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Conceptualizing Instructional Leadership

The Voices of Principals

Ulrich C. Reitzug

University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Deborah L. West

University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Roma Angel

Appalachian State University, Boone, NC

Instructional leadership has long been advocated as a primary responsibility of principals. What is unclear, however, is the role that instructional leadership plays in the current high-stakes testing era in the daily work lives of principals, how they practice as instructional leaders, and toward what instructional outcomes they strive. This study focused on how principals understand the relationship between their daily work and the improvement of instruction in their schools. The study incorporates the voices of 20 principals. Multiple conceptions of instructional leadership are identified and problematic aspects of these conceptions are discussed.

Key Words: principals • instructional leadership • prophetic education

This version was published on September 1, 2008

Education and Urban Society, Vol. 40, No. 6, 694-714 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/0013124508319583
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