How School Principals Sustain Success over Time International Perspe

This pioneering account of a longitudinal study – the International Successful School Principal Project (ISSPP) - of successful school principals over five years in Australia, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, England and the USA will be required reading for educa

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Studies in Educational Leadership VOLUME 14 Series Editor Kenneth A. Leithwood, OISE, University of Toronto, Canada Editorial Board Christopher Day, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom Stephen L. Jacobson, Graduate School of Education, Buffalo, U.S.A. Bill Mulford, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia Peter Sleegers, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands

SCOPE OF THE SERIES Leadership we know makes all the difference in success or failures of organizations. This series will bring together in a highly readable way the most recent insights in successful leadership. Emphasis will be placed on research focused on pre-collegiate educational organizations. Volumes should address issues related to leadership at all levels of the educational system and be written in a style accessible to scholars, educational practitioners and policy makers throughout the world. The volumes – monographs and edited volumes – should represent work from different parts in the world.

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Lejf Moos  •  Olof Johansson  •  Christopher Day Editors

How School Principals Sustain Success over Time International Perspectives

Editors Lejf Moos Danish School of Education Aarhus University Tuborgvej 164 2400 Copenhagen, NV Denmark [email protected]

Olof Johansson Centre for Principal Development University of Umeå S-901 87 Umeå Sweden [email protected]

Christopher Day School of Education University of Nottingham Jubilee Campus Nottingham NG8 1BB, UK [email protected]

ISBN 978-94-007-1334-5 e-ISBN 978-94-007-1335-2 DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-1335-2 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2011929033 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)

Contents

  1 Introduction to the International Successful School Principalship Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lejf Moos, Christopher Day, and Olof Johansson

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  2 Sustaining School and Leadership Success in Two Australian Schools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lawrie Drysdale, Helen Goode, and David Gurr

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  3 Danish Successful School Leadership – Revisited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lejf Moos and Klaus Kasper Kofod   4 Sustainable Improvement: The Significance of Ethos and Leadership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jorunn Møller, Gunn Vedøy, Anne Marie Presthus, and Guri Skedsmo   5 Swedish Successful Schools Revisited . . .