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Direct linkLeithwood, Kenneth; Harris, Alma; Hopkins, David – School Leadership & Management, 2020
In 2008, the authors published an article in this journal entitled "Seven Strong Claims about Successful School Leadership" (Leithwood, Harris, and Hopkins 2008). The article was based on a major literature review that was summarised in a paper published by the National College for School Leadership in England. Both the National College…
Descriptors: Leadership Responsibility, Learning, Teacher Behavior, Teacher Leadership
Download full textLeithwood, Kenneth – Education Sciences, 2021
This paper reviews the results of 63 empirical studies and reviews of research in order to identify those school leadership practices and dispositions likely to help improve equitable school conditions and outcomes for diverse and traditionally underserved students. Guided by a well-developed framework of successful school leadership, results…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Instructional Leadership, Research Reports, Educational Practices
Handford, Victoria; Leithwood, Kenneth – Journal of Educational Administration, 2013
Purpose: Trust among teachers in schools is significantly related to student achievement and trust in school leaders is an important influence on such trust. The purpose of this study is to identify leadership practices which teachers interpret as signs of trustworthiness on the part of their principals. Design/methodology/approach: Evidence for…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Instructional Leadership, Principals, Trust (Psychology)
Wahlstrom, Kyla L.; Louis, Karen Seashore; Leithwood, Kenneth; Anderson, Stephen E. – Educational Research Service, 2010
In a recent 334-page report, "Investigating the Links to Improved Student Learning," authors Kyla Walstrom, Karen Seashore Louis, Kenneth Leithwood, and Stephen Anderson discuss findings from the Learning from Leadership study. This study was designed to identify and describe successful educational leadership and to explain how such leadership at…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Educational Change, Instructional Leadership, Student Improvement
Leithwood, Kenneth; Steinbach, Rosanne – 1993
Findings of a study that examined the relationship between variations in patterns of school leadership and group problem-solving process are presented in this paper. Interviews were conducted at the beginning and end of the school year with 12 principals in British Columbia who had implemented the Primary Program. The initiative was designed to…
Descriptors: Administrator Effectiveness, Elementary Secondary Education, Group Dynamics, Instructional Leadership
Leithwood, Kenneth; Jantzi, Doris – 1998
Leadership may come from many different sources in a school. This paper examines the relative effects of leadership provided by principals, teachers, and those in other roles. A study based on surveys of 2,727 teachers and 9,025 students in 110 elementary and secondary schools (Ontario, Canada) analyzed the effects of "total leadership," including…
Descriptors: Administrator Effectiveness, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
