New Explorations for Instructional Leaders: How Principals Can Promote Teaching and Learning Effectively does an exceptionally fine job of illustrating how expert instructional leaders do their work. These illustrations are eminently practical and, most importantly, reproducible in other contexts.

Kenneth Leithwood, professor emeritus, Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto, Canada

New Explorations for Instructional Leaders: How Principals Can Promote Teaching and Learning Effectively reflects a deep understanding of the complexities of putting the research on instructional leadership into practice. This book will be of interest to school leaders, those who support them, policymakers, and researchers.

Philip Hallinger, Thailand Sustainable Development Foundation chair professor of leadership, College of Management, Mahidol University, Thailand

Instructional leadership is increasingly recognized as vital if students are to succeed and thrive. New Explorations for Instructional Leaders brings together the best current thinking and research about this model, skillfully written by Haim Shaked, who has contributed a great deal to what is known and understood about how good school leaders address student learning. This book shows how instructional leadership can be promoted by good principals while also acknowledging how it might be inhibited. It will be a valuable resource for scholars and practitioners.

Tony Bush, professor of educational leadership, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom

Haim Shaked’s new book provides fascinating evidence about principal’s perceptions of the factors which enable and constrain their instructional leadership. Researchers and policymakers who take these perceptions seriously will be better placed to navigate the complexities involved in improving instructional leadership in our schools.

Viviane Robinson, professor emeritus, faculty of Education and Social Work, Learning, Development and Professional Practice, University of Auckland, New Zealand

New Explorations for Instructional Leaders is the right book to punctuate over a decade of scholarly and policy focus on instructional leadership. Shaked provides a synthesis of evidence-based models, while using extensive data to raise questions about practice, focusing on competing educational goals that distract from an emphasis on academic learning and the significance of specific contexts and relationships. His practical analysis is relevant to the preparation and professional development of school leaders, but his questions point toward future empirical investigations of the details of instructional leadership practice.

Karen Seashore Louis, professor emeritus, Beck Chair of Ideas in Education, Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development, University of Minnesota