The Principal’s Effective Leadership

The Empowering Principal: Leadership Behaviors Needed by Effective Principals as Identified by Emerging Leaders and Principals

This qualitative study was designed to provide insight into effective behaviors and competencies of building principals in which leadership is broadly shared under the concept of empowerment. Principals and teacher leaders responded to five essential questions regarding what works, what does not work, the incentives, and the costs of principal leadership behaviors under empowerment paradigms. E...

Attributes of School Principals - Leadership Qualities & Capacities

Successful leadership is not the result of simply obtaining a position, but rather possessing the knowledge and understanding of successful leadership skills along with the personal ability to effectively implement those skills. Hence, "School leaders need impressive skills to provide effective leadership in our diverse school environments”. However Leadership is not a concept for self but it s...

The Leadership Challenge: Preparing and Developing Catholic School Principals

Challenges School Principals Facing in the Context of Technology Leadership*

Technology leadership, an indication of managing all technology usage in schools, is an essential component of effective educational administration (Anderson & Dexter, 2005; Dawson & Rakes, 2003; Flanagan & Jacobsen, 2003; Geer, 2002; Hughes & Zachariah, 2001; Woelfel, Murray, & Hambright, 2004). School administrators with necessary skills of technology leadership are more likely to facilitate ...

Leadership for Technology Integration: The Role of Principals and Mentors

This article reviews the preliminary results of a five-year Technology Innovation Challenge Grant initiative in North Dakota. A stratified sample of 72 schools was selected from the 423 schools participating. Data on the competencies of the leadership within each school (both administrators and mentors) was compared to technology integration success factors of the teachers associated with the l...