Australian principal instructional leadership: Direct and indirect influence

Magis

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 299-314

  Gurr Mark, David ^a   Drysdale George, Lawrie ^a   Mulford, Bill ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Principal instructional leadership; School improvement; Successful school leadership

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053489554     PISSN: 20271174     EISSN: 20271182     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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