Drawing on twenty years of research in school effectiveness this book presents a distributed model of task-based school leadership that leads to continuous school improvement The book outlines the tasks school leadership teams must focus on to improve teaching & learning grouped into the following five domains Focus on Learning Monitoring Teaching & Learning Building Nested Learning Communities Acquiring & Allocating Resources Maintaining a Safe & Effective Learning Environment Recognizing that the principal is a single actor in a complex web of activity influencing student learning the focus is not only on the principal s role but on a range of leadership & instructional practices to be shared across the leadership team (including APs counselors teachers & support personnel) These tasks organized into 21 subdomains have been demonstrated through extensive research to contribute to enhanced student learning