Creating Instructional Capacity: A Framework for Creating Academic Press

This book covers "academic press", the effective management of the core technology of schooling, the three parts of the instructional program: instruction, curriculum, and assessment. This book is about building instructional capacity in the role of leadership to improve school culture.

“"This book is a practical synthesis of what we know about fostering instructional improvement that should be a required read for every principal. Murphy goes to the heart of leadership by focusing on what can be done in any school or community to strengthen teachers' capacity to serve all students. There are no simple checklists, but a wise distillation of core ideas that will work in complex settings."”

-- Karen Seashore Louis, Regents Professor "Over the past decade increasing emphasis has been given by scholars, policymakers and practitioners to the role leaders play in building the capacity of schools to improve teaching and learning. This volume provides a sound foundation for thinking about the meaning of 'capacity' as well as the tools leaders can use for productive impact." -- Dr. Philip Hallinger

Joseph F. Murphy is the Frank W. Mayborn Chair and associate dean at Peabody College of Education at Vanderbilt University. He has also been a faculty member at the University of Illinois and The Ohio State University, where he was the William Ray Flesher Professor of Education.

In the public schools, he has served as an administrator at the school, district, and state levels, including an appointment as the executive assistant to the chief deputy superintendent of public instruction in California. His most recent appointment was as the founding president of the Ohio Principals Leadership Ac

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