We investigated the professional competencies, encompassing both knowledge and management practices, employed by secondary school leaders in Cameroon. A total of 73 principals from both public and private francophone-sector establishments participated in this study, providing responses to a comprehensive 38-item questionnaire. Employing…

The purpose of this study included systematically identifying commonalities in the leadership qualities of successful principals, analyzing the relationships among these qualities, and studying how the qualities vary and interact across school contexts. This study explored how successful principals acquire and apply these qualities to achieve…

Leading a school during the uncertainties of challenges, changes, and crises requires school principals to respond and react effectively, cohesively and proactively using resilience. Rather than using discrete contracts or dimensions to measure principal resilience, this paper tended to develop and validate a multidimensional instrument of…

After widespread concern following the tragic death of a headteacher, the appointment of a new chief inspector for Ofsted and the prospect of a Labour government offer an opportunity for a radical appraisal of the current inspection regime. This article discusses some basic concepts and principles which might contribute to a system that is…

Purpose: This study examines how women principals authored reforms in their schools and the resources and multifaceted identities they drew upon to navigate change. Design/methodology/approach: Using life history methods, this paper examines data from 20 semi-structured interviews conducted during 2022-2023 with 10 women public school principals…

Despite the extensive research that has been done on the courage of managers in for-profit organisations, the courage of educational leaders has not been systematically studied. Educational leaders' courage is unique since it requires them to act under conditions of ambiguity with only limited ability to justify their actions. The current study…

School leaders have an important role in supporting implementation of inclusive education practices in schools. Therefore, it is necessary to understand how school leaders' attitudes towards inclusive education are formed. We used the Attitudes Toward Inclusive Education Scale that was developed to measure different facets of attitudes towards…

Supporting the integration of technology into schools can be one of the daunting tasks and challenging role for school principals. It requires them to have basic technology skills, standards, and competencies from which to work, lead and finally integrate technology appropriately in school. To investigate this new role and daunting tasks, the…

Leaders with ever-evolving learning agility demonstrate high performance by making quick and better decisions in the face of uncertain situations. This study aimed to determine the relationship between school principals' learning agility and decision-making styles and the moderating role of gender in this relationship. The research is carried out…

The purpose of this non-experimental quantitative study is to obtain middle school teachers' perceptions of their principals' leadership attributes and analyze how their perceptions of those leadership attributes relate to their sense of self-efficacy. Teacher participants from five middle schools in a lower Rio Grande Valley (RGV) school district…

This qualitative narrative inquiry aimed to explore current classroom teachers' preferred leadership characteristics of school leadership; specifically, the complex relationship between teacher perception of principal leadership characteristics and their influence on teacher retention on Title I campuses. This was a 2-part narrative inquiry…

Principals face unexpected crises, big and small, regularly. Yet, as the COVID-19 pandemic illustrated, they aren't always prepared for them when they come. Mario Jackson describes some of the challenges principals faced during the pandemic and the specific attributes that helped them manage. Specifically, equity-oriented leadership, crisis…

Ethical leadership has proven to be pivotal in fostering efficiency and effectiveness across various organizations. It cultivates employees' confidence, commitment, job satisfaction and enhances their performance, thereby contributing to organizational stability and competitiveness. Given its significance, ethical leadership has become a global…

For nearly 30 years charter schools in California have been designed to be flexible and innovative educational laboratories. Just like traditional district schools, public-school charter schools offer tuition-free learning options for families in California. The flexibility in curriculum, school calendars, and learning themes are some of the ways…

This study aims to examine the relationships between school principals' entrepreneurial competencies, sustainable management behaviours and generative leadership according to the perceptions of teachers working in state-owned schools. The causal screening model was used in the study, the data of the relevant variables were obtained by the scales…