Bartalo, an instructional leadership developer and coach with experience as a teacher, teacher leader, principal, and superintendent, explains how school leaders with some background in instructional leadership can improve teaching methods to maximize student learning through eight reform principles: developing an in-depth understanding of teaching and learning, maintaining an insider's understanding of the school's culture of teaching, inspiring teachers to create better learning opportunities, working with teachers to change methods where students are not succeeding, supporting teacher improvement, helping teachers learn more, developing a theory of action perspective, and using self-reflection and staff feedback. For each, he includes the experiences of instructional leaders, case illustrations, key research, and ways to apply the ideas. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)