Seashore, KarenFebey, KarenGordon, MollyMeath, JudyThomas, EmandaCenter for Applied Research and Educational Improvement2007-08-212007-08-212006-06https://hdl.handle.net/11299/2310The research is a joint project between the University of Minnesota’s Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement (CAREI) and the University of Toronto’s Ontario Institute for the Study of Education (OISE). Lead researchers Kyla Wahlstrom (CAREI) and Kenneth Leithwood (OISE), along with Stephen Anderson, Karen Seashore Louis, Michael Michlin, and Blair Mascall are collaborators for one of the largest studies of educational leadership ever undertaken.The results of this study describe the nature of successful leadership practices at the state, district and school levels. The study is also identifying how those practices shape instructional behaviors of teachers which ultimately lead to improved student learning. This research is part of a 5-year, $3.5 million research project funded by the Wallace Foundation (New York) examining the effect of educational leadership on student achievement.en-USeducational leadershipleadership and administrationlearning from leadershipstudent achievementstate leadershipReport