This classic market leading title in instructional leadership and supervision continues to challenge the conventional purposes, practices, structure, and language of successful education. This ground breaking book, now in its fifth edition, further challenges and bridges the boundaries of Supervision, Instructional Leadership, Educational Change, and School Success. The change in title to Supervision and Instructional Leadership signifies the need and reality of viewing school improvement as a whole, accounting for complexity, paradoxes, and shifting reforms. This book once again pushes into new frontiers of thinking and practice. For those involved in Leadership positions. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.