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Principal Leadership and School Performance

Explore the concepts of transformational and instructional leadership and their impact on school performance. Learn how principals can inspire commitment, foster innovation, and shape organizational culture to elevate student achievement and pedagogical quality through a shared instructional approach that empowers teachers to lead collaboratively.

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Principal Leadership and School Performance

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  1. Principal Leadership and School Performance Susan Printy, PhD Michigan State University Coaches Institute

  2. Two conceptions of leadership: --Transformational --Instructional Transformational leaders • Renew organization and people • Raise level of commitment • Encourage to reach full potential • Transcend self-interest • Introduce innovation • Develop organizational capacity • Shape organizational culture • Affirms centrality of principal

  3. Instructional Leadership (conventionally understood)Principals: • Develop school mission and goals • Coordinate, monitor, and evaluate curriculum, instruction, and assessment • Promote climate for learning • Create supportive work environment • Infuse educational meaning into routine school work • Often paternalistic, resulting in dependent teachers

  4. Shared Instructional Leadership • Inclusive concept, compatible with empowered teachers • Principal maintains congruence and consistency of educational program • Principal invests teachers with resources and instructional support • Teachers have requisite expertise and information • Teachers assume leadership and work collaboratively with principal

  5. Figure 2Transformational Leadership and Shared Instructional Leadership Low High Transformational Leadership Elementary SchoolsMiddle SchoolsHigh Schools B Sumpter I Morris Q Fremont C Ashley J Selway R Wallingford D Eldorado L Red Lake S Flinders E Winema M Shining Rock T Huron F Careen N Copan U South Glen G Falls River O Okanagan V Cibola H Lamar P Ottawa W Island X Marble Canyon

  6. Study Results Integrated leadership (high transformational and high shared instructional) resulted in: • .6 SD increase in student achievement • .6 SD increase in pedagogical quality

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