The Finnish context

Alava, J., Halttunen, L. & Risku, M. (2012). Changing school management. Status review - May 2012. Finnish National Board of Education Publications 2012:13

Darlington-Hammond, L. (2010) Steady Work: Finland "Builds a Strong Teaching and Learning System” in Rethinking Schools (2010), Volume 24, Number 4. Republished in http://www.nea.org/home/40991.htm.

Ministry of Education (2011) Education and research 2012-2016. A development plan. In http://www.minedu.fi/export/sites/default/OPM/Julkaisut/2012/liitteet/okm03.pdf?lang=en.

Finnish National Board of Education (2011). Learning and competence 2020 in http://www.oph.fi/english/publications/2011/learning_and_competence_2020

Kupiainen, S., Hautamäki, J. & Karjalainen, T. (2009) The Finnish education system and PISA. Ministry of Education Publications, Finland 2009:46. In http://www.okm.fi/OPM/Julkaisut/2009/The_Finnish_education_system_and_PISA.html?lang=en.

Pedagogical and distributed leadership

Colvin, G. (2010). Talent Is Overrated. What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else. New York: Penquin Books. http://analizamatematicampt.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/talent-is_overrated-what-really-separates-world-class-performers-from-everybody-else.pdf

MacNeill, N., Cavanagh, R. & Silcox, S. (2005). Pedagogic leadership: Refocusing on Learning and Teaching. International Electronic Journal for Leadership in Learning. http://iejll.synergiesprairies.ca/iejll/index.php/ijll/article/view/402

Murphy, J. (2005). Connecting teacher leadership and school improvement. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.

Hardgreaves, A. & Shirley, D. (2009). The Fourth Way: The Inspiring Future for Educational Change. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.(The idea of fourth way can be found: Paving the Fourth Way: The Singapore story, chapter IV.)

Sheppard, B., Hurley, N. & Dibbon, D. (2010) Distributed Leadership, Teacher Morale, and Teacher Enthusiasm: Unravelling the Leadership Pathways to School Success. Paper presented at American Educational Research Association Denver, Colorado May 2010. In http://www.eric.ed.gov/PDFS/ED509954.pdf

Spillane, J.P. (2006). Distributed leadership. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. (Chapters 2 and 3 are the important ones.)

Supplementary readings

Sahlberg, P. (2007). Education policies for raising student learning: the Finnish approach. World Bank, Washington, DC,USA. In http://pasisahlberg.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Education-policies-for-raising-learning-JEP.pdf

Blase, J.R. & Blase, J. (2004). Handbook of Instructional Leadership: How successful Principals Promote Teaching and Learning. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin.

Caldwell, B. & Spinks, J. Raising the Stakes From improvement to transformation in the reform of schools. Routledge. London and New York.

• Chapter 8 A student-focused planning model
• Chapter 9 Student-focused planning in action

Darling-Hammond, L. (2011) U.S. vs highest-achieving nations
in education. Washington Post. In
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/darling-hammond-us-vs-highest-achieving-nations-in-education/2011/03/22/ABkNeaCB_blog.html

Duke, Daniel (2004). The Challenges of Educational Change.Boston: Pearson Education. ISBN 0-205-36020-3

Finnish National Core Curriculum 2004. www.oph.fi/english/publications/2009/

Harris, A. (2008). Distributed School Leadership. Developing tomorrow`s leaders. London: Routledge

Leithwood, K., Jantzi, D., & Steinbach, R. (1999) Changing leadership for changing times. Buckingham: Open University Press.

Ministry of Education and Culture (2011) The results of PISA 2009. In http://www.minedu.fi/pisa/2009.html?lang=en.

Ngaajieh Nnane, R. (2009). An exploration of principals´ and teachers´ perception of teacher leadership in Finland: the case of four upper secondary schools in Jyväskylä. In https://jyx.jyu.fi/dspace/handle/123456789/21801

OECD (2011) OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). In http://www.pisa.oecd.org/pages/0,3417,en_32252351_32235731_1_1_1_1_1,00.html.

Svedberg, L. (2004) Rhetorical Resources for Management The Leading Words. Educational Management Administration & Leadership. Vol 32(4) 423–438. In http://ema.sagepub.com/content/32/4/423.full.pdf+html.

Viitala, R. (2004) Towards knowledge leadership. Leadership and Organization Developmetn Journal. Vol 25, Issue 6. In http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?articleid=1410741&show=abstract.

Zohar, D. (1997) Rewiring the Corporate Brain. San Francisco: Berrett-Kohler Publishers.

Ärlestig, H. (2008) Communication between Principals and Teachers in Successful School. Pedagogiska institutionen. Umeå universitet.

• Chapter II, pp.25-27 To meet curriculum objectives – pedagogical leadership
• Article III Structural prerequisites for principals’ and teachers’ communication about teaching and learning issues
• Article IV In School Communication: Developing a Pedagogically Focused School Culture
• Chapter V, pp.52 -55 Principals’ communication as pedagogical leaders
• In http://umu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:142460/FULLTEXT03