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The Burden of Leadership: Exploring the Principal’s Role in Teacher Collaboration

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The Burden of Leadership: Exploring the Principal’s Role in Teacher Collaboration
Abstract/Description
Based on qualitative data collected over a 6-month period, this article examines how teachers’ experiences of principal leadership practice influence their capacity to engage in meaningful collegial interactions during structured collaboration. Similar to previous studies, our findings confirm the limitations of leadership that relies primarily on structural changes to foster collaboration. Our findings contribute further to leadership research by presenting teachers’ perspectives on why particular principal leadership practices matter to teacher collaboration and by illustrating how the principal’s enactment of leadership practices influences teachers’ sense of efficacy and motivation, both of which are critical to professional learning during collaboration.
Author/creator
Szczesiul, Stacy
Huizenga, Jessica
Date
2014
In publication
Improving Schools
Volume
17
Issue
2
Pages
176-191
Resource type
en Research/Scholarly Media
Resource status/form
en Published Text
Scholarship genre
en Empirical
Language
en
Open access/full-text available
en No
Peer reviewed
en Yes
ISSN
1365-4802
DOI
10.1177/1365480214534545
URL
Official Publisher's Webpage (SAGE Journals)
Citation
Szczesiul, S., & Huizenga, J. (2014). The Burden of Leadership: Exploring the Principal’s Role in Teacher Collaboration. Improving Schools, 17(2), 176–191. https://doi.org/10.1177/1365480214534545
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OB Citations: Teacher Collaboration in School Improvement

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