Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of leadership on student
achievement and sustained school success, especially in challenging, high‐poverty …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore successful school principalship in Cyprus
based on a ten-year research project, and in particular, by analysing leadership knowledge …

This article draws on studies of culturally responsive teaching (eg Ladson-Billings, 1994;
Villegas & Lucas, 2002) and African American women principals in urban schools (see, eg …

This study examined the beliefs and practices of three principals during whose tenure their
high-poverty urban elementary schools experienced improved student achievement. A two …

This paper extends the introduction to the authors' study of successful school leadership and
how it influences pupil outcomes begun in the Editorial introduction. Critical to an …

Purpose–In this paper, the authors present a case study of successful school leadership at
County Line Middle School. The purpose of the paper is to identify how particular leadership …

This article provides a cross‐national perspective on successful school principalship in three
countries derived from an analysis of case studies in the International Successful School …

There is a growing belief that educational leadership is second only to the work of teachers
in terms of impact on student learning of school-controlled factors (Leithwood, et al., 2004; …

Large, sustained, multinational, and collaborative research networks are becoming more
popular because of their power to produce findings that generalize across contexts as well …

This article examines the practices of principals who have successfully improved student
performance in challenging, high poverty elementary schools. The work begins with a brief …