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Berkovich, Izhak – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2020
This study adopts a structural perspective to explore micro-politics in senior management teams and identify the principals' inner circle. Based on data from an Israeli random sample of state primary teachers, profiles of trust in principal are identified and used to break down the subgroups of teachers serving in various roles in senior…
Descriptors: Politics, Administrators, Middle Management, Principals
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Kitchen, Margaret; Gray, Susan; Jeurissen, Maree – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2016
This article draws on data from three multicultural New Zealand primary schools to reconceptualize principals' roles as leaders for learning. In doing so, the writers build on Sinnema and Robinson's (2012) article on goal setting in principal evaluation. Sinnema and Robinson found that even principals hand-picked for their experience fell short on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Elementary Schools, Administrator Role
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Leithwood, Kenneth; Mascall, Blair; Strauss, Tiiu; Sacks, Robin; Memon, Nadeem; Yashkina, Anna – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2007
In this study, we inquired about patterns of leadership distribution, as well as which leadership functions were performed by whom, the characteristics of nonadministrative leaders, and the factors promoting and inhibiting the distribution of leadership functions. We consider our account of distributed leadership in this district to be a probable…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Role, Best Practices, Administrator Role