The Instructional Leadership Toolbox: A Handbook for Improving Practice

"To 'repair' a plank in your educational leadership platform or to build a new platform, Gupton's The Instructional Leadership Toolbox is indeed a useful tool."
Fred Carver, Professor (Retired)
The University of Georgia
Athens, GA

"This relevant book is presented as a true balance of theory and practicality. Gupton does an excellent job of giving the concept as theory and then telling us how to apply that concept on a day-to-day basis."
Tressie Shaw Harper, Superintendent
Moss Point School District
Moss Point, MS

"She's nailed it! The Instructional Leadership Toolbox is a brilliant blueprint for successful, values-based school leadership. Practical, insightful, and accurate-this book is a 'must read' for every school administrator at any level."
Lisa Hall, Assistant Principal
Northside Middle School, Greenwood, SC?

Today’s schools require leaders who focus school efforts and resources on what is happening in the classroom: teaching and learning. Dr. Gupton examines the instructional leadership role of the principal, providing school leaders with practical ways to reflect on, determine, and improve their own instructional goals. Using a unique toolbox metaphor, this resource book also offers a variety of helpful "tools"-skills, strategies, and information-drawn from today’s best research and theory in school administration. While noting the complicated and abstract nature of the qualities of good leadership, The Instructional Leadership Toolbox offers:

• Reader-friendly text, using "tools" as metaphors to represent key instructional leadership skills
• Chapter-opening lists that provide a quick reference to what follows
• "Pointers for the Principal" bulleted at the end of each chapter
• Question sets for reflective practice
• "Tool Extenders" or suggested resources listed at the end of each chapter for further reading