Description: Spillane and Lowenhaupt present research-based guidance for transitioning into the principal position and negotiating its most complicated challenges, including values-based conflicts that resist easy resolution.
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James P. Spillane is the Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Professor in Learning and Organizational Change at the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University. He has published extensively on issues of education policy, policy implementation, school reform, and school leadership.