Building Leadership Capacity in Schools

by Linda Lambert

Looks at leadership in schools and offers stories of three schools--an elementary school with low leadership capacity, a middle school with moderate leadership capacity, and a high school with high leadership capacity--revealing how educators can lead their communities to improve student learning.

Genres: Leadership, Education

136 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1998

About the author

Linda Lambert earned her Ed.D. at the University of San Francisco and is Professor Emeritus from California State University, East Bay, and a full time author. Her new novel, The Italian Letters--the sequel to award-winning, The Cairo Codex--will be released October, 2014. Linda’s career has included the following roles: social worker, teacher, principal, district and county directors of professor development, as well as university professor, state department envoy to Egypt, and international consultant. Her international consultancies in leadership have taken her to Egypt, Lebanon, England, Thailand, Mexico, Canada, and Malaysia. Linda is the author of dozens of articles and lead author of The Constructivist Leader (1995, 2002), Who Will Save Our Schools (1997), and Women’s Ways of Leading (2009); she is the author of Building Leadership Capacity in Schools (1998) and Leadership Capacity for Lasting School Improvement (2003). Linda lives with her husband, Morgan, a retired school superintendent, in Santa Rosa, California, and writes historical novels.

Reviews

[Kathryn · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read this as part of my masters in education program. Now Know Lambet as novelist

[Lina Scalfino · Rating 5 out of 5]

Linda still one of the best books ever on leadership and culture building. I love your work and will always appreciate your wisdom and our meeting to discuss the nature of leadership.