Models of successful principal leadership

By David Mark Gurr, Lawrie Drysdale, B. Mulford. 2006

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This article provides an Australian perspective on successful school leadership that focuses on case studies in two states (Tasmania and Victoria). Case studies for each state were developed independently and are reported separately. Two models of successful school leadership are outlined and compared, with the models, showing a remarkable degree of commonality demonstrating that the core aspects of successful school leadership can be identified in ways that can help explain the complexity of principal leadership that leads to improved student outcomes. Both studies showed the significant contributions principals made to schools, particularly in the areas of capacity building and teaching and learning. Characteristics and qualities of the principals identified showed a common and consistent set of personal traits, behaviours, values and beliefs, such as honesty and openness, highly developed communication skills, flexibility, commitment, passion, empathy with others, a sense of ‘innate goodness’, support of equity and social justice, a belief that all children are important and can succeed, being other-centred, high expectations and a belief that schools can make a difference.

Subfields: Education

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1. H. Goode
2. Jennifer Clayton
3. Karen L. Sanzo
4. David Mark Gurr
5. Lawrie Drysdale
6. W. Sherman

Citations in the corpus

• Leadership Practices of Successful Middle School Principals. (2011, background): “Gurr et al. (2005, p. 548) found that “the principal remains an important and significant figure in determining the success of a school” in their case study research on Australian principals. Likewise, Marzano et al. (2005), found that leaders who improve upon their leadership skills and responsibil”
• An Australian model of successful school leadership (2009, methodology): “Australian model of successful principal leadership JEA 47,6 698 Gurr et al. (2006) constructed a model derived from the 14 Australian case studies (nine Victorian and five Tasmanian), which is presented in Figure 1.”