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Direct linkDarren A. Bryant; Allan Walker – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2024
Middle leaders in schools are increasingly recognised as playing pivotal roles in school improvement. Although some school systems provide formal professional development for middle leaders, many middle leaders express a preference for job-embedded learning. Yet, international research has documented difficulties in providing intensive support…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Principals, Foreign Countries, Middle Management
Gavin Murphy; Thomas Brennan – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2024
In the Republic of Ireland, school leadership policy adopts a distributed leadership model nationally. Given that this is a relatively recent policy development, research conducted on distributed leadership to date has highlighted that there are particular challenges for school leaders in enacting this model in practice and, more significantly,…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Principals, Foreign Countries, School Administration
Hernández-Amorós, María J.; Martínez Ruiz, María A. – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2018
A prolific number of researchers have chosen to study metaphorical narratives, confirming their usefulness in educational research. The aim of this paper is to analyse the metaphorical expressions used by 68 principals from infant, primary and secondary schools in Alicante (Spain), concerning the way they see the figure of the principal and how it…
Descriptors: Principals, Leadership Training, Professional Development, Foreign Countries
Stosich, Elizabeth Leisy; Bocala, Candice; Forman, Michelle – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2018
This study explores how six school leadership teams in a rural district in California responded to professional development (PD) designed to strengthen leadership practices and organizational conditions in schools for improving teaching and learning. Specifically, the PD was intended to address the problem of practice identified by the schools:…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, School Districts, Leadership Training, Professional Development
Evans, Linda – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2012
Research leadership, a much neglected area of educational leadership and management, is disadvantaged by having an underdeveloped and inadequate knowledge base. This article represents a contribution to this knowledge base through a conceptual analysis. It presents as propositional knowledge an original theoretical model of the componential…
Descriptors: Researchers, Qualitative Research, Professional Development, Writing for Publication
Webb, Rosemary – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2005
Case study data from six primary schools are drawn upon to examine the reality of primary headteacher leadership. Three alternative theoretical models of leadership are used to analyse the ways in which it has changed since the Education Reform Act (1988) and the implications of these changes for leading teaching and learning. Prior to 1988…
Descriptors: Models, Educational Change, Instructional Leadership, Principals
