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Peer reviewedLeithwood, Kenneth; Jantzi, Doris – School Leadership & Management, 2000
A study used survey data from an achieved sample of 1,818 elementary teachers and 6,490 students in a large Canadian school district to explore teacher and principal leadership influences on student engagement with school. Principal-leadership effects were weak but significant; teacher-leadership effects proved insignificant. (Contains 59…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Educational Environment, Elementary Education, Family Environment
Download full textLeithwood, Kenneth; And Others – 1997
The study reported in this paper inquired about the extent to which perceptions of teacher leadership were influenced by factors similar to those that influence perceptions of transformational principal leadership. The study consisted of a survey of all staff members in one large school district and interviews with teachers in six secondary…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Leadership Qualities, Principals
Peer reviewedLeithwood, Kenneth; Steinbach, Rosanne; Ryan, Sherrill – School Leadership & Management, 1997
Motivated by the increasing prevalence of shared decision making and distributed leadership in restructured schools, six teams of Canadian secondary teachers were interviewed to explore their collective learning and the conditions influencing it. Qualitative and quantitative evidence identified numerous conditions to explain across-team learning…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Cooperative Learning, Foreign Countries, Interviews
