The Relationship Between Elementary Principals' Visionary Leadership and Students' Reading Performance

Abstract

This article focuses on elementary principals as instructional leaders, as well as public school initiatives and educational accountability in the United States. It presents the methodology, instrumentation, measures of academic achievement in Florida, data collection, and processing procedures. Finally, it presents data analysis, results of the study, implications, and recommendations for further research.

Key words:

• culture
• reading achievement
• school improvement and accountability; student achievement
• visionary leadership