Journal of Educational Administration: Volume 53 Issue 1

The networked principal: Examining principals’ social relationships and transformational leadership in school and district networks

Nienke M. Moolenaar, Peter J. C. Sleegers

While in everyday practice, school leaders are often involved in social relationships with a variety of stakeholders both within and outside their own schools, studies on school…

Administrative context and novice teacher-mentor interactions

Ben Pogodzinski

Mentoring can improve novice teacher effectiveness and reduce teacher attrition, yet the depth and breadth of mentoring can vary greatly within and between schools. The purpose of…

Faculty trust in the principal: an essential ingredient in high-performing schools

Megan Tschannen-Moran, Christopher R. Gareis

– The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationships among faculty trust in the principal, principal leadership behaviors, school climate, and student achievement.

Trust in school: a pathway to inhibit teacher burnout?

Dimitri Van Maele, Mieke Van Houtte

The purpose of this paper is to consider trust as an important relational source in schools by exploring whether trust lowers teacher burnout. The authors examine how trust…

Principals’ social interactions with teachers: How principal-teacher social relations correlate with teachers’ perceptions of student engagement

Heather E. Price

The purpose of this paper is to link the social interactions between principals and their teachers to teachers’ perceptions of their students’ engagement with school, empirically…

Bringing people back in: implications for praxis

Karen Seashore Louis

Refocusing the lens: educational research in an era of relationships

Alan Daly

Principal-teacher relationships: foregrounding the international importance of principals’ social relationships for school learning climates

Heather E. Price, Nienke M. Moolenaar