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Effective Leadership: Perceptions Of Principals And The Teachers They Lead, Pamela Murphy Helms Jan 2012

Effective Leadership: Perceptions Of Principals And The Teachers They Lead, Pamela Murphy Helms

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A small public school system in the piedmont of North Carolina was the setting for this study. Individual school data, as well as aggregated data from studied schools were analyzed in order to form overall conclusions of perceptions of leadership within the district. Schools were grouped according to the age of the student (elementary K-5, secondary 6-12) in an effort to provide the opportunity for further data analyses.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the principals' self-reported leadership behaviors and the teachers' perceptions of the principals' leadership behaviors using Kouzes and Posner's Leadership Practices Inventory …