I. Vision of learning shared with the community 

• Wisconsin’s Information Network for Successful Schools
  http://www.dpi.state.wi.us/sig/
  Links to two areas of benefit: creating a school vision about learning and citizenship for all students and sources of research about developing a common vision

• Steve Stanley, President of Analyze and Apply, Inc.
  http://www.analyze-apply.com/Visionforlearning.html
  Discusses the need for vision for any organization’s success as a vision of learning in the information age.

• Coalition for Community Schools
  http://www.communityschools.org/commentary.html
  Ira Harkavy and Martin Blank present research and experience that discusses a vision of learning that goes beyond testing.

• Bucklands Beach Intermediate School, Auckland N. Z.
  http://www.bbi.school.nz/staffimages/Helsinki%20paper-Developing.htm
  Ian Fox, Principal provides a model for development of a vision of learning which incorporates community and reflects over ten years of effort.  Full text which was presented at the ICP Conference at Helsinki may be found at http://www.aspa.asn.au/Downloads/IanFox1.pdf  The Australian Secondary Principals Association supports the site.

• Leading and Learning for the 21st Century
  http://www.leading-learning.co.nz/creating-vision.html
  Presents key issues regarding the process of vision development for quality learning.

• People:  Our Focus for the Future, Northwest Territories
  http://stratplan.learnnet.nt.ca/strat_94/part1.htm
  First three chapters focus on need for a vision and the establishment of the vision of learning for school success.

• SERVE (Southeast Regional Vision for Education Research Lab)
  http://www.serve.org/
  Numerous links to vision development and learning sites.

• National Education Goals Panel
  http://www.negp.gov/issues/publication/negpdocs/106.html
  This site provides information on Creating a Community Action Plan: An Overview.

• North Central Regional Educational Laboratory
  http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/educatrs/leadrshp/le100.htm
  The site provides discussion on the building of a collective vision.

• Ravenwerks Information Center
  http://www.ravenwerks.com/leadership/vision.htm
  Cite looks at the value of vision to leadership and management. 

II. School culture and Instructional Program conducive to learning & Professional Development

• North Central Regional Educational Laboratory
  http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/rpl_esys/assess.htm
  Discusses the issue of why assessment should be based on a vision of learning

• Wisconsin’s Information Network for Successful Schools
  http://www.dpi.state.wi.us/sig/practices/professional.html
  Best practices in the area of professional development

• Perspectives On Education Policy Research
  http://www.ed.gov/pubs/EffectiveLeaders/summary.html
  http://www.ed.gov/pubs/EffectiveLeaders/index.html
  First sight listed is the summary of the entire effective leadership piece and discusses the leadership skills needed to focus on instructional leadership and programs conducive to student learning.

• University of Temple – Laboratory for Student Success (LSS)
  http://www.temple.edu/lss/eduleadership.htm
  The site allows exploration of applied research, advanced technologies for learning and comprehensive school reform for student learning.

• Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory:  Catalog of School Reform Models
  http://www.nwrel.org/scpd/catalog/index.shtml
  Descriptions of 26 whole-school models of instruction conducive to student learning plus additional entries on reading/language arts models.

• California State University, Bakersfield – Dr. Louis Wildman
  http://www.csub.edu/~lwildman/B10_1.htm
  Excellent knowledge base outline relating educational administration to educational, instructional and administrative foundations.

• University of North Carolina Center for School Leadership
  http://21stcenturyschools.northcarolina.edu/center/
  Site links to seven professional development programs in North Carolina as well as numerous other valuable sites.

• Massachusetts Charter School Best Practices Web Library
  http://www.masscharterschools.org/
  Provides best practices, curriculum, government and administration information as it relates to charter schools from a national perspective.

• Middle Web
  http://www.middleweb.com/
  Good resource information for all who are working to raise achievement for students in the middle grades.

• University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA)
  http://www.ucea.org
  This website hosts a consortium of higher education institutions committed to advancing the preparation and practice of educational leaders for the benefit of schools and student educational success.

III. Management for safe, efficient and effective learning

• Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
  http://www.informs.org/Conf/Montreal98/TALKS/ME32.html
  Links four different areas of school management:  evaluation, school improvement, private management and assessment of productivity.

• Society for the Advancement of Excellence in Education
  http://www.saee.bc.ca/old_rprt.html
  Links to management information regarding school gains,

• American Association of School Administrators
  http://www.aasa.org/publications/sa/1997_01/amprey.htm
  When a search for “school management” is done within the AASA website numerous appropriate sites are found.

• Brent G. Wilson, “Constructivist Learning Environments:  Case Studies in instructional design”
  http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~bwilson/metaphor.html
  Site provides four excerpts from the book cited above.

• Bryan Painter and Jerry Valentine
  http://www.adaproject.org/~elpamcsi/r-mcsi/26.html
  Seven elements of an effective learning environment:  Classroom implications

• Basic Education and Policy Support
  http://www.beps.net/
  This website focuses on improvement and expansion of basic education for underserved populations.

• Council of Chief State School Officers
  http://www.ccsso.org/
  http://www.ccsso.org/projects/state_action_for_education_leadership/
  The first link provides a variety of information relevant to several standards.  The second provides documents reflecting current changes in leadership policy. 

• Southern Regional Education Board (SREB)
  http://www.sreb.org/main/Leadership/pubs/Preparing_A_New_Breed.asp
  This site organization conducts research on many educational policy and practice related issues.  Preparing a New Breed of Principal:  It’s Time for Action deals with school reform, student achievement and educational leadership. 

• National School Safety and Security Services
  http://www.schoolsecurity.org
  This website displays an independent, national consulting firm specializing in school security and crisis preparedness training, security assessments, and related safety consulting for schools, law enforcement, public safety and other youth safety providers.

• School Law
  http://www.schoollaw.com
  Provides easy access to the legal information and resources that school administrators need in order to plan for efficient and effective schools. 

IV. Collaborating & responding to diverse community & mobilizing resources

• Wisconsin’s Information Network for Successful Schools
  http://www.dpi.state.wi.us/sig/practices/family.html
  Links to four areas of community / school partnership development 

• Center on School, Family and Community Partnerships
  http://www.csos.jhu.edu/p2000/default.htm
  Focuses on family, community and school working together for the betterment of student learning. 

• Coalition for Community Schools
  http://www.communityschools.org/new.html
  This website provides new information regarding schools reaching out to community and youth organizations. 

• EdSource Online
  http://www.edsource.org/edu_part.cfm
  California based site that provides links to partnership and community involvement.

• Strengthening Partnerships:  Community School Assessment Checklist
  http://www.communityschools.org/assessmentnew.pdf
  The site consists of a checklist of items that concern partnerships among family, school and community.

• Ford Family Foundation
  http://www.tfff.org/main/active/rcsp
  Website considers the unique concerns of rural community school partnerships and provides links to additional sites.

• Career Programs
  http://www.sd23.bc.ca/distprog/careerprograms/partnerships.html
  Focuses on career preparation and the role community partnerships can provide for students and schools.

• Collection Development Training for Arizona Public Libraries
  http://www.dlapr.lib.az.us/cdt/commneeds.htm
  The website provides links concerning what a needs assessment can provide, how to conduct a needs assessment and further resources.

• Laboratory for Community and Economic Development
  http://www.communitydevelopment.uiuc.edu/resources/factsheets/needpuls.html
  Provides discussion of community assessment and links to further information useful to schools.

• Beyond Main Street:  Mobilizing Community Resources
  http://www.aeci.org/programs/econdev/pdf/mobintro.pdf
  Associated Electric provides an outline for community resource mobilization which may assist school personnel in the process of school/community resource mobilization.

V.    Integrity, fairness and ethical 

• Larry Lashway
  http://eric.uoregon.edu/publications/digests/digest107.html
  Website is an ERIC site that presents the article Ethical Leadership by Lashway. 

• Center for Ethical Leadership
  http://www.ethicalleadership.org/
  The non-profit leadership development and training organization helps identify core values, apply those values to important decisions.  Links to core values identification tool. 

• Larry Nucci at University of Illinois at Chicago
  http://tigger.cc.uic.edu/~lnucci/MoralEd/practices/leaderseminar.html
  Website provides a discussion of ethical leadership with references.

• Ethical Edge
  http://www.ethicaledge.com/quest_4.html
  The website concerns the role of leadership in organizational integrity and five modes of ethical leadership.  Site may be searched and contains links. 

• Eye-Online
  http://www.cyc-net.org/cyc-online/cycol-0600-ethics.html
  Eric document discussing ethics in leadership with resources at the end of the article.

• Federico J Rodriguez
  http://www.shsu.edu/~creitheo/Rodriguez.pdf
  Paper discusses redesigning leadership as an ethical and innovative approach to empowerment. 

• Jo Dipnall and Denise Jepsen
  http://www.cognetive.com.au/Ethics-102001.pdf
  Presents a comparative study of internet and paper respondents to the question of ethics in leadership.

• AASA Professor
  http://www.aasa.org/publications/tap/index.htm
  This website provides articles that focus on a number of issues including ethics and fairness in education, research and best practices.  Site can be searched.

• University of Toronto Profile Document on School Leadership
  http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/~vsvede/
  This site provides detailed profiles of the principal as a manager, instructional leader, community facilitator, vision builder and problem solver.

• Institute for Educational Leadership
  http://www.iel.org/
  The website provides links to various programs which include the Coalition for Community Schools and School Leadership for the 21st Century as well as others. 

VI. Political, social, economic, legal and cultural context

• National School Boards Association School Law Site
  http://www.nsba.org/site/page_nestedcats.asp?TRACKID=&CID=64&DID=196
  Free school law resources, including briefs on current and developing issues on athletics, curriculum, employment, equity and discrimination, finance, health, liability, NCLB, religion, school safety, student rights, technology, etc.

• West Law
  http://www.westlaw.com
  This fee-based website provides a comprehensive database on various types of legal cases and legal issues.

• American Planning Association
  http://www.planning.org
  A useful source for information for resources regarding planning issues for school and community. 

• National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP)
  http://www.naesp.org/
  The information at this site is useful for enhancing the professional development of elementary principals and contains articles regarding influencing and responding to the cultural context.

• National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP)
  http://www.nassp.org
  The bulletin provides many best practices and current state articles regarding leadership including issues of political, social, and legal context.

• Education Law Association
  http://www.educationlaw.org/
  This website supports various education law issues and serves as a resource for educators.

• Wright’s Law
  http://www.wrightslaw.com/
  This site focuses on links to hundreds of special education law and advocacy articles, newsletters, cases, and practical guides for parents, advocates, and attorneys.

• Education Index
  http://www.educationindex.com/
  An annotated directory of reviewed education-related sites on the Web is sorted by subject and life stage at this site.  Many deal with the leader influencing the cultural context of the school.

• Educational Administration and Supervision Resources
  http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/education/edadmin/resources.heml
  This site puts the leader in touch with web and other resources on a very wide variety of leadership topics and concerns, including standard 6.

• Education World
  http://www.education-world.com/
  This website supports school administrators and teachers by providing information on curriculum, school administration, special themes, and educational web reviews.

• Education Week
  http://www.edweek.org
  The archives can be searched for any topic of interest and many current legal, social, economic and cultural context articles are thoroughly discussed.