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Direct linkDay, Christopher – Journal of Educational Administration, 2009
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to give an account of the ways in which one experienced secondary principal of an English secondary school developed and sustained a successful school over a 13-year period in changing policy contexts. Design/methodology/approach: The paper draws from data collected during two three-day-visits separated by a…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Foreign Countries, Principals, Secondary Schools
Peer reviewedDay, Christopher; Harris, Alma; Hadfield, Mark – School Leadership & Management, 2001
Presents a new model of effective school leadership based on recent empirical research (nonautobiographical case studies) on 12 British headteachers. Demonstrates how the multiperspective methodology contributed to a critique of existing leadership models and development of a grounded and value-led contingency model. (Contains 65 references.) (MLH)
Descriptors: Administrator Effectiveness, Case Studies, Elementary Secondary Education, Leadership Qualities
Day, Christopher – School Leadership and Management, 2004
This paper reports multiperspective research on 10 successful, experienced headteachers working in a range of urban and suburban schools of different sizes (with different school populations and free school meals indices of between 20% and 62%). All had raised the levels of measurable pupil attainments in their schools and all were highly regarded…
Descriptors: Principals, Foreign Countries, Instructional Leadership, Academic Achievement
Download full textDay, Christopher; Harris, Alma; Hadfield, Mark – 1999
This report examines the nature and practice of effective leadership in schools in England and Wales in the 1990s. It is based on a study that explored how existing theories of effective leadership--purposeful leadership, transformational leadership, or moral leadership--compared to the practices of successful head teachers in times of change. The…
Descriptors: Administrator Behavior, Administrator Effectiveness, Administrator Role, Case Studies
Peer reviewedDay, Christopher – Educational Leadership, 2000
In a 1998 study of effective British principals, school staffs agreed that successful heads were values-led, people- centered, achievement-oriented, inward/outward facing, and able to manage ongoing tensions and dilemmas: leadership/management, development/maintenance, autocracy/autonomy, personal time/professional tasks, personal…
Descriptors: Achievement, Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Effectiveness, Coping
Day, Christopher – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2005
For the last 15 years, schools in the UK have been experiencing an unprecedented number of government imposed reforms in the quest to raise standards and increase accountability. Such reforms have relied for their implementation on the compliance and co-operation of principals and have generated a number of tensions and dilemmas Multiperspective…
Descriptors: Leadership Qualities, Principals, Educational Change, Educational Policy
