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Principals’ well-being: understanding its multidimensional nature School Leadership & Management Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Fei Wang
While well-being of school principals is becoming an increasing concern in public education, the understanding of well-being and its manifestation is still lacking in research. This research tackle...
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Cultivating teacher leadership: evidence form a transformative professional development model School Leadership & Management Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Norma Ghamrawi, Tarek Shal, Najah A.R. Ghamrawi
This study delves into the transformative impact of a professional development model (PDM) across three affiliated private schools in Beirut, Lebanon, spanning three years, with a primary focus on ...
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The leaky pipeline: where ‘exactly’ are these leakages for women leaders in higher education? School Leadership & Management Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Pinar Ayyildiz, Koksal Banoglu
Almost a quarter-century has passed in the new millennium; howoever, the phrase ‘Nihil Novum Sub Sole' is still valid for females struggling to move forward amid a male-dominant world. Structural, ...
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Leading in times of disruption – preparedness, problems, and possibilities part 3 School Leadership & Management Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Rania Sawalhi, Esther Dominique Klein, Paul Campbell
Published in School Leadership & Management: Formerly School Organisation (Vol. 44, No. 1, 2024)
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The organisational context of middle management role behaviour in Hungarian schools School Leadership & Management Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Márta Héreginé Nagy, Sándor Lénárd, László Horváth, Nóra Rapos
Growing evidence suggests that the effectiveness of a school’s operations is determined not by a single leader, but by a community of leaders. Middle managers can coordinate processes in formal pos...
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Caring leadership in early childhood education in Chile: tensions from a highly gendered context School Leadership & Management Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Paula Guerra, Ximena Poblete, Mery Rodriguez, Daniela Figueroa
Educational leadership at early childhood education (ECE) has been extensively studied. However, evidence from Chile is still scarce. As with many parts of the world, the ECE workforce is very fema...
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Contextualised shared leadership: A Canadian case study* School Leadership & Management Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Charles F. Webber, Jodi Nickel, Sarah Hamilton, Dana Braunberger
This account summarises the findings from one component of a six-stage study conducted in multiple international sites. Following a series of interviews, a 10-month case study was conducted in a K-...
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The politics of organisational sensemaking: a theory of sensesplitting School Leadership & Management Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Kate Steilen, Corrie Stone-Johnson, Lea Hubbard
School leadership was transformed by the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. In this crisis, principals organised schooling amidst extreme confusion and uncertainty. Using sensemak...
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A mixed methods investigation of administrators’ and teachers’ perceptions of teacher leadership School Leadership & Management Pub Date : 2023-12-30 Jori S. Beck, KaaVonia Hinton, Peter D. Wiens, Brandon M. Butler
Teacher leadership has received attention for empirical and practical reasons. However, despite the evolution of the concept over the last several decades, there is still dissonance regarding the c...
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Women’s leadership development is everybody’s business: if not now, when? School Leadership & Management Pub Date : 2023-12-30 Barbara Watterston, Lisa C. Ehrich
The focus of this paper lies in our special interest in women leaders and those aspiring to leadership positions in schools and other educational contexts within Australia. Leadership is a gendered...
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Identifying an educational praxis of culturally relevant female school leadership in urban Pakistani schools School Leadership & Management Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Venesser Fernandes, Nikita Pate
Using a culturally relevant leadership lens, this phenomenological study looks at the lived experiences of two female urban school leaders in Pakistani private schools. It highlights the structural...
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The importance of school leadership? What we know School Leadership & Management Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Alma Harris, Michelle Jones
Published in School Leadership & Management: Formerly School Organisation (Vol. 43, No. 5, 2023)
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Establishing an evidence-base for supporting middle leadership practice development in schools School Leadership & Management Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Peter Grootenboer, Sharon Tindall-Ford, Christine Edwards-Groves, Catherine Attard
Amidst ongoing calls for teaching improvement, there has been growing interest in the work of middle leaders in leading school-based curriculum and professional development. Research and policy ini...
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Outlining the distributed leadership practice structure of Chinese schools in Wenzhou: a social network analysis School Leadership & Management Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Jahirul Mullick, Qiusu Wang, Midya Yousefi
This study employs social network analysis (SNA) to identify influential individuals and their communication patterns within Chinese schools in Wenzhou. The research also aims to reveal communicati...
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Female leadership as a process of collective responsibility: the case of Chilean school principals School Leadership & Management Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Andrea Carrasco, Ignacia Palma
This article explores the characteristics of leadership in schools where school principals are female, examining the voices and perceptions of the protagonists of female leadership. Employing a cas...
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Rooted in justice: one Black woman’s unique, intersectional educational leadership journey School Leadership & Management Pub Date : 2023-12-10 Natasha N. Johnson
Historically, there remains an underrepresentation of Black women in and en route to the highest levels of organisational leadership. The divide is all the more pronounced in the field of education...
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Quiet in the mind: women leading during crisis explored through a lens of hope School Leadership & Management Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Nicola Sum
Empirical studies of crisis leadership have historically been limited to analyses of particular events, captured in themes of flexibility, care and the importance of communication as a response. Si...
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Surviving or thriving? Exploring school leaders’ perception of initiated digital transformation School Leadership & Management Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Sara Willermark, Martin Gellerstedt, Pernilla Nilsson
The global pandemic, COVID-19 shattered everyday life as we know it and disrupted education globally. In this study, we explore an initiated digital transformation accelerated by the pandemic from ...
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Leading professional networks in education: developing connected autonomy across the territory? School Leadership & Management Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Cecilia Azorín, Elena Hernández
Networking is one of the essential strategies demanded by society today. In recent years, the use of vertical hierarchies in teaching has been relegated to the background, giving way to other forms...
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Leading in times of disruption – preparedness, problems, and possibilities (Part 2): Zooming in on the possibilities School Leadership & Management Pub Date : 2023-11-12 Esther Dominique Klein, Paul Campbell, Rania Sawalhi
Published in School Leadership & Management: Formerly School Organisation (Vol. 43, No. 4, 2023)
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Teachers’ perceptions toward their new principal School Leadership & Management Pub Date : 2023-11-08 Bernardita Moreno
This study sought to explore teachers’ perceptions of new principals (NPs) and how these perceptions influenced different aspects of their work environment. The research was conducted using case st...
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Experiences of women in middle leadership – barriers and enablers School Leadership & Management Pub Date : 2023-11-08 Pauline Thompson, Helen Stokes
This article reports on research regarding the leadership experience of women middle leaders in secondary schools. Previous research has focused on women in senior leadership in schools. Internatio...
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Pedagogical leadership and gender: the obstacles that female school directors face in Southern Chile School Leadership & Management Pub Date : 2023-10-23 María Pía Torres Zamora, Carolina Villagra Bravo
Despite the progressive advance in the equality of rights and opportunities, a significant number of women who lead school organisations continue to encounter a series of obstacles when it comes to...
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Leading urban school teachers of Black and Brown students during social injustice and the pandemic School Leadership & Management Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Nicole Patterson, Aubrey H. Wang
This case study illustrates how leadership for learning and cultural competence could be used as theories of action during times of disruption to lead and transform urban teachers’ sense of self, s...
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Effects of pre-pandemic school improvement and digital learning on schools during the COVID-19 pandemic School Leadership & Management Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Francesca Suter, Tobias Feldhoff, Katharina Maag Merki, Falk Radisch, Nina Jude, Stefan Brauckmann-Sajkiewicz
After the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, schools had to continuously adapt to new pandemic-related regulations and challenges, including the ad hoc transition to remote learning. According to t...
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The need for school leadership and assessment capability in disruptive times School Leadership & Management Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Lise Vikan Sandvik, Stine Aarønes Angvik, Alex Strømme, Bodil Svendsen, Kari Smith, Oda Aasmundstad Sommervold
This study explores school leaders’ and teachers’ experiences of leadership in assessment during the Covid-19 lockdowns. A total of 148 school leaders and 582 teachers participated in a survey, and...
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Artificial intelligence and school leadership: challenges, opportunities and implications School Leadership & Management Pub Date : 2023-08-27 Michael Fullan, Cecilia Azorin, Alma Harris, Michelle Jones
Published in School Leadership & Management: Formerly School Organisation (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Compassionate leadership School Leadership & Management Pub Date : 2023-07-26 Alma Harris, Michelle Jones
Published in School Leadership & Management: Formerly School Organisation (Vol. 43, No. 3, 2023)
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Findings and derived challenges concerning how school leaders should support ICT integration at schools School Leadership & Management Pub Date : 2023-07-26 Diana K. Rojas Briñez, Josep M. Duart, Álvaro H. Galvis Panqueva
One of the biggest challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic was to integrate ICT (Information and Communication Technology) into remote teaching. As managers, school leaders play a principal role in...
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Leading organisational learning in disadvantaged, low-performing Chilean schools: adaptation and innovation in times of disruption School Leadership & Management Pub Date : 2023-07-19 Álvaro González, Jonathan Santana Valenzuela
The crisis caused by COVID-19 disrupted education worldwide and intensified the difficulties faced by disadvantaged and low-performing schools, with school leaders playing a key role in developing ...
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Leadership in times of crisis: Ontario teachers’ perspectives of system leaders during the COVID-19 pandemic School Leadership & Management Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Stephen MacGregor, Amanda Cooper, Michael Holden
Systemic disruptions and uncertainties resulting from the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic have put extraordinary pressure on system-level educational leadership worldwide. Despite often being seen as d...
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Analysis of school principal training in Catalonia universities: transfer to the practice of principals School Leadership & Management Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Isabel del Arco, Anabel Ramos-Pla, Òscar Flores-Alarcia
This work outlines the results from a study conducted to analyse the different management training programmes developed by Catalan universities, and the transfer of this training from the perspecti...
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Leadership practices of school principals: the case of the multicultural city of Melilla, Spain School Leadership & Management Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Nabila Chilah Abdelkader, Marina García-Carmona, Francisco Javier Hinojo Lucena
Increasingly, school principals face unique challenges to improve the educational quality of their schools. Given the vital role of educational leaders in this process, this study presents the case...
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Middle leaders’ facilitation of teacher learning in collaborative teams School Leadership & Management Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Kylie Lipscombe, Kellie Buckley-Walker, Sharon Tindall-Ford
ABSTRACT There is an increased focus on schools and school systems to develop teaching teams to improve school teaching and learning practices. As such, effectual school leadership has become synonymous with creating the conditions for teachers to work collaboratively to improve school teaching and learning. Middle leaders, teachers who are formally appointed to a leadership role, operate between senior
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Leading in times of disruption – preparedness, problems, and possibilities (Part 1) School Leadership & Management Pub Date : 2023-07-02 Paul Campbell, Esther Dominique Klein, Rania Sawalhi
Published in School Leadership & Management: Formerly School Organisation (Vol. 43, No. 2, 2023)
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Mapping distributed leadership using social network analysis: accompaniment in Québec School Leadership & Management Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Hannah Chestnutt, Trista Hollweck, Nilou Baradaran, María Jiménez
School leaders have the potential to contribute to the collective efficacy of teachers by brokering knowledge and beliefs; however, they are not always supported or accompanied in this role. By exa...
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The practices of middle leaders of mathematics: alignment of their goals and activities School Leadership & Management Pub Date : 2023-04-09 Colleen Vale, Anne Roche, Jill Cheeseman, Ann Gervasoni, Sharyn Livy, Ann Downton
ABSTRACT Leading school mathematics is a complex task and the responsibilities and activities involved are not always clearly defined. School mathematics leaders (SML) in Australian schools are often expected to lead improvement in mathematics teaching and learning. Previous research typically focuses on the qualities of effective leaders rather than the practices of SMLs. Investigated in this study
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Introducing the pillars of equity-oriented crisis leadership: a conceptual framework School Leadership & Management Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Patricia M. Virella
Over the past 36 months, the world has experienced an abundance of crises happening consecutively and concurrently. The COVID-19 pandemic has maintained its stronghold, while the war in Ukraine rag...
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Caught between educational accountability reforms, compliancy and political interference: perspectives of school principals in South Africa School Leadership & Management Pub Date : 2023-03-18 Bongani D. Bantwini, Pontso Moorosi
ABSTRACT In this article, we examine the tension between external educational accountability demands and other [political] forces of interest and possible ways to ensure that schools can still succeed in performing their daily duties and achieving educational goals. We draw from interviews undertaken with school principals in South Africa. Our analysis suggests that the current education accountabilities
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Social justice leadership: a tribute to Kadir Beycioglu School Leadership & Management Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Cecilia Azorín, F. Javier Murillo
ABSTRACT This article is a tribute to Kadir Beycioglu, a Turkish academic who passed away prematurely in August 2021 due to a terrible illness. His death was met with a deep shock and great sadness by all who knew him. The different sections of this article summarise his influential work in the field of educational leadership and social justice and invite the reader to take a brief journey through
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Leading professional networks: different perspectives School Leadership & Management Pub Date : 2023-03-10 Michelle Jones, Cecilia Azorín, Christopher Chapman, Alma Harris
Published in School Leadership & Management: Formerly School Organisation (Vol. 43, No. 1, 2023)
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School leaders’ experiences of high-stakes assessments during the Covid-19 pandemic in England School Leadership & Management Pub Date : 2023-02-19 Lucy Bailey, Mark T. Gibson
ABSTRACT Although various aspects of school leadership during the Covid-19 pandemic have been addressed in the emerging literature, there is a dearth of studies focusing on the effects of the major assessment changes that took place during this period. This article reports on a study of three case-study schools in England, analysing leaders’ experiences of leading high-stakes assessments. The data
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Systematic literature review on organisational culture and strategic management in the public sector and school management School Leadership & Management Pub Date : 2023-02-19 Pedro Henrique de Oliveira, Marco Antonio Catussi Paschoalotto, Fernando César Almada Santos, Thales Botelho de Sousa, Marcelo Seido Nagano
ABSTRACT The purpose of this paper was to verify the use of organisational culture and strategic management in the public sector, specifically in school management. To do this, a systematic literature was used. As a result, we presented a survey of the papers on the state of the art of the subject and analysed the heterogeneity of the returned papers. In addition, we analysed 348 papers presenting
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The crisis you can’t plan for: K-12 leader responses and organisational preparedness during COVID-19 School Leadership & Management Pub Date : 2023-02-05 Craig De Voto, Benjamin M. Superfine
Unlike many types of educational crises, the COVID-19 pandemic was a crisis leaders could not have prepared for. But research is only starting to examine how leaders’ responses and organisational c...
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Responsive, adaptive, and future-centred leadership in response to crisis: findings from Australia, Fiji, and New Zealand School Leadership & Management Pub Date : 2023-02-05 Michelle Striepe, Pauline Thompson, Sylvia Robertson, Mohini Devi, David Gurr, Fiona Longmuir, Adam Taylor, Christine Cunningham
ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic has caused major disruption to education and highlighted the importance of effective leadership during times of crisis. This paper considers the impact of the pandemic on school leaders in Australia, Fiji, and New Zealand. A secondary analysis of data from five interpretivist, qualitative studies was conducted. The aim of the study was to investigate the similarities
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School leadership in uncertain times: identifying dimensions of effective principal leadership School Leadership & Management Pub Date : 2023-02-05 Sonya D. Hayes, Mary Lynne Derrington
Through this study, we address the challenges that U.S. principals faced in the recent COVID crisis and analyse their leadership responses. Our purpose for this study was to identify the leadership...
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Managing up, down, and outwards: principals as boundary spanners during the COVID-19 crisis School Leadership & Management Pub Date : 2023-02-03 Erin Anderson, Jennie Weiner
Using data from a national study on principals’ responses to the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, we describe crisis leadership as boundary spanning – managing up, down, and outwards to lead...
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Sustaining reform implementation: a systematic literature review School Leadership & Management Pub Date : 2023-01-29 Felicity I. McLure, Jill M. Aldridge
ABSTRACT This systematic literature review analysed research related to education reform published between 2000 and 2020. Empirical evidence from 249 studies identified factors hindering or facilitating the long-term success of reform implementation. Eight overarching, actionable themes were found to influence success. Six themes describe requirements at the school level: the need for shared leadership
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Sensemaking in and for times of crisis and change: Irish primary school principals and the Covid-19 pandemic School Leadership & Management Pub Date : 2023-01-29 Gavin Murphy, Dympna Devine
ABSTRACT The Children’s School Lives (CSL) study provides a unique opportunity to learn first-hand from school principals as part of a large national study about their sensemaking as they led in a time of crisis and change in terms of teaching and learning. Major interconnected findings include: (1) the centrality of relationships and communication between school principals, teachers and the wider
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Ambiguity, befuddlement, contestation: competing values in district leaders’ navigation of the COVID-19 pandemic School Leadership & Management Pub Date : 2023-01-09 Jeff Walls, Karen Seashore Louis
ABSTRACT This study explores school district leaders’ strategies for managing the intersecting challenges of ambiguity, befuddlement, and contestation produced by the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on interview data from district leaders in the United States, the analysis is framed in existing research regarding how public administrators navigate competing values when making choices that have implications
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What do school management teams do to make their schools inclusive? School Leadership & Management Pub Date : 2022-12-30 Beatriz Barrero Fernández, María José León Guerrero, Francisco D. Fernández-Martín, José Luís Arco Tirado, Rubén Moreno Arrebola
ABSTRACT The aim of this study is to describe the actions carried out by school management to promote inclusion and the learning of all students, from the perspective of teaching staff (members of management teams and teachers), and to find out whether these initiatives are determined by the school environment, the educational stages taught, and the positions held by the members of the management teams
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Resilience in the context of multiple adverse circumstances? Leadership capacity and teachers’ practice during COVID-19 at schools serving disadvantaged communities School Leadership & Management Pub Date : 2022-12-28 Laura Beckmann, Esther Dominique Klein
ABSTRACT Building and sustaining capacity for organisational learning appears to be a prerequisite for organisational resilience. For schools, organisational learning in crisis situations, such as COVID-19, requires that they have certain learning capacities. Using quasi-longitudinal data, the paper analyses how schools’ leadership capacity (as perceived by educators) at schools serving disadvantaged
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A national discussion on education – so what for school leaders? School Leadership & Management Pub Date : 2022-11-14 Alma Harris, Carol Campbell, Michelle Jones
Published in School Leadership & Management: Formerly School Organisation (Vol. 42, No. 5, 2022)
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Women’s role in nation building: socialising Saudi female preservice teachers into leadership roles School Leadership & Management Pub Date : 2022-10-28 Sue L. T. McGregor, Amani K. Hamdan Alghamdi
ABSTRACT This paper is about socialising Saudi female preservice teachers (PSTs) while they are attending university into the role of educational leadership. This leadership role should be broadened to include nation building per the tenets of Saudi Arabia’s national development plan, Vision 2030. After discussing nation building and profiling the Saudi educational context (including educational reform
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Leading and supporting: principals reflect on their task as pedagogical leaders of Swedish school-age educare School Leadership & Management Pub Date : 2022-10-27 Björn Haglund, Lena Glaés-Coutts
ABSTRACT Principals in Sweden face leadership challenges as pedagogical leaders of School-age educare Centers (SAECs). This study examines how principals identify both professional development needs as well as challenges they face in supporting the SAEC teachers. The empirical data is based on reflections from 29 principals and vice-principals from four different municipalities in Sweden, which were
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Middle leadership practices in secondary schools associated with improved student outcomes School Leadership & Management Pub Date : 2022-10-27 Camilla Highfield, Christine Rubie-Davies
ABSTRACT This paper describes findings related to the effectiveness of secondary school middle leaders as a contributor to within-school variation in academic results for students at department level in urban high schools. The ‘high-stakes’ academic assessment results for students in 10 urban high schools in New Zealand in English, mathematics and science were collated over three years. The analyses
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Supporting beginning principals to survive and thrive in the role: a systematic review of literature School Leadership & Management Pub Date : 2022-10-24 Jodie L. Watts
ABSTRACT This review provides a synthesis of research from the past decade on beginning principals and the professional supports they access to cope with role-related demands. The synthesis is based on empirical research studies conducted from the perspectives of beginning principals and contributes to the knowledge base on principal wellbeing and retention. Findings indicate that this field is still
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Distributed leadership: taking a retrospective and contemporary view of the evidence base School Leadership & Management Pub Date : 2022-10-20 Alma Harris, Michelle Jones, Nashwa Ismail
ABSTRACT Distributed leadership is one of the most influential and well-discussed ideas to emerge in the field of educational leadership. Prompted by the foundational and seminal work of Spillane et al. (2001) the idea of shared or ‘stretched’ leadership that incorporates both formal and informal leaders, has been of interest to researchers, policy-makers practitioners and educational reformers around
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Teachers leading enquiry School Leadership & Management Pub Date : 2022-10-19 Alma Harris, Michelle Jones
Published in School Leadership & Management: Formerly School Organisation (Vol. 42, No. 4, 2022)
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Capturing interactions between middle leaders and teacher entrepreneurial behaviour: an examination through a person-environment fit model School Leadership & Management Pub Date : 2022-09-14 Chun Sing Maxwell Ho, Darren Anthony Bryant, Allan David Walker
ABSTRACT Limited but increasing research has noted that middle leaders (MLs) play a crucial role in structuring a supportive working environment to help entrepreneurial teachers transform educational innovation into practice. This study aims to increase understanding of the extent to which MLs with different levels of experience influence teacher entrepreneurial behaviour (TEB). The study employs the