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…

The majority of studies into recruitment to the headship role have focused on supply-side dynamics and teachers' own accounts of the factors that (dis)incentivize them from aspiring or progressing to headship. Significantly less work has been done in analyzing demand-side factors. This paper addresses the gap by presenting findings from a…

Instructional leadership is an educational leadership model in which principals are directly and continually involved in curricular and instructional issues. This study aimed to identify the relationships needed for principals' instructional leadership, a topic that has not been sufficiently explored. Participants of this qualitative study were 26…

The study relies on the perspectives of principal information processing, learning and creativity, and examines an innovative model linking principals' attentional scope (PAS) to a teacher's creativity through the mediating effect of principals' ambidexterity and internal and external knowledge sharing. Data were collected from a survey of 833…

This study investigates the impact of principals' instructional leadership practices on secondary school teachers' effectiveness in the North Central Geo-Political Zone of Nigeria. To answer the research question of the study, the Principal Instructional Management Rating Scale (PIMRS) and the Virgilio Teacher Behaviour Inventory (VTBI) were…

This paper examined leadership practices which supported the diffusion of an innovation in a cluster of schools in Singapore, through the lenses of complexity leadership theory (CLT) and ecological leadership. The approach is a qualitative case study, with the unit of analysis bounded by the innovation and a cluster of schools involved in the…

This article reports the findings of a study investigating the influence of Islamic values and beliefs upon the practices of school principals in Kuwait. The findings are part of a large-scale project to develop an Islamic-Oriented Educational Leadership (IOEL) model for Muslim school leaders. This article undertakes an exploratory investigation…

This study investigates how principals position specialized teachers (i.e., teachers with expertise in a specific area who are assigned to build the capacity of teachers through professional development) and how these positions might enable and constrain the teachers' actions. Today, a general tendency to foster professionalization by establishing…

Vice-principals' (VPs) work is intensifying in its complexity and volume but the changing nature of their work is not thoroughly documented. This article focuses on the often-overlooked VP's role and records the factors that evidence the intensifying work conditions for VPs. The data for this article come from a large-scale online survey that has…

Over the past decade, there has been an increase of 1:1 laptop schools across the United States. Yet, minimal research exists which examines the experiences of school site administrators as they lead the implementation of a 1:1 laptop school initiative. This case study investigated the roles of principals and assistant principals leading 1:1…

Superintendents serve as the primary strategists and leaders for school divisions across the United States. Yet, organizational socialization to the community and to the district is one of the greatest challenges superintendents new to a district face as they transition into their roles. This case study examined how the work of the transition team…

A university president occupies an increasingly symbolic position in today's higher education landscape, yet this aspect of the presidency is not well understood. Expectations for engagement, partnership building, fundraising, and cultivation of a public image continue to increase, while tenure lengths of presidents have fallen. Utilizing data…

Teacher leaders, despite their significant contributions to schools, are often undervalued and underutilized. Even with increased interest in the literature over the past few decades, there remains a lack of empirical studies, especially on informal teacher leaders who remain full-time classroom teachers while taking on extra duties. In light of…

Temporality and in particular principals' time use is attracting increasing scholarly attention in educational administration and leadership research. There is a long history of studies looking at how principals spend or allocate their time. This paper draws on initial data from the Principals' Experiencing Time (PET) project which focuses on how…

There is a rich international history in social justice scholarship focusing on the practices of educational leadership and leaders in areas of disadvantage. Research suggests that principals who have a clear focus on social justice will tend to exhibit a range of normative practices. This paper examines the social justice understandings and…