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Finding and Promoting Effective Leaders

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Given the established importance of leadership to effective and successful schools, this chapter explores the identification, preparation, and development of future school leaders. The chapter explores the strengths and weaknesses of preparation programs and outlines current policy and practice. Comprehensive programs that provide traditional and alternative career pathways, which can identify potential leaders early, provide a range of authentic activities that can help assess their capabilities and support their development, and prepare them for the role is now the conventional wisdom. The chapter also highlights the problematic nature of the identification of effective leaders and how they are selected to the job. It draws on research from a range of jurisdictions around the world.

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Drysdale, L., Gurr, D. (2022). Finding and Promoting Effective Leaders. In: The Palgrave Handbook of Educational Leadership and Management Discourse. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39666-4_24-1

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