Leading to Learn: School Leadership and Management Styles

Leading to Learn: School Leadership and Management Styles - "This report argues that to meet the educational needs of the 21st century the principals in primary and secondary schools must play a more dynamic role and become far more than an administrator of top-down rules and regulations. Schools and their governing structures must let school leaders lead in a systematic fashion and focus on the instructional and learning processes and outcomes of their schools.

"These recommendations flow from a field of education that has recently experienced a fundamental change in its philosophy of administration and even in its conception of schools as organisations. A significant research literature also indicates that what the public and other stakeholders of schools want as learning outcomes for students can only be achieved if school leadership is adapted to a new model (Pont, Nusche and Moorman, 2008). These changes are directly relevant to the working lives, professional development, instructional practices, pedagogical beliefs and attitudes and the appraisal and feedback of secondary school teachers, all of which were measured in the TALIS survey."

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