...Ronni Laursen; Nanna Limskov Stærk Christensen Purpose This article explores how school leaders in primary and lower secondary schools strategically use different types of data to navigate the dual demands of accountability and professional learning. Design/methodology/approach Based...

... Licensed re-use rights only Principals Professional learning R&D partnership Umeå School of Education FS 1.3.2-1233-23 Funding: This work was supported by Umeå School of Education (award number: FS 1.3.2-1233-23). In recent years, one of the key policy strategies...

... from 39 strategically sampled superintendent participants. Findings Participants described heavily participating in professional learning networks. Superintendents’ motivations to participate were interrelated and multifaceted, and they derived multiple benefits. Network composition varied...

...Turgut Karakose; Tijen Tulubaş; Sedat Kanadli; David Gurr Purpose This study was conducted to investigate the effect of principal leadership (PL) on teacher professional learning (TPL) with the possible mediation of teacher trust (TT) and teacher agency (TA) using a broader set of data collected...

... Principals Leadership Learning Professional learning Superintendents A principal requires continuous learning to handle external and internal changes. For instance, principals are expected to handle administrative tasks and engage in effective instructional leadership to improve student...

...Ann Leaf; George Odhiambo Purpose The purpose of this paper is to report on a study examining the perceptions of secondary principals, deputies and teachers, of deputy principal (DP) instructional leadership (IL), as well as deputies’ professional learning (PL) needs. Framed within...

...Stephen Dinham; Frank Crowther; Alma Harris Purpose The purpose of this paper is to outline how collective capacity building is supporting system‐wide reform in one country. It seeks to outline the way in which professional learning communities within, between and across schools are creating...