"Authors who have been involved in developing new strategies for leadership practice provide perspectives on educational change and current experience in the United Kingdom, Israel, and the United States. Their personally significant themes demonstrate that in response to fundamental change, new leadership cultures are essential to the development of more effective schools. For school communities and practitioners these changes bring new responsibilities together with associated opportunities for professional leadership at school level."--BOOK JACKET. "It is hoped these international perspectives will enhance understanding of the positive realities of earned leadership processes and contribute to a clarifying dialogue along the professional highway toward more effective schools."--Jacket.