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Middle Leading In Australian Schools: Professional Standards, Positions, And Professional Development, Kylie Lipscombe, Christine Grice, Sharon K. Tindall-Ford, John J. De Nobile

Faculty of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities - Papers

In Australia, there is a national education agenda for school improvement with an increasing focus on how school leaders can fulfil this agenda. As school principals are arguably faced with increasing demands, the importance of school middle leaders is increasing. This article presents the initial findings from a larger project on middle leadership in Australian schools, the first phase of which is a documentary analysis of significant texts including policy documents, websites and reports. The purpose of the document analysis was to examine expectations placed on, and support provided for, school middle leaders in Australian schools to make explicit the …