Chapter 5: Collective Efficacy, Collegial Leadership, and a Culture of Trust: Predicting Academic Optimism and Overall Effectiveness

This study explores the role of trust in the principal, trust in colleagues, collegial leadership, and collective efficacy in the prediction of effectiveness. Trust, efficacy and leadership have a connection to academic optimism and overall effectiveness; however this configuration of independent variables elaborates the interrelations among these variables, and offers empirical support for a theoretical framework with multiple measures of effectiveness.