Impact of School Principal Leadership
Jeevan Khanal, Ph.D. Scholar
Chonbuk Nationall University, South Korea
Sae-Hoon Park, Ph.D. & Professor
Department of Education,
Chonbuk National University, South Korea
Abstract:
There is nothing new or especially controversial about effective school principal leadership makes a
different in improving school climate. Recent research by the researchers from the field of educational
administration, leadership, policy and planning has brought into focus the priorities of effective principal
and the measured impact of principal leadership on student learning. But still much is left to be known
regarding the impact of school principals’ leadership on school improvement. A purpose of this articles
review is to identify the role and consequence of school principal leadership for overall development of
school. This article reviews recent articles in school leadership that support the arguments school
principals matter to successful school and innovation, student achievement, teacher motivation and
instructional excellence. The cumulative message given by the review of articles published from 2010 to
2015 is that (a) more democratic transformational leadership, distributed leadership, transactional
approaches and instructional leadership is increasingly seen as a feature of effective leadership for
organizational change(b) Principal leadership behaviors and his/ her effectiveness potentially impact both
teachers and students achievement.(c) the principal can influence on the students behavior, teachers
motivation, productivity and effectiveness of their school. (d) responsible and effective principals create a
warm and nurturing environment for teachers, parents and students and work together with them for
improvement. (e) the professional development programs are beneficial for school principal and should
focused on practical approach. A limitation of this study is that the almost all research articles represents
data predominantly from developed country especially USA restricting a global applicability of results.
Keywords: principal, leadership, instructional leadership, transformational leadership, distributed
leadership, student achievement, organizational change