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Leadership and Policy in Schools

Volume 6, Issue 1, 2007

Special Issue: The Leading Edge of Distributed Leadership Research

Taking a Distributed Perspective to the School Principal's Workday

Taking a Distributed Perspective to the School Principal's Workday

DOI:
10.1080/15700760601091200
James P. Spillanea*, Eric M. Camburnb & Amber Stitziel Parejaa

pages 103-125

Available online: 16 Feb 2007

Abstract

Focusing on the school principal's day-to-day work, we examine who leads curriculum and instruction- and administration-related activities when the school principal is not leading but participating in the activity. We also explore the prevalence of coperformance of management and leadership activities in the school principal's workday. Looking across a range of administration-related and curriculum and instruction-related activities school principals participate in, we show that who takes responsibility for leading and managing the schoolhouse varies considerably from activity to activity and from one school to the next.

 

Details

  • Available online: 16 Feb 2007

Author affiliations

  • a Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA
  • b University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

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Taylor & Francis Group