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This paper traverses changes in perceptions of the school principal’s role, from sole to distributed leadership practices. A brief commentary on selected New Zealand literature is followed by a case study of a secondary co-principalship that identifies adaptive strategies and success factors in this joint role. The potentiality of the national Leadership Strategy (2018) and Educational Leadership Capability Framework (2018) to impact these distributed features will then be explored. The paper concludes with suggestions for future directions for distributed leadership practice in New Zealand.

An evolution in distributed educational leadership: From sole leader to co-principalship

Journal of Educational Leadership, Policy and Practice

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This paper traverses changes in perceptions of the school principal’s role, from sole to distributed leadership practices. A brief commentary on selected New...

An evolution in distributed educational leadership: From sole leader to co-principalship

Article Category: article

Published Online: Nov 19, 2020

Page range: 27 - 40

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/jelpp-2020-005

Keywords
Educational leadership, distributed leadership practice, co-principalship, New Zealand Educational Leadership Capability Framework

© 2020 Ross Notman et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

An evolution in distributed educational leadership: From sole leader to co-principalship

Article Category: article

Published Online: Nov 19, 2020

Page range: 27 - 40

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/jelpp-2020-005

KeywordsEducational leadership, distributed leadership practice, co-principalship, New Zealand Educational Leadership Capability Framework

© 2020 Ross Notman et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
Educational leadership, distributed leadership practice, co-principalship, New Zealand Educational Leadership Capability Framework