Leadership for school success: Lessons from effective principals

International Journal of Educational Management

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 798-811

  Garza, Encarnacion ^a   Drysdale, Lawrie ^b   Gurr, David ^b   Jacobson, Stephen ^c   Merchant, Betty ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Building leadership capacity; Leadership sustainability; Persistence; Resiliency; School leadership; Successful schools

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926336180     PISSN: 0951354X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/IJEM-08-2013-0125     Document Type: Article

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