Student Leadership: The Importance Of Academic Leadership

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Academic leadership has an important influence on learners. It can motivate and challenge students to work harder and pursue higher education and succeed. Yet, the wrong kind of leadership by teachers and administrators can have the opposite effect and result in discouraging students in their study cause educational failure (Rouse, 2012). The purpose of this paper is to review two academic piece of writing that were written from different perspectives regarding the of the importance of leadership in the school life. Roby (2011) examined the effect and the power of teachers who are good leaders on school environments. The second article by Myung, Loeb, and Horng (2011) is a research paper that investigates the need of finding instructors that have the experience and the leadership skills to become highly effective principals.
Teacher Leaders Impacting School Culture Roby (2011) studied the responsibility of teacher and their importance in exercising real leadership. The author 's study revealed the effect that academic leaders have on the atmospheric and cultural aspects that every school develops over time. Roby (2011) emphasized the importance of the cultures that develop within schools. He sought to
(2011, p.708) offered four questions in their investigation. The authors used an explanatory examination to answer the first research question, which asked how many principals now seek to tap into their pool of teachers to fill the needs of future leaders. The writers discovered that around 1/3 of all the teachers in the Miami-Dade County school district had been contacted by principals about becoming future principals. They also learned, through their research, that around nine out of every ten principals and/or assistant principals had been challenged to move into a leadership position. These results yielded evidence that reaching out to teachers by current principals is an effective way to find new leadership for future needs (Rouse,

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