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Elementary School Principals’ Experiences With Trust And Trust-Building, Emily Luuri
Elementary School Principals’ Experiences With Trust And Trust-Building, Emily Luuri
Educational Studies Dissertations
Research on leadership within schools has examined principals’ varied and complex tasks and highlighted their responsibility to promote positive relationships with their staff. Prominent in that research and in the professional literature on school leadership are arguments that staff trust of a principal—resulting from the principal’s trust-building actions—is a crucial factor for school improvement. Despite this priority, there remains a need to study the ways in which principals come to understand the nature of trust and cultivate it within schools. Thus, the purpose of this narrative study was to examine the stories of elementary school principals to derive an understanding …