LEADERSHIP IN

SCHOOLS
Seven Core Functions
1. Instructional Leadership
 Ensuring quality of instruction, modeling
teaching practices, supervising
curriculum, and ensuring quality of
teaching resources.
2. Cultural Leadership
 Tending to the symbolic resources of the
school (its traditions, climate, and
history).
3. Managerial Leadership
 Overseeing the operations of the school
(its budget, schedule, facilities, safety and
security, and transportation).
4. Human Resource
Leadership
 Recruting,
hiring, firing, inducting, and
mentoring teachers and administrators;
developing leadership capacity and
professional development opportunities.
5. Strategic Leadership
 Promotingvision, mission, and goals- and
developing a means to reach them.
6. External Development
Leadership
 Representing the school in the
community, developing capital, tending to
public relations, recruiting students,
buffering and mediating external interests,
and advocating for the school’s interests.
7. Micropolitical Leadership
 Buffering
and mediating internal interests
while maximizing resources (financial and
human).
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 All seven areas are important, no school
could afford to neglect any one of them.
 Although principals are responsible for
ensuring that leadership happens in all
seven areas, they don’t necessarily need
to provide direct leadership in each area.
 The principal must be at least aware of
each of the seven functions and know
who is responsible for providing primary
leadership in those areas.