise & B. Russell (2013)

This resource shows how an understanding of personality types and adults' individual leadership styles helps build school teams that can collaborate and distribute leadership responsibilities more effectively.

Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone To Take Action. S. Sinek (2011)

Why are some people and organisations more inventive, pioneering and successful than others?And why are they able to repeat their success again and again? Because in business, it doesn't matter what you do, it matters why you do it. Steve Jobs, the Wright Brothers, and Martin Luther King have one thing in common - they started with why. This book is for anyone who wants to inspire others, or to be inspired. www.startwithwhy.com Jacket design- Base Art Co.