Role of the School Leader

Role of the School Leader - "Since the beginnings of the principalship in American education, educators have struggled to define a distinctive role for the position. Theoreticians and analysts have repeatedly dissected the job and its place in the larger social and educational context, urging principals in one decade to be "bureaucratic executives" followed ten years later by "humanistic facilitator" and then "instructional leader" (Lynn Beck and Joseph Murphy 1993). Principals themselves have less time for theoretical debates, but struggle with role definition on a daily basis. How should I spend my time? What do students, teachers, parents, and board members expect of me? What should be at the top of the to-do list?"