Tracing the Evolution of Role Conceptualization and Leader Identity Development Among Urban School Principals in Training: A Longitudinal Study

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Abstract

In this conference paper, we examine the evolution of role conceptualization among eight emerging school leaders in their first 18 months of a highly regarded and recognized principal preparation program. Specifically we use a longitudinal case study approach to track the trajectory of their role conception of the prinicipalship and the ways in which leader identity cultivating activities appear to be shaping that role conceptualization.

Authors

• David Mayrowetz, University of Illinois at Chicago

• Anne Hutchinson, University of Illinois at Chicago

• Michelle McKenna Shabaker, University of Illinois at Chicago

• Shelby A. Cosner, University of Illinois at Chicago

• Samuel Paul Whalen, University of Illinois at Chicago

• Lisa Walker, University of Illinois at Chicago

• Martha Hebert, University of Illinois at Chicago