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The Managerial Imperative and the Practice of Leadership in Schools

Larry Cuban
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The article was published on 1988-01-15 and is currently open access. It has received 637 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Servant leadership & Shared leadership.

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The Impact of Leadership on Student Outcomes: An Analysis of the Differential Effects of Leadership Types

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relative impact of different types of leadership on students' academic and non-academic outcomes and concluded that the average effect of instructional leadership on student outcomes was three to four times that of transformational leadership.
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Leading Educational Change: reflections on the practice of instructional and transformational leadership

TL;DR: This article reviewed the conceptual and empirical development of instructional and transformational leadership models and concluded that the suitability or effectiveness of a particular leadership model is linked to factors in the external environment and the local context of a school.
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Towards a theory of leadership practice: a distributed perspective

TL;DR: This article developed a distributed perspective on school leadership as a frame for studying leadership practice, arguing that leadership practice is constituted in the interaction of school leaders, followers, and the situation, and developed a framework for studying the interaction between school leaders and followers.
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Policy Implementation and Cognition: Reframing and Refocusing Implementation Research

TL;DR: This article developed a cognitive framework to characterize sense-making in the implementation process that is especially relevant for recent education policy initiatives, such as standards-based reforms that press for tremendous changes in classroom instruction.
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Exploring the Principal's Contribution to School Effectiveness: 1980‐1995∗

TL;DR: This paper reviewed research from 1980-1995 exploring the relationship between principal leadership and student achievement and found that principals exercise a measurable, though indirect, effect on school effectiveness and student performance, while this indirect effect is relatively small, it is statistically significant and supports the general belief among educators that principals contribute to school effectiveness.
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