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System Leadership for Continuous Improvement: The Role of District-Level Leaders in Creating the Conditions for System-Wide Improvement

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System Leadership for Continuous Improvement: The Role of District-Level Leaders in Creating the Conditions for System-Wide Improvement
Abstract/Description
Educational researchers and practitioners are increasingly interested in continuous improvement as a systemic approach to improving student outcomes at scale. System leadership is among the most crucial factors in conditioning the uptake and integration of continuous improvement methods across a local educational authority or school district. Scant research exists, however, to shed light on the role of system leaders in creating district-wide conditions for continuous improvement. This chapter examines literature at the intersection of the fields of quality improvement, education, and leadership to synthesize current research-based knowledge about leadership behaviors that create the conditions for systemic continuous improvement in school districts. We develop an initial conceptual framework and then draw on relevant case studies and literature reviews, using an adaptation of the systematic review method of framework-based synthesis. Our review highlights how successful leaders of continuous improvement think, what they do, and where they focus their efforts to address complex, systemic challenges. The chapter concludes with a discussion of key themes, an elaboration of the initial conceptual framework, and proposed questions for research on leadership at the district level for systemic continuous improvement.
Author/creator
Dixon, Christina J.
Eddy-Spicer, David H.
Date
2018
In publication
Leading Holistically
Publisher
Routledge
Resource type
en Research/Scholarly Media
Resource status/form
en Published Text
Scholarship genre
en Theoretical
en Synthesis/Overview
Open access/full-text available
en No
ISBN
978-0-203-71218-4
DOI
10.4324/9780203712184-8 (Book)
URL
Official Publisher's Webpage (Talor & Francis)
Citation
Dixon, C. J., & Eddy-Spicer, D. (2018). System Leadership for Continuous Improvement: The Role of District-Level Leaders in Creating the Conditions for System-Wide Improvement. In H. Shaked, C. Schechter, & A. J. Daly (Eds.), Leading Holistically: How Schools, Districts, and States Improve Systemically (pp. 141–157). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203712184-8

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