Leading staff
Effective principals actively lead staff by challenging and supporting staff.
Breaking the Leadership Rules: The Five New Rules of Leadership
by Pamela Macklin
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This article summarises what makes an effective school leader, and includes leadership examples from political and business sectors. The author emphasises the need for school leaders to be skilled as managers, particularly in knowing how to manage complex school environments and how to get the most value out of the system.
Breaking the Leadership Rules: What is the Educational ‘Bottom Line’?
by Paul Power
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This paper from the Australian Curriculum Corporation Conference, Breaking the Leadership Rules, held in Hobart in 2004, is a quick read. The writer, Paul Power, pulls together the features of leadership that are successful both in education and in the business world.
Building Trusting Relationships for School Improvement: Implications for Principals and Teachers
by Cori Brewster and Jennifer Railsback
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This article provides a review of the key research on the importance of building trusting relationships. Building trust between educators within a school has been identified as an important factor in developing effective schools and improving outcomes for students.
Effective School Leadership
by Christopher Day and Alma Harris
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This paper looks at successful principals' ability to be simultaneously people-centred whilst managing a number of tensions and dilemmas.
Leading Learning and Teaching Primary Schools
by Geoff Southworth
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In this article, Geoff Southworth draws on research findings, inspection evidence, and first-hand experience to describe four strands that, woven together, seem to form the thread of leadership and leading "learning and teaching" schools.
Leading Learning: Creating High-Achieving Learning Environments
by Robyn Collins
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This article identifies factors that lead to greater success in terms of students' learning in all schools, which includes the development of school-wide learning communities.
What Do Teachers Bring to Leadership?
by Gordon A. Donaldson Jr.
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This article looks at relationships and the development of teacher leaders. It moves away from the concentration on ‘official leadership’ structures within a school, to look at the ways in which effective teachers contribute to the development of a professional culture that influences the practice of others who work with them.
