What We Know about Successful School Leadership

By K. Leithwood, Carolyn J. Riehl. 2003

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“It all comes down to the leadership” (2014, background): “Our study takes place in the context of recent policy moves towards increased school autonomy within a national agenda of top-down school reform that has focused a great deal of policy and scholarly attention on school principals and the central role of effective leadership in school improvement (Cl”
How Graduate-Level Preparation Influences the Effectiveness of School Leaders: A Comparison of the Outcomes of Exemplary and Conventional Leadership Preparation Programs for Principals (2011, background): “Yet these factors are often cited as reasons why low-performing schools are difficult to lead and why leadership preparation improvements are needed (Bottoms & O’Neill, 2001; Institute for Educational Leadership, 2000; Leithwood & Riehl, 2005; Shen, RodriguezCampo, & Rincones-Gomez, 2000).”
Leadership Style and Organizational Learning: The Mediate Effect of School Vision. (2010, background): “…transformation processes (e.g. Collins and Porras, 1994; Hunt, 1991; Kotter, 1990; Strange and Mumford, 2002, 2005; Dinham, JEA 48,1 12 2005), and a crucial basis for action for leaders of learning organizations (e.g. Johnson, 2002; Senge et al., 1994; Leithwood and Riehl, 2003; Hallinger, 2003).”
A Question of Trust: Predictive Conditions for Adaptive and Technical Leadership in Educational Contexts (2008, unknown): “Given the interrelatedness of each of the leadership factors, as has been described by Waters et al. (2003) and Leithwood and Riehl (2003), positive correlations are not surprising.”
Transformational Leadership: An Evolving Concept Examined through the Works of Burns, Bass, Avolio, and Leithwood (2006, unknown): “Leithwood and Riehl (2003) stated, “Although leadership explains only about three to five percent of the variation in student learning across schools, this effect is actually nearly onequarter of the total effect of all school factors” (p. 3).”
Assessing Schoolwide Cultural Competence: Implications for School Leadership Preparation (2009, background): “…of educational leadership have emphasized that effective school leadership is contingent on a thorough understanding of school culture (Deal & Peterson, 1999; Fullan, 1991; Leithwood & Jantzi, 1990, 2000; Leithwood & Riehl, 2003; Peterson & Deal, 2002; Sashkin & Walberg, 1993; Sergiovanni, 2001).”
Lifeworld or Systemsworld: What Guides Novice Principals?. (2008, background): “Other researchers have described this essential component of effective leadership as direction setting, people development, and organization redesign (Leithwood, 2006; Leithwood and Riehl, 2005).”
Leading Change under Pressure: An Examination of Principal Leadership in Low-Performing Schools (2009, background): “Our conceptualization of transformational leadership builds off the recent work by Leithwood and colleagues (see Leithwood & Jantzi, 2005; Leithwood et al., 2004; Leithwood & Riehl, 2003), who described transformational leadership in a nuanced and complex way.”
Effective leadership in higher education: a literature review (2007, background): “On the face of it, the foregoing analysis would seem to provide the foundations of a competency-based framework for departmental leaders in universities, a goal that can often be discerned in reviews of the school effectiveness literature (e.g. Leithwood & Riehl, 2003).”
School Climate: a Review of the Construct, Measurement, and Impact on Student Outcomes (2015, background): “Structural organization refers to the skeletal or architectural framework of the institution in which people carry out their work (Leithwood and Riehl 2003).”