This book explores what specialists are saying about system leadership for school improvement. Case studies examine innovative approaches to sharing leadership across schools in Belgium (Flanders), Finland and the United Kingdom (England) and leadership development programmes for system improvement in Australia and Austria. As these are emerging practices, the book provides a first international comparison and assessment of the state of the art of system leadership. Following an Executive Summary, the book includes nine chapters: (1) Introduction; (2) Realising the Potential of System Leadership (David Hopkins); (3) Leadership as the Practice of Improvement (Richard F. Elmore); (4) The Finnish Approach to System Leadership (Andrew Hargreaves, Gabor Halasz and Beatriz Pont); (5) The English Approach to System Leadership (Stephan Huber, Hunter Moorman and Beatriz Pont); (6) The Flemish (Belgian) Approach to Systems Leadership (Christopher Day, Jorunn Moller, Deborah Nusche and Beatriz Pont); (7) Building Leadership Capacity for System Improvement in Victoria, Australia (Peter Matthews, Hunter Moorman, and Deborah Nusche); (8) Building Leadership Capacity for System Improvement in Austria (Louise Stoll, Hunter Moorman, and Sibylle Rahm); and (9) Approaches to System Leadership Lessons Learned and Policy Pointers (Beatriz Pont and David Hopkins.) [For "Improving School Leadership. Volume 1: Policy and Practice", see ED504576.]