With and for All: Middle School Principal Instructional Leadership

• In Event: Instructional Leadership and Its Impact on Students, Teachers, and Schools

Abstract

This study sought to provide voice to middle school principals to share how they conceptualize and describe their role as instructional leaders and how they utilize formal and informal leaders to provide instructional leadership to teachers in various content areas. Three key findings emerged from data analysis: (1) principals utilize strategic processes as instructional leaders to construct the vision for their school; (2) principals view themselves as instructional experts who organize formal and informal leaders to support with content expertise; and (3) principals utilize teachers to enact leadership roles across the school within established structures to advance the work of their school.

Author

• Angela Rupa Florio, Fairfax County Public Schools