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by Ronald H. Heck and Philip Hallinger in American Educational Research Journal, V. 46, No. 3 (2009) pp. 659-689. Abstract: One of a relative few longitudinal studies looking at effects of distributed leadership on school improvement and student achievement (elementary school). Findings favor distributed leadership both for "building the academic capacity of schools" and improving achievement. Available directly from publisher site (this page) or through your library's document delivery service. 2009

In the Department of Educational Administration at the University of Texas at Austin, the Community College Leadership Program (CCLP) was established in 1944. The program focuses on training community college leaders.

This biographical page, by the IDEA Center (a nonprofit that promotes improvement of teaching, learning, and leadership) describes the career and significant presentation topics of L. Dee Fink; his most popular work seems to be The Joy and Responsibility of Teaching Well.

Dr. Fink was mentioned in the Editing, GULP forum, as L.H. attended one of his professional development presentations.

Presented on TED.COM, filmed Feb 2010 and posted April 2010. Wujec discusses his experience using the Marshmallow Challenge in team-building exercises. Observing the challenge 100s of times, he sees that kindergarteners do better than recent business school grads (better at prototyping, less jockeying for leadership), CEOs do well, but do even better with an executive admin on their team because facilitation is important. High stakes (he's offered a cash reward) works better once the team has acquired skills; high stakes with no skills is a disaster.

Inspired by this video, both LS and RS used the Marshmallow Challenge as an icebreaker on their first class meetings (2nd semester) and both were pleased with the results.

The marshmallow challenge continued to be a popular icebreaker throughout the GSCC project. In semester 4, RS referenced this video again, and LS created her own video (see tag marshmallow) with her students completing the challenge.

This is an Education Week Leadership Forum taking place in Chicago on April 7, 2010. Brenda has noted the takeaways: Keys to building consistent data best practices at every school; New ways to leverage data you're already collecting; Techniques to keep district and school data users focused on achievement.

Youtube video. Advancing K-12 Technology Leadership, Consortium for School Networking(COSN)

By Jack Stripling in Leadership & Governance column, The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 23, 2011. All sitting presidents (except recently hired Donald J. Laackman) of the City Colleges of Chicago "will be forced to reapply for their jobs if they want to keep them,and they must commit to achieving higher student-success rates if they are reappointed...." According to the article, "just 7 percent of City College students who require remediation go on to earn a degree...."

On TED.com, filmed July 2009 and posted October 2009. Talgam, a former conductor, describes the "unique styles of six great 20th-century conductors, illustrating crucial lessons for all leaders."

TM posted, with the message, "I think you would enjoy this video and it's implications for how we can inspire our students to learn."