Turnaround Leadership for School Sustainability

Seeking Sustainability Leadership

Legitimacy, Communication, and Leadership in the Turnaround Game

We study the effectiveness of leaders for inducing coordinated organizational change to a more efficient equilibrium, i.e., a turnaround. We compare communication from leaders to incentive increases and also compare the effectiveness of randomly selected and elected leaders. While all interventions yield shifts to more efficient equilibria, communication from leaders has a greater effect than i...

Principal Leadership and School Renewal

Introduction The study upon which this paper is based solicited information on school renewal from a purposive sample of principals initially identified using quantitative profiling techniques (Silcox, Cavanagh and Dellar, 2003). Principals were presented with a series of questions that enabled an investigation of their leadership behaviours with respect to school renewal. The principals' respo...

Leadership Practices of School Counselors

Scandinavian Approaches to School Leadership

Introduction The Improving School Leadership activity underscores that improving student learning is the core task school leaders should dedicate their time to. The report highlights what we know about the significance of school leadership in improving students’ learning, and it includes many recommendations for policy-makers to consider. Sustainable change is probably depending on how well eac...