What We Know about Successful School Leadership

What We Know about Successful School Leadership - "Scratch the surface of an excellent school and you are likely to find an excellent principal. Peer into a failing school and you will find weak leadership. That, at least, is the conventional wisdom. Leaders are thought to be essential for high-quality education. But is this indeed true-and, if so, exactly how does leadership work? Amidst the seeming certainty that leadership matters, there is much that we do not yet understand about effective educational leadership. However, the knowledge base about leadership is constantly growing, and there are key, well-documented understandings about leadership at the school level. Major findings from research on school leadership can be summarized in the following five claims: ..."