Academic leadership directly helps faculty members, administrative leaders, and professional support persons improve the quantity and quality of student learning. Those who regularly lead decision-making and action-taking processes in curriculum, instruction, and assessment of student learning can be called academic leaders. This article focuses on the need for improved academic leadership and examines models suggested by the Curriculum Leadership Institute, Southern Regional Education Board, and the Boston School Leadership Institute.
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