Journal of Educational Administration: Volume 53 Issue 3

Principals’ leadership behaviour: values-based, contingent or both?

Julia Warwas

Concepts of values-based leadership posit that school principals’ professional practice must be informed by values to ensure coherently purposeful activities. Contingency models…

Staying close to home: women’s life-choices and the superintendency

Jill Sperandio, Lavanya Devdas

The purpose of this paper is to examine the importance of lifestyle factors including geographical relocation, accommodation for dual earner careers, and availability of family or…

Leading or managing? Assistant Regional Directors, School Performance, in Queensland

Ray Bloxham, Lisa C. Ehrich, Radha Iyer

Education reform aimed at achieving improved student learning is a demanding challenge for leaders and managers at all levels of education across the globe. In 2010, the position…

Principals’ sensemaking and enactment of teacher evaluation

Jessica G. Rigby

The purpose of this paper is to look across six first-year principals to investigate their engagement with and sensemaking of specific messages of instructional leadership around…

Shared sense-making: how charter school leaders ascribe meaning to accountability

Marytza A. Gawlik

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the ways in which charter school leaders influence the understanding and conception of accountability policy and how that understanding…

Reflections on the evolution of educational leadership preparation programs in the United States and challenges ahead

Martha McCarthy

The purpose of this legacy paper is to review leadership preparation over time in the United States and addresses challenges ahead. It is hoped that the US developments will be…