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Twila M. Guajardo – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Principal turnover remains a significant challenge in U.S. public schools, particularly in high-poverty contexts, where leadership instability negatively impacts student achievement, teacher retention, and overall school performance. This study investigated the relationship between distributed leadership practices and burnout among secondary…
Descriptors: Principals, Leadership Styles, Secondary Schools, Participative Decision Making
Greg Sharland; Kate Thornton – New Zealand Journal of Teachers' Work, 2024
School leaders have a significant impact on student outcomes; however, there has been a shift from viewing school leadership as the actions of an individual, to seeing leadership as a collaborative endeavour, including in Aotearoa New Zealand. The traditional heroic model of leadership is making way for a new leadership paradigm which considers…
Descriptors: Secondary Schools, Leadership Responsibility, Participative Decision Making, Cooperation
Berkovich, Izhak; Hassan, Tahani – International Journal of Educational Management, 2023
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the mediating role of teachers' intrinsic and extrinsic motivation in the relationship between principals' perceived distributed leadership and organizational learning capability in schools. Design/methodology/approach: The study employs a quantitative research design and a survey methodology.…
Descriptors: Teacher Motivation, Principals, Participative Decision Making, Organizational Learning
Xi Zhan; Roger Goddard; Anika Anthony – International Journal of Educational Management, 2024
Purpose: Existing research suggests that organizational learning, jointly implemented by principals and teachers may reduce agency risks and improve school management effectiveness. However, research investigating how this process occurs is lacking. The relationship between school leaders promoting the involvement of teachers in school-wide…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Participative Decision Making, High Schools, Organizational Learning
DeMatthews, David E.; Wang, YinYing – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2023
School improvement plans are strategic documents most schools complete on an annual basis. Research on school improvement planning highlights that high-quality plans contribute to student achievement gains, but many plans are of poor quality. Principals serve in a critical role within the school improvement process. In this article, we review…
Descriptors: Principals, Leadership, Educational Improvement, Educational Planning
Sunday Vetrovec Dominguez – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Principal self-efficacy is crucial to educational leadership, especially in instructional and operational areas, as found in this study. The study examines how principals maintain self-efficacy despite their many responsibilities, drawing on Bandura and Schunk's (1981) research on human behavior and belief and perception. Bandura and Adams (1977)…
Descriptors: Principals, Self Efficacy, Instructional Leadership, Operations Research
Kenji Tsuyuguchi; Fumio Fujiwara; Yuka Uzuki – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2024
The purpose of this study is to verify whether students' academic achievement is enhanced not only by the leadership of school organization members represented by a principal but also by the comprehensive power of community-wide distributed leadership. A questionnaire survey was conducted from July to September 2018. The participants were 1,157…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Participative Decision Making, Power Structure, Academic Achievement
Peter D. Wiens; Jori S. Beck; KaaVonia Hinton; Abigail Moyal – Educational Forum, 2024
The complexity of contemporary schools necessitates principals supporting teachers to become teacher leaders while also supporting their instructional practices. Drawing on data from the 2018 Teaching and Learning International Survey, principal and teacher surveys examined how principal instructional support and a climate of shared leadership are…
Descriptors: Teacher Leadership, Teacher Attitudes, Job Satisfaction, Administrator Surveys
Renee Bonita Johnson – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The aim of this qualitative case study was to explore K-12 school leadership through the perceptions of teachers. This study sought to better understand the effects of administrative leadership style on teacher retention from the perspective of teachers. Additionally, the study further sought to understand teachers' perspectives of the influence…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, School Administration, Teacher Attitudes, Leadership Styles
Joonkil Ahn; Alex J. Bowers; Anjalé D. Welton – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2024
Leadership for learning has emerged as a framework that subsumes the core characteristics of instructional leadership, transformational leadership, and distributed leadership. It acknowledges that leadership responsibilities are shared across stakeholders, inviting wider sources of leadership. If leadership for learning conceptualizes leadership…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Leadership Responsibility, Principals, Teacher Leadership
Hui-Ling Wendy Pan; Wen-Yan Chen – Journal of Educational Administration, 2024
Purpose: The importance of teacher leadership in enhancing school outcomes is recognized, but there remains a scarcity of research addressing the conditions for principals to nurture such leadership. This study examined how school contextual factors, i.e. faculty trust and academic emphasis, moderate the impact of principals' distributed…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Trust (Psychology), Principals, Power Structure
Lilli Melamed – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The role of a school principal is both multifaceted and demanding, often leading to significant emotional exhaustion and burnout. This study explored the challenges faced by veteran principals in balancing their professional and personal lives through a qualitative methodology. It aimed to understand how these principals navigated the complexities…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Responsibility, Burnout, Barriers
Hangartner, Judith; Svaton, Carla Jana – Research in Educational Administration & Leadership, 2022
Distributed leadership is propagated internationally as an effective means to improve teaching and learning in schools. Increasingly it is acknowledged that practices of distributed leadership depend on their context and governing conditions. Based on ethnographic research, this article discusses how distributed leadership is put into practice…
Descriptors: Participative Decision Making, Professional Autonomy, Power Structure, Principals
Ali Çagatay Kilinç; Mahmut Polatcan; Selçuk Turan; Nedim Özdemir – Irish Educational Studies, 2024
This study investigated the relationship between principal job satisfaction, distributed leadership, teacher-student relationships, and student reading achievement in Turkey. Using school- and teacher-level data from the PISA 2018 and TALIS 2018, we conducted a mediated-effect with antecedent effect model, in which the construct of teacher-student…
Descriptors: Principals, Job Satisfaction, Reading Achievement, Teacher Student Relationship
Canute S. Thompson – Power and Education, 2024
This study examines perspectives of seven Jamaican primary school teachers on the degree to which their principals' leadership behaviours include emphasizes recognition, promotes participation in decision-making, takes account of their diverse skills, and demonstrates openness to criticism. The study further explores whether teachers consider the…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Elementary School Teachers, Principals, Leadership Styles