Successful school leadership in Australia: A research agenda

Abstract

The Australian education context is characterised by increasing public scrutiny of school performance and an expectation that all schools should, within contextual boundaries, produce high level student outcomes. Whilst discussion of successful schools and successful school leadership is a relatively recent phenomenon, it is now an important concept for research, policy and practice. This paper reports on models of successful school leadership developed over the past decade, and associated issues of instructional and sustainable leadership, and leadership preparation. © Common Ground, David Mark Gurr, Lawrie Drysdale, Helen Goode.