School middle leadership: A systematic review

K Lipscombe, S Tindall-Ford… - Educational …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
School middle leadership is a complex and increasingly important school leadership
position, with research showing the significance of middle leadership to school improvement …

Principal-designed structures that enhance middle leaders' professional learning

DA Bryant, A Walker - … Management Administration & …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Middle leaders in schools are increasingly recognised as playing pivotal roles in school
improvement. Although some school systems provide formal professional development for …

Middle leadership practices in secondary schools associated with improved student outcomes

C Highfield, C Rubie-Davies - School Leadership & Management, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
This paper describes findings related to the effectiveness of secondary school middle
leaders as a contributor to within-school variation in academic results for students at …

Science mapping the evolution of middle leadership research, 2002–2023

D Adams, JS Sothinathan… - Educational Management …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This systematic review aimed to examine the evolution of middle leadership research in a 21-
year period, starting from 2002 to 2023, by employing bibliometric methods to examine the …

Does middle leaders' learning-centred leadership matter in promoting teacher professional learning? A partial least squares analysis

LM Thien, M Uthai, SB Yeap - … Management Administration & …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
The ignorance of the role of middle leaders as a 'key broker'between school principals and
teachers in the literature has motivated this study to investigate the effects of middle leaders' …

Investigating the roles of middle leaders in New South Wales public schools: Factor analyses of the Middle Leadership Roles Questionnaire

JD Nobile, K Lipscombe… - Educational …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This article reports on factor analyses of the Middle Leadership Roles Questionnaire–School
Edition (MLRQ-SE) that were conducted to test a theoretical model. This work was …

Middle leaders as policy translators: prime actors in the enactment of policy

C Skerritt, G McNamara, I Quinn, J O'hara… - Journal of Education …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This paper picks up and elaborates on the conception of policy translators in schools–key
actors in the enactment of policy. The qualitative data presented here highlight how it is often …

Stepping into middle leadership: A hermeneutic phenomenological study

N Ghamrawi, T Shal, NAR Ghamrawi - International Journal of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Several studies have examined the crucial role played by middle leaders in school
improvement, but little is known about the experiences of novice middle leaders during their …

Aspiring teachers, financial incentives, and principals' recruitment practices in hard-to-staff schools

J Blackmore, L Hobbs, J Rowlands - Journal of Education Policy, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The crisis of teacher shortages in Anglophone nation states can no longer be ignored as this
long-term issue has been compounded by the pandemic. Growing evidence of the …

Pedagogical leadership within the framework of human talent management: a comprehensive approach from the perspective of higher education in Ecuador

MFC Martínez, DJM Velazco, MN Cejas… - … Integration of Education, 2021 - eosj.mrsu.ru
Materials and Methods. The research carried out was part of the development of the mixed
or qualitative methodology. This was a two-phase sequential study. The first quantitative …