Journal of Educational Administration: Volume 57 Issue 5

Supervising school leaders in a rapidly changing world

Rebecca A. Thessin, Karen Seashore Louis

Supporting principal supervisors: what really matters?

Meredith I. Honig, Lydia R. Rainey

Districts across the country are calling on their principal supervisors to shift from mainly focusing on operations and compliance to dedicating their time to help principals grow…

Establishing productive principal/principal supervisor partnerships for instructional leadership

Rebecca A. Thessin

The purpose of this paper is to understand what the principal and principal supervisor each bring and contribute to their collaborative work that is consequential for the…

A view from the field: the process of improving equitable systems leadership

Jessica Rigby, Emily Donaldson Walsh, Shelley Boten, Allison Deno, M. Scott Harrison, Rodrick Merrell, Sarah Pritchett, Scott Seaman

Research on principal supervisors (PSs) is an emerging field, and principal supervision for racial equity has not yet been studied or theorized. Conducted in partnership with…

District offices fostering educational change through instructional leadership practices in Australian Catholic secondary schools

Jane Wilkinson, Christine Edwards-Groves, Peter Grootenboer, Stephen Kemmis

The purpose of this paper is to examine how Catholic district offices support school leaders’ instructional leadership practices at times of major reform.

How school districts influence student achievement

Kenneth Leithwood, Jingping Sun, Catherine McCullough

The purpose of this paper is to test the effects of nine district characteristics on student achievement, explored the conditions that mediated the effects of such characteristics…

National strategy for supporting school principal’s instructional leadership: A Scandinavian approach

Marit Aas, Jan Merok Paulsen

A number of empirical studies and evaluations in Norway and Sweden shows variabilities in the degree to which the municipalities succeed in their endeavors to support school…

From hierarchies to networks: Possibilities and pitfalls for educational reform of the middle tier

Christopher Chapman

Historically, the school effectiveness and improvement movement has focussed its attention on “within school” factors associated with effectiveness and improvement and on the…

Supporting instructional leadership and school improvement? Reflections on school supervision from a German perspective

Pierre Tulowitzki

The purpose of this contribution is to draw on several recent contributions from the Journal of Educational Administration to reflect on the relationship between school…

How Georgia may learn from changes in principal support and supervision internationally

Maya Bitsadze

The role of districts in supporting school leaders’ instructional leadership: a view and experience from a developing country

Bambang Sumintono, Hasan Hariri, Piter Joko Nugroho, Umi Anugerah Izzati, Joko Sriyanto