Designing and piloting a Leadership Daily Practice log: Using logs to study the practice of leadership

Educational Administration Quarterly

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 375-423

  Spillane, James P ^a   Zuberi, Anita ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed leadership; Instructional leadership; Methodology; School leadership; School management

Indexed keywords

EID: 69249164770     PISSN: 0013161X     EISSN: 15523519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013161X08329290     Document Type: Article

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