Five critical leadership practices : the secret to high-performing schools / Ruth C. Ash and Pat H. Hodge.

A Creating an organizational culture
Working with others to support, encourage, or require high performance
Using a vision, mission, and strategic plan to make decisions and inform actions
Working with others to create a powerful organizational structure
Leading an organization in becoming agile and flexible
Leading others in developing, maintaining, and improving processes that increase the effectiveness of the organization
Creating a vision and culture that focus on student learning and student needs
Providing instructional leadership
Leading the development of guidelines and procedures for learning
Ensuring that key data are analyzed in a deliberate manner
Using data and current research to improve student learning
Communicating key data to all stakeholders
Establishing an environment of daily learning for all
Challenging the status quo and working with others to achieve change goals
Implementing methods to motivate, support, and/or encourage innovation
Conclusion
Appendix A: data analysis tools
Appendix B: five critical practices school or district inventory
Appendix C: five critical practices framework.