A policy and political history of educational supervision -- Foundations in adult development and learning: implications for educational supervision -- Theories of professions and the status of teaching -- Job-embedded learning: how school leaders can use job-embedded learning as a mechanism for school improvement -- Instructional supervision in the era of high-stakes accountability -- Accountability, control, and teachers' work in American schools -- Coming to understand the wicked problem of teacher evaluation -- Discretion and trust in professional supervisory practices -- Managing collaborative inquiry for continuously better practice: a cross-industry perspective -- Observation, feedback, and reflection -- Teacher mentoring in service of beginning teachers' learning to teach: critical review of conceptual and empirical literature -- Peer coaching in education: from partners to faculties and districts -- From supervision to "super vision:" a developmental approach to collaboration and capacity building -- Encouraging reflective practice in educational supervision through action research and appreciative inquiry -- National policy/standards: changes in instructional supervision since the implementation of recent federal legislation -- Teacher performance assessments mandated during the Duncan era -- Principal supervisors and the challenge of principal support and development -- The principal: building the future based on the past -- Necessity is the mother of re-invention: making teaching excellence the norm through policy and established clinical practice -- Improving teacher practice based knowledge: what teachers need to know and how they come to know it -- Shaping the school-wide learning environment through supervisory leadership -- High performing teachers, student achievement, and equity as an outcome of educational supervision -- Supervisory identity: cultural shift, critical pedagogy, and the crisis of supervision -- Conflicts, convergence, and wicked problems: the evolution of educational supervision.