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Tian, Meng; Nutbrown, Graham – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2023
Existing distributed leadership (DL) theories tend to focus on distributing financial, material and human resources in order to enhance school performance. However, their impact appears controversial. Critical scholars assert that using DL to promote trust and democracy can be a self-fulfilling prophecy orchestrated by few formal leaders. When…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Participative Decision Making, Trust (Psychology), Social Justice
Brown, Martin; McNamara, Gerry; O'Hara, Joe; Hood, Stafford; Burns, Denise; Kurum, Gül – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2019
This paper suggests that distributed leadership is a vital first step in making schools flexible enough to respond to new pressures. However, it is then argued that distributed leadership per se does not necessarily imply a commitment to a particular stance on issues of social justice, such as equality, but rather that this can only flow from…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth
Ganon-Shilon, Sherry; Schechter, Chen – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2017
Effective education reform depends on its successful realization by the school leadership carrying out the reform. School principals and middle leaders in the 21st century re-examine their traditional role so as to understand complexities and ambiguities characterizing their various responsibilities within the context of school reform. As critical…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Instructional Leadership, Holistic Approach, Administrator Role
Huff, Jason; Preston, Courtney; Goldring, Ellen – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2013
We present a multi-phase coaching model that was implemented to help principals improve their instructional leadership practices. We then discuss a rubric based on this coaching model that we used to evaluate coaches' implementation of key model phases and to identify principals' responses to the coaching. After presenting the…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Principals, Instructional Leadership, Professional Development
Bush, Tony – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2013
The Education Reform Act 1988 increased the scope of headteachers' work and led to an emphasis on "management", often interpreted as the implementation of government policies, checked through the Ofsted inspection regime. Following the election of a Labour government in 1997, the discourse changed to "leadership". Leadership…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Administrative Change, Educational Change, Principals
Collins, Mike – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2013
The notion of localism and decentralization in national policy has come increasingly to the fore in recent years. The national succession planning strategy for headteachers in England introduced by the National College for School Leadership promoted "local solutions for a national challenge". This article deals with some aspects of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Planning, Administrative Organization, Systems Approach
Blandford, Sonia – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2013
The "Achievement for All" (AfA) pilot initiative, delivered in partnership by the Department for Education (DfE), (formerly the Department for Children, Schools and Families [DCSF]), National Strategies and the National College (NCSL), aims to increase the attainment and progress of children in schools with special educational needs and…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Special Education, Special Needs Students, Parent Participation
Angelides, Panayiotis – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2012
A primary goal of many educational systems in different countries of the world is the offering of equal opportunities in education. My engagement with the literature that relates to inclusive education as well as the literature that relates to educational leadership leads to the conclusion that if we are interested in moving towards more inclusive…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Leadership Styles, Inclusion, Educational Opportunities
Ghamrawi, Norma – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2011
Drawing upon empirical data, this article explores the concept of trust as a context for the establishment of teacher leadership. This article is part of a larger study that was carried out over a 2-year period and involved 21 teachers, 21 subject leaders and 9 principals belonging to three private K-12 schools in Beirut, Lebanon. Data was…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Elementary Secondary Education, Self Efficacy, Interviews
Wallace, Mike; Tomlinson, Michael; O'Reilly, Dermot – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2011
Among western governments large-scale leadership development initiatives represent an increasingly deployed means of promoting the acculturation of school leaders to support educational reforms and ongoing improvement. England's sophisticated initiative centres on the National College for Leadership in Schools and Children's Services, a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Leadership, Principals, Government School Relationship
Pashiardis, Petros; Savvides, Vassos; Lytra, Eleni; Angelidou, Kakia – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2011
The purpose of this article is twofold as it aims to compliment the effort of identifying the personal qualities and professional competencies generic to effective school leaders and to contribute to the comparison of effective leadership in diverse cultural contexts. Five examples of successful school principals in rural primary schools in Cyprus…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Interviews, Leadership Effectiveness, Foreign Countries
Cocklin, Barry; Wilkinson, Jane – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2011
Few studies of school leadership succession document the processes of continuity and change, especially within situations where there has been a strong tradition of tenure of principal, within a "quality" school. This article examines how a new principal with a commitment towards notions of Learning Community Schools, "quality" teaching and…
Descriptors: Tenure, Instructional Leadership, Principals, Administrative Change
Inman, Margaret – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2011
The literature on leadership in the compulsory education sector shows that there are multiple pathways through different stages and phases to becoming a headteacher. However although research exists on leadership in higher education, little has been written about those in "middle leadership" positions such as heads of faculties and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Leadership, Principals, Middle Management
Slater, Charles L. – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2011
This article reviews recent literature in educational administration that supports the argument that leadership matters. School principals exert influence on teachers, who in turn affect student achievement. There is a need for an international approach both to replicate large studies and to use a narrative approach to study leaders in their…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Instructional Leadership, Principals, Global Approach
Maxcy, Brendan D.; Sungtong, Ekkarin; Nguyen, Thu Su'o'ng Thi – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2010
This article reports on the challenges facing public school leadership in southern Thailand, a region destabilized by renewal of a longstanding insurgency. Seeking to implement national educational reforms on shifting social, political and cultural terrain, educators in this region face extraordinary challenges as they reconsider and renegotiate…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Ideology, Foreign Countries, Instructional Leadership
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