School leadership is commonly considered to have a significant influence on school effectiveness and improvement. Effective school leaders are expected to successfully introduce and support change and innovation at the school unit. Despite an abundance of studies on educational leadership, very few studies have provided evidence on the link between leadership models, and specific educational an...

Effective school leadership is a basic tenet for successful school since the outcome of a school depends on the quality of leadership. As a current popular form of leadership, distributed leadership focuses on the leadership of all team members in a school. Research shows that successful leadership depends on the context and time of a school. This paper tries to conceptualize distributed leader...

The effect of school leadership on educational outcomes has been widely debated in recent decades. Only a small fraction of available studies on school leadership deal with its effects on specific educational outcomes. The paper aims to provide an overview of research on the effects of two contemporary leadership theories (distributed leadership and transformational leadership) on educational o...

there is a trend in health systems around the world to place great emphasis on and faith in improving ‘leadership’. leadership has been defined in many ways and the elitist implications of traditional notions of leadership sit uncomfortably with modern healthcare organisations. the concept of distributed leadership incorporates inclusivity, collectiveness and collaboration, with the result that...