Kenneth Leithwood

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According to Wikipedia, Kenneth "Ken" Leithwood is an educational researcher and professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education in Toronto, Canada. His research has focused on school leadership, processes of school reform, and assessment of educational policy.

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Seven strong claims about successful school leadership (2008) (2108)
How leadership influences student learning. (2004) (1619)
Changing leadership for changing times (1999) (1586)
What We Know about Successful School Leadership (2003) (1221)
Leadership for School Restructuring (1994) (1147)
The Effects of Transformational Leadership on Organizational Conditions and Student Engagement with School. (2000) (933)
Transformational school leadership for large-scale reform: Effects on students, teachers, and their classroom practices (2006) (810)
The Move toward Transformational Leadership. (1992) (796)
How leadership influences student learning (Review of Research). New York: The Wallace Foundation. (2004) (723)
Second international handbook of educational leadership and administration (1996) (711)
A Review of Transformational School Leadership Research 1996–2005 (2005) (664)
Linking Leadership to Student Learning: The Contributions of Leader Efficacy (2008) (622)
Executive Summary: Review of Research: How Leadership Influences Student Learning (2004) (599)
Testing a Conception of How School Leadership Influences Student Learning (2010) (586)
Investigating the Links to Improved Student Learning: Final Report of Research Findings (2010) (570)
Collective Leadership Effects on Student Achievement (2008) (567)
Successful School Leadership: What It Is and How It Influences Pupil Learning (2006) (557)
Transformational Leadership: How Principals Can Help Reform School Cultures (1990) (528)
Distributed leadership according to the evidence (2009) (516)
The impact of school leadership on pupil outcomes (2008) (474)
The Role of the Elementary School Principal in Program Improvement (1982) (467)
Distributing Leadership to Make Schools Smarter: Taking the Ego Out of the System (2007) (459)
Linking Leadership to Student Learning (2011) (453)
Learning from Leadership: Investigating the Links to Improved Student Learning. The Informed Educator Series. (2010) (429)
Transformational School Leadership Effects: A Replication (1999) (425)
Transformational leadership effects on teachers' commitment and effort toward school reform (2003) (423)
The Nature and Effects of Transformational School Leadership (2012) (422)
The Relative Effects of Principal and Teacher Sources of Leadership on Student Engagement with School (1999) (421)
Conditions Fostering Organizational Learning in Schools (1998) (400)
Developing Expert Leadership For Future Schools (1992) (355)
Current Empirical Research on Evaluation Utilization (1986) (350)
Seven strong claims about successful school leadership revisited (2020) (338)
Transformational School Leadership (1996) (325)
Distributed leadership and organizational change: Reviewing the evidence (2007) (321)
A Review of Empirical Evidence About School Size Effects: A Policy Perspective (2009) (317)
Principal and Teacher Leadership Effects: A replication (2000) (310)
The effects of transformational leadership on teachers’ commitment to change in Hong Kong (2002) (299)
Culture and educational administration: A case of finding out what you don’t know you don’t know (1996) (263)
Forms and Effects of School-Based Management: A Review (1998) (260)
School Leadership and Teachers’ Motivation to Implement Accountability Policies (2002) (250)
Expert Problem Solving: Evidence from School and District Leaders (1994) (216)
The Relationship Between Distributed Leadership and Teachers’ Academic Optimism (2008) (211)
The Nature, Causes and Consequences of Principals′ Practices: An Agenda for Future Research (1990) (210)
Understanding successful principal leadership: progress on a broken front (2005) (205)
Leading School Turnaround: How Successful Leaders Transform Low-Performing Schools (2010) (204)
School leadership in the context of accountability policies (2001) (203)
Successful principal leadership in times of change : an international perspective (2007) (198)
Investigating the Links to Improved Student Learning: Executive Summary of Research Findings (2010) (195)
Organizational Learning in Schools (2021) (194)
Leading Data Use in Schools: Organizational Conditions and Practices at the School and District Levels (2010) (192)
Leading with Teacher Emotions in Mind (2008) (190)
Toward an Explanation of Variation in Teachers' Perceptions of Transformational School Leadership (1996) (188)
Unseen forces: The impact of social culture on school leadership (1998) (170)
Teacher Working Conditions That Matter: Evidence for Change (2006) (163)
A Review of Research Concerning the Implementation of Site‐Based Management∗ (1998) (153)
Successful principal leadership in times of change (2007) (150)
Expertise in Principals' Problem Solving (1989) (148)
Characteristics of School Districts that Are Exceptionally Effective in Closing the Achievement Gap (2010) (143)
Explaining variation in teachers’ perceptions of principals’ leadership: a replication (1997) (143)
Transformational School Leadership Effects on Student Achievement (2012) (140)
Final Report of the External Evaluation of England's National Literacy and Numeracy Strategies. Final Report. Watching & Learning 3. (2003) (130)
Changing Leadership for Changing Times (Changing Education Series) (1999) (128)
Why Teachers Trust School Leaders. (2013) (125)
Mapping the Conceptual Terrain of Leadership: A Critical Point of Departure for Cross-Cultural Studies (1998) (125)
and Kyla Wahlstrom Review of research How leadership influences student learning University of Minnesota Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement (2004) (122)
Enhancing Knowledge Utilization as a Strategy for School Improvement (1993) (119)
Evaluating Program Implementation (1980) (118)
Educational Accountability Effects: An International Perspective (2000) (118)
Preparing School Leaders: What Works? (1996) (117)
Direction-setting school leadership practices: a meta-analytical review of evidence about their influence (2015) (113)
Distributed Leadership and Student Engagement in School. (1998) (108)
School restructuring, transformational leadership and the amelioration of teacher burnout (1996) (107)
Making Schools Smarter: Leading With Evidence (2006) (106)
Research into the impact of school leadership on pupil outcomes: policy and research contexts (2008) (105)
Cognitive Perspectives on Educational Leadership (1993) (102)
A Framework for Research on Large-scale Reform (2002) (92)
Making Schools Smarter: A System for Monitoring School and District Progress. Second Edition. (2000) (85)
Investing in Leadership: The District's Role in Managing Principal Turnover (2010) (85)
School Leaders ’ Influences on Student Learning : The Four Paths (2011) (85)
The development and testing of a school improvement model (2006) (83)
Indicators of transformational leadership in the everyday problem solving of school administrators (1991) (83)
Teacher Working Conditions that Matter. (2007) (81)
Successful Leadership: Does Context Matter and If So, How? (2007) (79)
Introduction: Exploring the Impact of Principal Leadership (1994) (78)
Using the appraisal of school leaders as an instrument for school restructuring (1991) (77)
Seashore & How leadership influences student learning. (2004) (75)
Department-Head Leadership for School Improvement (2016) (74)
The effects of different sources of leadership on student engagement in school (2013) (74)
What We Know About Educational Leadership (2007) (73)
Handbook of Curriculum Evaluation (1979) (73)
What we have learned, what we need to know more about (2008) (72)
Starting with What we Know (2007) (70)
An Organisational Learning Perspective on School Responses to Central Policy Initiatives (1995) (69)
How Successful Leadership Influences Student Learning: The Second Installment of a Longer Story (2010) (66)
Effective school district leadership : transforming politics into education (1995) (65)
Leadership and Team Learning in Secondary Schools (1997) (64)
Educational Leadership. A Review of the Research. (2005) (63)
Leadership Program Effects on Student Learning: The Case of the Greater New Orleans School Leadership Center (2003) (61)
Improving the Problem-Solving Expertise of School Administrators (1992) (60)
Educational accountability : the state of the art : international network for innovative school systems (INIS) (1999) (60)
School Councils' Influence on School and Classroom Practice (2000) (59)
Teacher burnout: A critical challenge for leaders of restructuring schools. (1999) (59)
Contributions of Transformational Leadership to School Restructuring. (1993) (59)
Unpacking the Challenges of Leadership at the School and District Level (2002) (58)
How leadership influences student learning, Executive Summary (2004) (58)
Turnaround Schools: Leadership Lessons. (2009) (54)
New Perspectives on an Old Idea: A Short History of the Old Idea (2009) (54)
Organizational learning in schools: An introduction (1998) (52)
Earning Teachers' Commitment to Curriculum Reform (1994) (52)
OISE/UT Evaluation of the Implementation of the National Literacy and Numeracy Strategies. Second Annual Report. Watching & Learning 2. (2001) (52)
How School Leadership Influences Student Learning: A Test of “The Four Paths Model” (2020) (52)
Characteristics of Effective Leadership Networks. (2016) (51)
How School Leaders Contribute to Student Success (2017) (49)
Cognitive Perspectives on School Leadership (1995) (47)
THE ONTARIO LEADERSHIP FRAMEWORK 2012 (2012) (47)
Characteristics of High-Performing School Districts (2017) (47)
Transformational school leadership: Introduction (2006) (46)
Linking Leadership to Student Learning: Introduction (2008) (43)
Leadership Effects on Student Learning Mediated by Teacher Emotions (2015) (43)
Total quality leadership: Expert thinking plus transformational practice (1993) (43)
The Dimensions of Curriculum Innovation (1981) (43)
School Development for Teacher Learning and Change (2010) (41)
District Contributions to School Leaders’ Sense of Efficacy: A Qualitative Analysis (2007) (41)
Cognitive Perspectives on Educational Administration: An Introduction (1993) (41)
Patterns of Growth in Principal Effectiveness. (1984) (41)
OISE/UT Evaluation of the Implementation of the National Literacy and Numeracy Strategies. Summary: First Annual Report. Watching & Learning. (2000) (40)
Teacher Leadership: Its Nature, Development, and Impact on Schools and Students (2003) (40)
Doing Knowledge Transfer: Engaging Management and Labor with Research on Employee Health and Safety (2004) (36)
Distributed Leadership in Secondary Schools. (1997) (36)
Understanding Schools as Intelligent Systems (2000) (36)
What We Learned: A Broad View (2007) (35)
Turnaround Schools and the Leadership They Require. (2008) (32)
Characteristics of effective leadership networks: a replication and extension (2018) (31)
Exploring the Influences on Principal Behavior. (1988) (31)
Do School Councils Matter? (1999) (30)
Academic culture: a promising mediator of school leaders’ influence on student learning (2018) (30)
The 2005 Willower Family Lecture: Leadership According to the Evidence (2006) (30)
Differences in Problem-Solving Processes Used by Moderately and Highly Effective Principals. (1986) (30)
The Emotional Side of School Improvement: A Leadership Perspective (2007) (29)
Studies in curriculum decision making (1982) (29)
Superintendents' Group Problem-Solving Processes (1993) (29)
Secondary School Teachers' Commitment to Change: The Contributions of Transformational Leadership. (1993) (29)
Educational policy for effective schools (1989) (29)
Understanding School System Administration: Studies of the Contemporary Chief Education Officer (1991) (29)
Leadership Practices For Accountable Schools (2002) (28)
Understanding How Leadership Influences Student Learning (2010) (27)
The influence of values on school administrator practices (1990) (26)
Understanding and Assessing the Impact of Leadership Development (2008) (26)
Toward an Explanation of How Teachers' Perceptions of Transformational School Leadership Are Formed. (1995) (26)
How school districts influence student achievement (2019) (26)
Obstacles Preventing Principals from Becoming more Effective (1984) (25)
Should educational leadership focus on best practices or next practices? (2008) (24)
From Organizational Learning to Professional Learning Communities (2021) (23)
Building and Sustaining Successful Principalship: Key Themes (2007) (22)
Four key policy questions about parent engagement recommendations from the evidence (2009) (22)
The Relationship between Variations in Patterns of School Leadership and Group Problem-Solving Processes. (1993) (21)
The schools we need: a new blueprint for Ontario (2003) (19)
Effects of Distributed Leadership on School Academic Press and Student Achievement (2017) (18)
Teaching for deep understanding : what every educator should know (2006) (18)
Calculating the power of alternative choices by school leaders for improving student achievement (2017) (18)
Improving Classroom Practice-Using Innovation Profiles (1987) (18)
School Leadership, Evidence-Based Decision Making, and Large-Scale Student Assessment (2011) (17)
Complex motor learning in four-year-olds. (1971) (17)
Leadership for emotionally hot climates (2009) (17)
Leadership and Student Learning: What Works and How (2011) (16)
Changing the Educational Culture of the Home to Increase Student Success at School (2015) (16)
Preparing school leaders for educational improvement (1987) (16)
The Ontario Leadership Framework: Successful School Leadership Practices and Personal Leadership Resources (2017) (16)
Differences in the Socialization Experiences of Promoted and Aspiring School Administrators (1996) (16)
What Should Be the Boundaries of the Schools We Need (2003) (15)
Maintaining Emotional Balance. (2001) (15)
Defining effective leadership for Connecticut's future schools (1993) (14)
The SCHOOLS WE NEED Recent Education Policy in Ontario & Recommendations for Moving Forward January 2003 (2003) (14)
Converging Policy Trends (2011) (14)
Elementary and Secondary Principals' and Vice-Principals' Workload Studies (2014) (13)
Focus on implementation (1973) (13)
Managing the Implementation of Curriculum Innovations (1981) (13)
Educational Accountability: Issues and Alternatives (2005) (13)
A Review of Evidence about Equitable School Leadership (2021) (13)
Cognitive Flexibility and Inflexibility in Principals' Problem Solving. (1988) (13)
Transformational Leadership and School Restructuring. (1992) (13)
Training Principals for School Improvement (1984) (12)
Characteristics of High Performing School Districts A Review of Empirical Evidence (2010) (11)
Toward a Multilevel Conception of Policy Implementation Processes Based on Commitment Strategies. (1991) (11)
Characteristics of High Performing School Systems in Ontario (2011) (11)
How Successful Secondary School Principals Enact Policy (2018) (11)
The Role of the Principal in School Improvement (1985) (10)
Editor's Conclusion: What Have We learned And Where Do We Go From Here? (1992) (10)
Leadership Development on a Large Scale: Lessons for Long-Term Success (2019) (10)
Commitment‐‐building approaches to school restructuring: lessons from a longitudinal study (1996) (10)
Elementary Principals' and Vice-Principals' Workload Study Final Report (2014) (10)
Learning Testing a Conception of How School Leadership Influences Student (2012) (10)
Accountable Schools and the Leadership They Need (2005) (9)
The Nature, Causes and Consequences of Principals' Practices: A Framework for Research and Review of Recent Literature. (1988) (8)
Turning Around Underperforming School Systems Guidelines for District Leaders (2010) (8)
Motor, cognitive, and affective relationships among advantaged preschool children. (1971) (8)
Lessons About Improving Leadership on a Large Scale: From Ontario’s Leadership Strategy (2011) (8)
Organizational Conditions That Enhance Teaching and Learning (2007) (8)
Developing and Sustaining School Leaders: Lessons from Research (2007) (7)
Leading Schools in a Global Era : A Cultural Perspective: A Special Issue of the Peabody Journal of Education (2013) (7)
The influence of chief education officers on school effectiveness (1988) (7)
How the Leading Student Achievement Project Improves Student Learning : An Evolving Theory of Action February 2010 (2010) (7)
School change: Stages, constructs, and research methodology (1974) (7)
Curriculum Change at the System Level: A Four-Year Mathematics Project. (1976) (7)
Years of Transition: Times for Change. A Review and Analysis of Pilot Projects Investigating Issues in the Transition Years. Appendix To Volume Two. (1993) (6)
Leadership and other Conditions which Foster Organizational Learning in Schools (2021) (6)
An Organizational Learning Perspective On School Responses To Central Po!icy Initiatives (2012) (6)
Identifying and Explaining the Consequences for Schools of External Accountability Initiatives or "What in the World Did You Think I Was Doing before You Came Along?". (2000) (6)
A Revised Model of School Change. (1974) (6)
The Canadian School Superintendent (1989) (6)
Developing Leadership to Improve Student Outcomes (2010) (6)
Personality characteristics of three groups of weight-trainers (1967) (6)
Planning Curriculum Change: A Model and Case Study. Research in Education/6. (1976) (6)
The Role of the Secondary School Principal in Policy Implementation and School Improvement. (1986) (5)
Description and Assessment of a Program for the Certification of Principals. A Prototype Curriculum for Principal Certification Programs. (1988) (5)
Years of Transition: Times for Change. A Review and Analysis of Pilot Projects Investigating Issues in the Transition Years. Volume Two: Explaining Variations in Progress. (1993) (5)
School District Contributions to Students' Math and Language Achievement (2019) (5)
Postscript: Five Insights About School Leaders’ Policy Enactment (2018) (5)
Helping Schools Change: Strategies Derived from Field Experience. Occasional Papers/20. (1979) (5)
Strong DiStrictS & their LeaDerShip (2013) (4)
Language, religion, and educational rights in Ontario, 1980‐1990 (1991) (4)
Developing and Sustaining School Principals: Lessons from the Greater New Orleans School Leadership Center (2009) (4)
Planned Educational Change: Developing an Operational Model. (1972) (4)
Introduction to New Evidence on District Effects Special Issue (2010) (4)
Draining the Swamp: A Case Study of School System Design (1989) (3)
Education Accountability: State of the Art (1999) (3)
Programs and Politics: The Local Uses of International Tests (2004) (3)
Cognition and Movement: Theoretical, Pedagogical and Measurement Considerations (1971) (3)
Turning Around Underperforming School Systems (2010) (3)
Linking Leadership to Student Learning: Empirical Insights (2011) (3)
Reasons Given by Teachers for Their Curriculum Choices (1981) (3)
The Development of Ontario Schools: Intermediate and Senior Divisions--1984 (OSIS) and the Initial Phase of Its Implementation. (1987) (2)
A paper commissioned by the College of Alberta School Superintendents (2010) (2)
Effecting Curriculum Change: Experiences with the Conceptual Skills Project. Research in Education Series/4. (1974) (2)
The Nature of Successful Leadership Practices (2010) (2)
Graduate Curriculum Studies with a Focus on Curriculum Processes. (1983) (2)
Districts, Teacher Leaders, and Distributed Leadership: Changing Instructional Practice WILLIAM A . FIRESTONE AND M . CECILIA MARTINEZ (2009) (1)
The Development and Evaluation of One Strategy for Implementing Change in Schools. (1973) (1)
Studies in Curriculum Decision Making. Symposium Series/13. (1982) (1)
Exploring the Impact of School Leadership on Pupil Outcomes: Sampling strategies. (2007) (1)
Evaluation and the Diffusion of Educational Innovations. (1972) (1)
Final Report of the External Evaluation of England's National Literacy and Numeracy Strategies. Executive Summary: Final Report. Watching & Learning 3. (2003) (1)
Team Learning Processes (2021) (1)
Leading School Districts for Improved Student Success (2021) (1)
Epilogue: Reflections on the Articles in this Issue (2009) (1)
Why teachers leave and return: Report on the feasibility study (2015) (1)
Guest Editor's Introduction: Qualitative Studies of Superintendents’ Leadership for School Improvement (1992) (1)
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Positioning the Prinicipals in Patterns of School Leadership Distribution (2009) (0)
Introduction (2003) (0)
CHAPTER 12 WHAT WE LEARNED : A BROAD VIEW (0)
Leithwood, Kenneth A., "Curriculum Diffusion," pp. 1181-1183 in T. Husen and T. N. Postlethwaite, eds., International Encyclopedia of Education. New York: Pergamon, 1984. (1984) (0)
Individualization Through Diagnostic Testing. (1972) (0)
So You Are on a Summer Writing Team This Year, Are You?. (1976) (0)
The comparative effects of transformational leadership on teachers' commitment to change in Canada and Hong Kong (2001) (0)
Contributors (2004) (0)
2007 Reviewer Honourable Mentions (2007) (0)
Revisiting the Seven Strong Claims about Successful School Leadership (2019) (0)
, K . J 6 Ant Others TITLE Curriculu gitzt ; fat the System Level : A Four Year MathematiciOrOject (2011) (0)
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Preparing schools leaders for the 21st century: An international comparison of needs, development programmes and difficulties (2002) (0)
Team Learning in Secondary Schools. (1997) (0)
Book Reviews (2000) (0)
The Peterborough Mathematics Project. (1976) (0)
Describing Teacher Decision Making. (1982) (0)
Introduction (2004) (0)
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Courses and Patterns of Student Choice. The Individualized System. H.S.1 Studies. (1974) (0)
Leader Efficacy Linking Leadership to Student Learning: The Contributions of (2012) (0)
Education Research in the Canadian Context (2019) (0)
Psychometric properties of the successful school leadership survey (2023) (0)
Appreciation to Reviewers (2007) (0)
Effects of Declining Enrolments on the Curriculum: Perceptions of Supervisory Officers. (1978) (0)
If Schools Matter, Can They Be Improved?@@@School Matters@@@Educational Policy for Effective Schools (1990) (0)
Educational Accountability Effects : An International Pespective: A Special Issue of the Peabody Journal of Education (2001) (0)
Editors Introduction (1984) (0)
The Relationship between Selected Characteristics of Effective Secondary Schools and Student Retention 1 (2022) (0)
Introduction to Special Issue (2007) (0)
REVIEW (2003) (0)
Leithwood, Kenneth A., "Managing the Implementation of Curriculum Innovations," Knowledge: Creation, Diffusion, Utilization, 2(March, 1981), 341-360. (1981) (0)
2005 AERA Annual Meeting Divisional Highlights (2005) (0)
EDRS PRICE MFO 1 / PCO 1 Plus Postage . DESCRIPTORS Administrator Effectiveness ; Elementary Secondary (2012) (0)
Selected Biology Behavioral Objectives and Test Items for Grades 4-6. (1973) (0)

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