Instructional Leadership and the School Principal: A Passing Fancy that Refuses to Fade Away

One lasting legacy of the effective schools movement was the institutionalization of the term “instructional leadership” into the vocabulary of educational administration. Evidence from other recent reviews of the literature on principal leadership (e.g., Hallinger, 2001 Hallinger, P. A review of two decades of research on the principalship using the Principal Instructional Management Rating Scale. annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Paper presented at the, Seattle, WA [Google Scholar]; Hallinger & Heck 1996 Hallinger, P. and Heck, R. 1996a. Reassessing the principal’s role in school effectiveness: A review of empirical research, 1980–1995. Educational Administration Quarterly,…