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An evolution in distributed educational leadership: From sole leader to co-principalship

Published in Journal of Educational Leadership, Policy and Practice

This paper traverses changes in perceptions of the school principal’s role, from sole to distributed leadership practices. A brief commentary on selected New Zealand literature is followed by a case study of a secondary co-principalship that identifies adaptive strategies and success factors in this joint role. The potentiality of the national Lead...

Leadership in our secondary schools: good people, inadequate systems

Published in Journal of Educational Leadership, Policy and Practice

The contexts in which Aotearoa New Zealand leaders learn and work have improved in some respects from 30 years ago and deteriorated in others. The improvements include a significant shift away from heroic, often dictatorial, models of leadership towards a greater focus on the many layers and types of leadership required for secondary schools to be ...

What does it mean to be a principal? A policy researcher’s perspective on the last 30 years in Aotearoa New Zealand

Published in Journal of Educational Leadership, Policy and Practice

In this article I reflect on research relating to school leadership and the use of research to support school leadership over the last 30 years in Aotearoa New Zealand. The Tomorrow’s Schools reforms in 1989 wth its shift to school self-management saw more interest in understanding the size and nature of the principal role. More recently there has ...

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Published in Journal of Educational Leadership, Policy and Practice

Thirty years of leadership in New Zealand education: From the shadows of management to sine qua non

Published in Journal of Educational Leadership, Policy and Practice

Leadership is now promoted as the sine qua non (essential ingredient) for maintaining and developing effective education in New Zealand. It was not this way in the latter years of the 1980s and through the 1990s, when educational management was the preferred nomenclature. Since the turn of the millennium, management has subsided into the shadows of...

Ko tēnei te wā…. Te Tiriti o Waitangi education, teacher education, and early childhood care and education

Published in Journal of Educational Leadership, Policy and Practice

This paper offers a brief personal reflection on some leadership related observations from work as an early childhood teacher educator over the past thirty years. Te Tiriti o Waitangi education is a specific area that has previously not been sufficiently prioritised and has only comparatively recently been affirmed in government policy as a key foc...

“Lazarus” school rising: Finding renewed hope with a “little help from our friends”

Published in Journal of Educational Leadership, Policy and Practice

This article examines the nature of sudden and sweeping organisational change when a public secondary school facing closure reframed the ideological components of schooling, finding renewed hope and direction for the future. It also attempts to explain how organisational change can take place through university-led action research, activating schoo...

Contemporary pressures on school-based research: A cautionary tale for school leaders

Published in Journal of Educational Leadership, Policy and Practice

School-based research has historically played an important role within the education system contributing to our understanding of the organisation and practice of formal education. Supported by relevant literature, this article reports on current challenges in conducting school-based research in Aotearoa New Zealand as experienced by one researcher....

School leaders’ perceptions on comprehensive school counseling (CSC) evaluation processes: Adherence and implementation ...

Published in Journal of Educational Leadership, Policy and Practice

Throughout their K-12 educational experience, students should have access to resources, educators, counselors, and specialists to help meet their academic, social, emotional, college, and career needs. When school leaders or principals work in collaboration with school counselors, often school climate is more positive for students, faculty, and sta...

A systems perspective on exploring the sustainability of leadership initiatives in a secondary school setting

Published in Journal of Educational Leadership, Policy and Practice

This paper uses a systems approach to examine the implementation of a design thinking (DT) initiative in a Singaporean secondary school setting. In particular, the paper uses the systems representational tools attributed to Senge (1990) to better understand the factors and relationships that underpin successful change initiatives in terms of the ch...