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Hallinger, Philip – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2018
Research on educational leadership and management has resulted in the accumulation of increasingly persuasive findings concerning the impact school leadership can have on school performance. Indeed, there is a growing consensus that there exists a generic set of leadership practices (e.g. goal setting, developing people) which must be adapted to…
Descriptors: Leadership Qualities, Leadership Effectiveness, Leadership, School Administration
Higham, Rupert; Booth, Tony – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2018
To what extent can heads use an inclusive values-led approach to school development in the face of pressures from Ofsted and their Local Authority to focus almost exclusively on attainment outcomes? We explore leadership of school improvement in a qualitative study of 10 head teachers in the English county of "Preshire," who worked with…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Values, Qualitative Research, Leadership Effectiveness
Romero, Claudia; Krichesky, Gabriela – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2018
School leadership has been identified as a key function to assuring quality in education. Principals' leadership can have a direct effect on students' learning by improving teaching, or an indirect effect by creating conditions that foster learning. This exploratory study aims to understand how school principals exercise their leadership and its…
Descriptors: Discovery Learning, High Schools, Principals, Interaction
Weinstein, José; Azar, Ariel; Flessa, Joseph – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2018
Latin American educational policy has relied on the assumption that better preparation can help school leaders improve their professional performance, thus improving quality of schools. Training programs for present or future school leaders have proliferated in the region, often publicly financed, but without enough evidence of their impact. Using…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Elementary Schools, Principals, Instructional Leadership
Berkovich, Izhak – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2018
In discussions about transformational leadership theory, three conceptions frequently emerge: (a) principals' transformational leadership behaviours are more prevalent in national contexts that are restructuring-oriented; (b) principals' transformational behaviours are more effective than transactional behaviours; and (c) principals are either…
Descriptors: Principals, Transformational Leadership, Leadership Styles, Educational Administration
Decman, John M.; Badgett, Kevin; Shaughnessy, Bianca; Randall, Angela; Nixon, Lisa; Lemley, Brett – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2018
To understand how superintendent behavior meets students' instructional needs in classrooms in the districts they lead, the Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium (ISLLC) crafted six standards that are used in higher education for the preparation of effective educational leaders. This research extends on the work of Decman et al. (2010)…
Descriptors: Organizational Culture, Administration, Superintendents, Administrator Attitudes
Smylie, Mark A.; Eckert, Jonathan – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2018
This article introduces new perspectives, principles and recommendations for the successful development of teacher leadership. It draws from literature on teacher leadership, work redesign, and on-the-job leadership development to explore key insights and questions for teacher leadership development, and it presents a conceptual-theoretical model…
Descriptors: Teacher Leadership, Leadership Training, Models, Instructional Leadership
Noman, Mohammad; Awang Hashim, Rosna; Shaik Abdullah, Sarimah – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2018
The study of context-based leadership practices has gained currency during the last decade. This study aims to complement the recent efforts of researchers in identifying the context-based leadership practices of successful school leaders, and deliberating how these practices are enacted within their own unique contexts. An in-depth case study was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Success, Principals, Semi Structured Interviews
Hallinger, Philip – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2018
Scholars throughout the world are working to diversify the knowledge base in educational leadership and management (EDLM). In concert with this effort, this article reports the results of a systematic review of research on EDLM in Africa. The goals of the review were to describe trends with respect to the volume of journal publications, national…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Educational Administration, Journal Articles, Outcomes of Education
The Impact of Pay Satisfaction and School Achievement on High School Principals' Turnover Intentions
Tran, Henry – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2017
In recent years, a principal supply shortage crisis has emerged in the USA. This problem has been exacerbated by an increase in principal departures, which has been found to be negatively related to school outcomes. While research exists on several determinants of principal turnover, any examination of the relationship between principals'…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, Salaries, Academic Achievement, Principals
Tubin, Dorit – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2017
Principals' ability to lead their school towards its goals depends to a large extent on their leadership identity that influences the clarity of their mission, the way they see themselves as educational leaders and acceptance of their authority by their followers. Based on the concepts of leadership identity and role embeddedness, the present…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Leadership Qualities, Professional Identity
Zhang, Jia; Yuan, Rui; Yu, Shulin – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2017
Using qualitative data collected from three high schools in Shanghai, this study explored the barriers to the development of professional learning communities (PLCs) in Chinese schools from the perspectives of school leaders and teachers. Results indicate that the barriers identified by teachers in the development of PLCs include insufficient…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Communities of Practice, Faculty Development, Barriers
Msila, Vuyisile – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2016
There have been constant debates on how to improve school leadership in South Africa. This has emanated from numerous research findings locally and internationally that demonstrate that schools will be as effective as the people who are at their helm. The national Zenex/Advanced Certificate in Education research findings have also claimed that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Improvement, Mentors, Qualitative Research
Eger, Ludvík; Egerová, Dana – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2016
The past 20 years have been a period of reforms for school systems in Visegrad countries. However, the successful implementation of educational reforms requires effective leaders and managers and, to produce effective leaders, changes in the system of leadership and management programmes need to be adopted. From 2004, the Czech Republic saw a…
Descriptors: Risk Management, Educational Change, Leadership Effectiveness, Foreign Countries
Leading Highly Performing Children's Centres: Supporting the Development of the "Accidental Leaders"
Coleman, Andy; Sharp, Caroline; Handscomb, Graham – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2016
There is wide recognition that early childhood experiences are critical to a child's development and their subsequent life chances. However, little research has been undertaken into leadership in early years settings, which is so influential in this regard. This article summarizes research into the leadership of Sure Start Children's Centres,…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Early Experience, Child Development, Literature Reviews