...Huang Wu; Eric M. Camburn Purpose This study investigates how teachers perceive their principals' communication of expectations, and how these perceptions differ based on teacher, principal and school characteristics, and the extent to which principals' communication of expectations is associated...

... to the principals and teachers is to sustain this development and at the same time take care of the comprehensive vision of “Democratic Bildung”. And the challenge to principals is to find ways of communicating with teachers and influencing teachers that are legitimate and effective. Originality/value The paper...

... to the value of strong, cohesive teacher teams. Jonas Höög can be contacted at: jonas.hoog@soc.umu.se © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Education Leadership Communication Trust Teachers Sweden The school is beautifully located between the coast and the mountains beneath...

... of site‐based management (SBM) teams are essential in promoting research within a distributed leadership framework. Design/methodology/approach A path model is computed to test the relationships between factors relating to the support received by site‐based teams; site team communication and decision...

... on pedagogical school leadership and school improvement. The aim of the present programme introduced in 2002 is that head teachers should develop and use a democratic, learning and communicative form of leadership that has its starting‐point in the national curriculum. After having completed the training...

..., is not the type of medium required to do justice to education, generally recognized as a social practice enterprise. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Schools Education Teachers Language Communication Trinidad and Tobago School inspection is today an item of intense professional...