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

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Title: 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

Item sets: OB Citations: Teacher Collaboration in School Improvement

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