Leading knowledgeably:

• Opening the black box of instruction
• Pursuing the precision quest.
• Linking the results: compare yourself with i) yourself (starting point), ii) other schools, and iii) external benchmarks.
• Develop a culture of improvement. Precision of practice and transparency of practice and its connection to results. Learning is the work.
• Learning during performance:
• Identify critical knowledge
• Transfer knowledge using job instruction
• Verify learning and success.
• Transformational leadership three time less effective than 'instructional or pedagogical leadership'

Leading learning communities:

• "'School improvement is most surely and thoroughly achieved when teachers engage in frequent, continuous and increasingly concrete talk about teaching practices… build up a shared language.. capable of distinguishing one practice and it's virtue from another" (Little)