This text integrates the core instructional leadership tasks of all principals: supervision, evaluation, and professional development. It is a practical, hands-on approach based on sound theory and research. The text provides both a conceptual frame and practical exercises that contemporary principals can use in their supervision, evaluation, and professional development activities. The models for these tasks are research-based and reflect the current realities that confront principals and others committed to improving instruction. The book provides a practical, hands-on, research-based approach for pre-service and practicing principles to help them integrate core instructional leadership tasks in their practice: supervision, evaluation and professional development This text integrates the core instructional leadership tasks of all principals: supervision, evaluation, and professional development. Pre-service and practicing principles

Wayne K. Hoy was selected as the Fawcett Chair in Educational Administration at The Ohio State University.