Many studies examine the importance of teachers in students' learning, but few exist on the contribution of principals … of principals' value added to be 0.12 -0.17. We find that the match between principals and schools accounts for a …-test score school inputs and outcomes regardless of the new principal's value added, but that brand new principals have a …

schools. We find that individual principals have a substantive impact on school policies, working conditions and student …The role of school principals largely resembles that of corporate managers and the leadership they provide are often … outcomes, by constructing a principal-school panel data set that allows us to track individual principals as they move between …

"In Contextual Intelligence in School Leadership the author presents a new leadership construct suitable for the 21st … century context of school improvement. He presents school leadership from contextual intelligence perspective as a function of … exercised to exert influence on the core areas of practice, including student learning, teacher development and school …