Journal of Educational Administration: Volume 59 Issue 6

Is it your personality, your boundary leadership or both? An integrative approach for the improvement of school management team effectiveness

Pascale Benoliel

Reorganizing schools and managing through teams is seen as a way to achieve school goals, especially in educational contexts that are highly focused on measurable student…

Understanding the complexity of system-level leadership in the English schooling landscape

Michalis Constantinides

The purpose of this paper is to explore the role and leadership practices of executive leaders in English multi-academy trusts (MATs) considering the meaning of system-level…

Instructional leadership in a centralized and competitive educational system: a qualitative meta-synthesis of research from Turkey

Sedat Gümüş, Philip Hallinger, Ramazan Cansoy, Mehmet Şükrü Bellibaş

This study sought to provide an understanding of what a culturally contextualized model of instructional leadership looks like in Turkey, and how this differs from models…

Professional identity and career aspirations as mediators between principals’ authentic leadership and teachers’ intentions and behaviors

Sigalit Tsemach, Orly Shapira-Lishchinsky

The purpose of this study is to explore the mediating role of workplace attitudes: professional identity and career aspirations between perceptions of principals’ authentic…

Examining the demands of teacher evaluation: time use, strain and turnover among Tennessee school administrators

Seth B. Hunter, Luis A. Rodriguez

Recent teacher evaluation reforms around the globe substantially increased the number of teacher observations, consequently raising observers' (typically school administrators'…

Relinquishing power: creating space for youth of color leaders

Jason Salisbury

The purpose of this manuscript is to demonstrate how school and district leaders supported the youth of color leadership initiatives at the district and school levels in ways to…

The effect of rural superintendent credibility on principal and district outcomes mediated by motivating language

William T. Holmes, Michele Parker, Jentre J. Olsen, Jam Khojasteh

The purpose of this study was to determine the influence of rural superintendent’s talk on the perceived outcomes of principal communication competence and organizational…

Approved to fail: a case study of leadership at three new high schools

Sarah Melvoin Bridich

This paper explores how leaders of new public high schools – one charter and two innovation schools – navigated the journey from school-in-theory to school-in-practice during the…