Principals Leveraging Instructional Leadership Teams to Promote Ambitious Instruction

• In Event: Park Central Roundtable Session 7
  In Roundtable Session: Principals' Problem-Solving and Decision-Making in Teams and Organizations

Abstract

Scholars and practitioners in educational leadership are increasingly understanding how successful principals are achieving and sustaining improvements within schools. Principals who are making demonstrable changes in their schools, and sustaining them over time, are combining elements of transformational and instructional leadership to gain deeper understandings of systemic problems affecting their schools (Marks & Printy, 2003; Leithwood & Sun, 2012). However, principals cannot do this work alone; must draw from the talent of teacher leaders. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the successes and challenges of 12 early career principals who are making progress toward deepening the leadership capacities of teacher leaders to diagnose systemic problems and implement strategies within their respective schools in a large urban school system

Authors

• Jason Swanson, University of Illinois - Chicago

• Samuel Paul Whalen, University of Illinois at Chicago