Principal Leadership and School Performance

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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