School middle leadership
A systematic review
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21784112 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kylie Lipscombe (0000-0001-9433-7971), Sharon Tindall‐Ford (0000-0002-1451-020X), Jodi Lamanna (0000-0001-6614-6246) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 270-288 |
| Publication date | 2023-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Educational Management Administration & Leadership (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1741-1432 • E-ISSN: 1741-1440 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1741143220983328 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 57 |
| References cited | 48 |
School middle leadership is a complex and increasingly important school leadership position, with research showing the significance of middle leadership to school improvement and teacher development. The purpose of this article is to identify and analyse empirical peer reviewed articles on middle leadership from 2006 to 2020, to understand how middle leaders are defined, the responsibilities they hold, the impact and professional development they are afforded, and to discover lacunae in studies to support further research. The review was conducted using Scopus and ERIC; a total of 35 articles across 14 countries were selected. Using Nvivo, narrative synthesis was utilised to analyse the articles resulting in four conclusions: 1) middle leadership is difficult to define; 2) middle leadership positions and responsibilities vary considerably and are best understood in context; 3) middle leaders directly and indirectly impact teacher practice, team development, school reform and professional learning, although there is limited direct research into their impact; and 4) middle leadership professional learning has not progressed to the point to adequately equip middle leaders for the complexity of their positions. The article highlights two distinguishable differences to separate teachers and middle leaders, and provides an operational definition, elaborated description and set of middle leadership characteristics to guide future research and policy advancement
Leadership practices and teacher professional learning and development in public senior high schools in Ghana
From support to strategy
Conformación de comunidades de aprendizaje profesional en Chile
Distributed leadership of middle leaders in a Singapore polytechnic
Disadvantaged middle leaders in disadvantaged schools?
Conceptualizing middle leadership within the South African schools’ context
School leadership practices, challenges and opportunities in Spain from key agents’ perspective
Understanding School Middle-Leading Practices
Middle Leadership and Social Emotional Intelligence
Teacher and Middle Leader Research
First Level Leadership in Schools
Advancing Middle Level Leadership
Middle Leadership Roles Questionnaire—School Edition (Catalan) (MLRQ-SE-CAT) as an Instrument to Study the Roles and Practices of Cycle Coordinators as Middle Leaders
Curriculum Middle Leader Practices and Teachers Perceptions of Their Effectiveness
Multi-Level Leadership Development Using Co-Constructed Spaces with Schools
Middle leaders and school improvement work in light of principal turnover
The unique role of school middle leaders in enacting social justice leadership
Spanners and enhancers
Instructional leadership malfunction in rural areas
Culturally responsive leadership practices in secondary schools that lead to positive academic achievement for Māori and Pacific students
School middle leadership
Enacting distributed leadership in the Republic of Ireland
Middle leaders as policy actors
Cross-Sector internship insights
Cycle coordinators leading teachers
Middle leaders’ facilitation of teacher learning in collaborative teams
Fostering teacher leadership for inclusion
Capturing interactions between middle leaders and teacher entrepreneurial behaviour
Experiences of women in middle leadership – barriers and enablers
The organisational context of middle management role behaviour in Hungarian schools
“They’re coming to us and we don’t have any training” - Professional learning approaches for secondary Australian school year advisors
Validación de un cuestionario de liderazgo intermedio para profesores responsables de un departamento didáctico
Determinants of middle leaders' career aspirations
Instructional leadership in school middle leaders
From leadership to allegiance
Middle leaders as catalysts for faux comprehension and pseudo-understanding
An investigation of the practices of middle leaders in Australian schools
Primary school mathematics leaders as brokers of professional learning
Understanding middle leaders’ concerns in curriculum change
How Principals' Systems Thinking Shapes Teacher Team Effectiveness
Understanding Middle Leaders' Distributed Leadership Factors as Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Fostering Teacher Commitment to Change
The Effect of Collectivism on Teacher Professional Learning Through Shared Instructional Leadership
Bringing purpose and peace-of-mind to the role of a Catholic school middle leader
A review of empirical research on equitable school leadership practices for students from low socioeconomic status backgrounds
Place and Policy for Mathematics Education
The influence of culture on the leadership and management styles of assistant principals in Palestinian Arab elementary schools in East Jerusalem
School middle leaders’ personality traits and collective teachers’ efficacy
Middle leaders in higher education
School middle leadership
Middle leaders as policy translators
The effect of department leadership on teacher professional learning in China
Building middle leading practice through pedagogy-focused professional development
Unpacking the linkages between beliefs and behavioural intention for curriculum reform
Perspectives of women as they navigate their path to principalship in Australian secondary schools
Science mapping the evolution of middle leadership research, 2002–2023
The roles of middle leaders in reinforcing academic optimism
How principals’ instructional leadership impacts schools’ middle leadership
The Impact of Leadership on Student Outcomes
Teacher leadership
A review of the empirical research on teacher leadership (2003–2017)
Distributed leadership in practice
Department-Head Leadership for School Improvement
What Do We Know About Teacher Leadership? Findings From Two Decades of Scholarship
The Theoretical and Empirical Basis of Teacher Leadership
Seven strong claims about successful school leadership revisited
Towards a theoretical model of middle leadership in schools
Middle leading in Australian schools
How middle leaders support in-service teachers’ on-site professional learning
Spies, surveillance and pedagogical middle leadership
The performative shift
| Unique citing works | 57 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 11,4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 57 |