Leadership Content Knowledge

By Mary Kay Stein, B. Nelson. 2003

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Subfields: Education, Information Systems and Management, Sociology and Political Science

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Coaching for Coherence: How Instructional Coaches Lead Change in the Evaluation Era (2017, background): “To enable learning aligned with these reforms, teachers benefit from ongoing and embedded professional learning opportunities (Darling-Hammond & McLaughlin, 1995) that incorporate instructional and content expertise (Hochberg & Desimone, 2010; Stein & Nelson, 2003).”
Principals' influence on instructional quality: insights from US schools (2010, background): “CSR programs such as SFA not only lend guidance for the coaching role and responsibility, they often ensure that principals have opportunities to gain content knowledge and increase their own leadership capacity (Stein and Nelson 2003 ).”
The Impact of Leadership on Student Outcomes: An Analysis of the Differential Effects of Leadership Types (2008, background): “…to be bridged by a resurgence of interest in instructional leadership and calls for more focus on the knowledge and skills that leaders need to support teacher learning about how to raise achievement while reducing disparity (Prestine & Nelson, 2005; Stein & Nelson, 2003; Stein & Spillane, 2005).”
Triangulating Principal Effectiveness (2011, background): “Triangulating Principal Effectiveness”
Testing a Conception of How School Leadership Influences Student Learning (2010, background): “It is often claimed that improving student learning is all about improving instruction (Nelson & Sassi, 2005; Stein & Nelson, 2003).”
From Instructional Leadership to Leadership Capabilities: Empirical Findings and Methodological Challenges (2010, background): “They define leadership content knowledge as “that knowledge of subjects and how students learn them that is used by administrators when they function as instructional leaders” (Stein & Nelson, 2003, p. 445).”
External mandates and instructional leadership: school leaders as mediating agents (2012, background): “The professional challenges include developing the capabilities required to engage in the practices described as instructional leadership (Nelson and Sassi, 2005; Robinson, 2011; Stein and Nelson, 2003).”
The Interpersonal Challenges of Instructional Leadership (2015, background): “In an attempt to make them applicable to a range of school contexts neither of them required highly specialist content knowledge (Stein & Nelson, 2003).”
Negotiating Identities for Mathematics Teaching in the Context of Professional Development (2011, background): “…practices that focus on conceptual understanding as well as procedural facility, then it is important that school and district leaders recognize such practices as instances of good mathematics teaching (Cobb & Smith, 2008; Gamoran et al., 2003; Nelson & Sassi, 2005; Stein & Nelson, 2003).”
Design Research with Educational Systems: Investigating and Supporting Improvements in the Quality of Mathematics Teaching and Learning at Scale (2013, background): “Some researchers propose that school leaders should, in effect, act as coaches and that they need a deep understanding of the mathematical content on which instruction focuses, students’ mathematical learning, and teacher learning (Nelson & Sassi, 2005; Stein & Nelson, 2003).”
How does leadership affect student achievement? Results from a national US survey (2010, background): “While some scholars emphasize the importance of principals’ deep understanding of curricular content and instructional materials (Stein & Nelson, 2003), others pay more attention to principals’ support for improved instruction (Leithwood, 2001; O’Donnell & White, 2005).”