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The future of the principalship in Canada

29 Jul 2014

The report is a call to action—get rid of or blunt the distractors, and position the principal to lead the learning culture of the school and to be a system player connected to other schools and the district. [...] There is value in trying to understand the contemporary life of principals and to extrapolate the implications for the professional and personal life of the holders of that position, now and in the future. [...] Released just as our study goes to press and conducted by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in 2013, the TALIS study, in its review of the work of both teachers and school leaders, underscores the increasingly demanding and paradoxical role of the school principal globally. [...] The work of the national executive and the affiliate organizations of CAP in sponsoring the 40 focus groups across the country was vital to the success of the project. [...] The study aims to reveal and examine the current conditions of practice that both limit and enable the aspirational leadership roles of principals, situating these conditions in the context of the forces that will influence public education in Canada over the next two decades.
school management and organization educational leadership school principals
ISBN
9781927074251
Pages
150
Published in
Ottawa, Ontario