Learning-Centered Leadership: An Evidence-Based Pedagogical Synergy Model for Promoting Data Use in High Schools

• In Event: Advancing the Practice of Using Assessment Data for Instructional Improvements in K–12 Settings

Abstract

This study explores how learning-centered leadership promotes effective use of data in high schools. A mixed-method methodology was employed and results highlight the complex task of assimilating effective use of data as an everyday institutional routine. The main insight of this study is the understanding that effective use of data is promoted via an evidence-based pedagogical synergy model of practice. Model components are enacted through the shared leadership of the school principal and intermediate leadership, where ideological concepts become a central engine for driving the leadership to promote this issue. Four key processes: Planning, Implementing, Supporting, and Advocating comprise the set of practices for promoting effective use of data, and are supported by cultural values and organizational mechanism.

Authors

• Sigal Reinders Kafri, University of Haifa

• Haggai Kupermintz, University of Haifa