References
Section 1 Refereed Journal Articles
- Boylan, M. 2016. “Deepening System Leadership-Teachers Leading from Below.” Educational Management Administration & Leadership 44 (1): 57–72. doi:https://doi.org/10.1177/1741143213501314.
- Brown, C., and T. Greany. 2018. “The Evidence-Informed School System in England: Where Should School Leaders Be Focusing Their Efforts?” Leadership and Policy in Schools 17 (1): 115–137. doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/15700763.2016.1270330.
- Bryant, D. A. 2018. “Conditions That Support Middle Leaders’ Work in Organisational and System Leadership: Hong Kong Case Studies.” School Leadership & Management 39 (5): 415–433. doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/13632434.2018.1489790.
- Close, P. 2016. “‘System Leader’ Consultancy Development in English Schools: A Long-Term Agenda for a Democratic Future?” School Leadership & Management 36 (1): 113–132. doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/13632434.2016.1160214.
- Cousin, S. 2018. “System Leaders in England: Leaders of a Profession, or Instruments of Government?” Educational Management Administration & Leadership 47 (4): 520–537. doi:https://doi.org/10.1177/1741143217751726.
- Dimmock, C. 2016. “System Leadership for School Improvement: A Developing Concept and Set of Practices.” Scottish Educational Review 48 (2): 60–79.
- Earley, P. 2016. “Global Trends and Challenges for School Leaders: Keeping the Focus on Learning.” Journal of Educational, Cultural and Psychological Studies 14: 21–33. doi:https://doi.org/10.7358/ecps-2016-014-earl.
- Elwick, A. 2017. “Education Reform in New York City (2002–2013).” Oxford Review of Education 43 (6): 677–694. doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/03054985.2017.1296421.
- Gallagher, M. J., J. Malloy, and R. Ryerson. 2016. “Achieving Excellence-Bringing Effective Literacy Pedagogy to Scale in Ontario's Publicly-Funded Education System.” Journal of Educational Change 17 (4): 477–504.
- Godfrey, D. 2017. “What is the Proposed Role of Research Evidence in England’s ‘Self-Improving’ School System?” Oxford Review of Education 43 (4): 433–446. doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/03054985.2017.1329718.
- Greany, T. 2018. “Innovation is Possible, It’s Just Not Easy: Improvement, Innovation and Legitimacy in England’s Autonomous and Accountable School System.” Educational Management Administration & Leadership 46 (1): 65–85.
- Gumus, S., M. S. Bellibas, M. Esen, and E. Gumus. 2018. “A Systematic Review of Studies on Leadership Models in Educational Research from 1980 to 2014.” Educational Management Administration & Leadership 46 (1): 25–48. doi:https://doi.org/10.1177/1741143216659296.
- Hamilton, G., C. Forde, and M. McMahon. 2018. “Developing a Coherent Strategy to Build Leadership Capacity in Scottish Education.” Management in Education 32 (2): 72–78. doi:https://doi.org/10.1177/0892020618762715.
- Harris, A., M. Jones, and D. Adams. 2016. “Qualified to Lead? A Comparative, Contextual and Cultural View of Educational Policy Borrowing.” Educational Research 58 (2): 166–178.
- Harris, A., M. S. Jones, D. Adams, C. J. Perera, and S. Sharma. 2014. “High-Performing Education Systems in Asia: Leadership Art Meets Implementation Science.” The Asia-Pacific Education Researcher 23 (4): 861–869. doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s40299-014-0209-y.
- Hopkins, D. 2016. “School and System Reform – An Agenda for Wales.” Cylchgrawn Addysg Cymru/Wales Journal of Education 18 (1): 87–110.
- Hopkins, D., S. Stringfield, A. Author, L. Stoll, and T. Mackay. 2014. “School and System Improvement: A Narrative State-of-the-Art Review.” School Effectiveness and School Improvement 25 (2): 257–281. doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/09243453.2014.885452.
- Kamp, A. 2017. “Assembling the Actors: Exploring the Challenges of ‘System Leadership’ in Education Through Actor-Network Theory.” Journal of Education Policy, 1–15. doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/02680939.2017.1380231.
- Levin, B. B., and L. Schrum. 2013. “Using Systems Thinking to Leverage Technology for School Improvement.” Journal of Research on Technology in Education 46 (1): 29–51. doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/15391523.2013.10782612.
- Mitchell, C., and L. Sackney. 2016. “School Improvement in High-Capacity Schools.” Educational Management Administration & Leadership 44 (5): 853–868. doi:https://doi.org/10.1177/1741143214564772.
- Mowat, J. G. 2018. “‘Closing the Gap’: Systems Leadership is no Leadership at all Without a Moral Compass – a Scottish Perspective.” School Leadership & Management 39 (1): 48–75. doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/13632434.2018.1447457.
- Naicker, S., and R. Mestry. 2015. “Developing Educational Leaders: A Partnership Between Two Universities to Bring About System–Wide Change.” South African Journal of Education 35 (2): 1–11.
- Robinson, V., S. McNaughton, and H. Timperley. 2011. “Building Capacity in a Self-Managing Schooling System- The New Zealand Experience.” Journal of Educational Administration 49 (6).
- Sentocnik, S., G. C. Sales, and J. W. Richardson. 2016. “Educational Reform in Georgia: Recommendations for Building Leadership Capacity as a Critical Success Factor for Instructional Change.” International Journal of Leadership in Education, 1–18. doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/13603124.2016.1224931.
- Shaked, H., and C. Schechter. 2014. “Systems School Leadership: Exploring an Emerging Construct.” Journal of Educational Administration 52 (6): 792–811. doi:https://doi.org/10.1108/jea-07-2013-0081.
- Shaked, H., and C. Schechter. 2020. “Systems Thinking Leadership: New Explorations for School Improvement.” Management in Education. doi:https://doi.org/10.1177/0892020620907327.
- Sheppard, B., and D. Dibbon. 2011. “Improving the Capacity of School System Leaders and Teachers to Design Productive Learning Environments.” Leadership and Policy in Schools 10 (2): 125–144. doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/15700763.2010.502610.
- Simkins, T., J. Coldron, M. Crawford, and B. Maxwell. 2019. “Emerging Schooling Landscapes in England: How Primary System Leaders are Responding to New School Groupings.” Educational Management Administration & Leadership 47 (3): 331–348.
- Simon, C. A. 2015. “Are Two Heads Better Than One? System School Leadership Explained and Critiqued.” School Leadership & Management 35 (5): 544–558. doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/13632434.2015.1107035.
- Smeds-Nylund, A.-S., R. Sundqvist, and M. Uljens. 2016. “Educational Leadership for Sustained Multi-Level School Development in Finland – A Non-Affirmative Approach.” Nordic Studies in Education 36 (2): 103–124. doi:https://doi.org/10.18261/issn.1891-5949-2016-02-03.
- Southworth, G., and H. D. Quesnay. 2005. “School Leadership and System Leadership.” The Educational Forum 69 (2): 212–220. doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/00131720508984685.
- Spillane, J. P., and M. Hopkins. 2013. “Organizing for Instruction in Education Systems and School Organizations: How the Subject Matters.” Journal of Curriculum Studies 45 (6): 721–747. doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/00220272.2013.810783.
- Spillane, J. P., J. L. Seelig, N. L. Blaushild, D. K. Cohen, and D. J. Peurach. 2019. “Educational System Building in a Changing Educational Sector: Environment, Organization, and the Technical Core.” Educational Policy 33 (6): 846–881. doi:https://doi.org/10.1177/0895904819866269.
- Szeto, E. 2019. “School Leadership in the Reforms of the Hong Kong Education System: Insights into School-Based Development in Policy Borrowing and Indigenising.” School Leadership & Management, 1–22. doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/13632434.2019.1616172.
- Toh, Y., A. Jamaludin, W. L. D. Hung, and P. M.-H. Chua. 2014. “Ecological Leadership: Going Beyond System Leadership for Diffusing School-Based Innovations in the Crucible of Change for 21st Century Learning.” The Asia-Pacific Education Researcher 23 (4): 835–850. doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s40299-014-0211-4.
- VoslooLieschen, M. M., and V. L. Venter. 2018. “A Systems Perspective on School Improvement Approaches.” International Journal of Applied Systemic Studies 8 (2). doi:https://doi.org/10.1504/IJASS.2018.10014105.
- Watterston, J., S. Dinham, and B. Caldwell. 2011. “System Alignment as a Key Strategy in Building Capacity for School Transformation.” Journal of Educational Administration 49 (6): 637–652. doi:https://doi.org/10.1108/09578231111174794.
- Weinstein, J., and M. Hernández. 2015. “Birth Pains: Emerging School Leadership Policies in Eight School Systems of Latin America.” International Journal of Leadership in Education 19 (3): 241–263. doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/13603124.2015.1020344.
- Weinstein, J., and M. H. Vejar. 2014. “Policies to Improve the Leadership of School Principals in Chile – A Comparison Against Other Latin American School Systems – Abstract Only in English.” Psicoperspectivas 13 (3): 52–68. doi:https://doi.org/10.5027/PSICOPERSPECTIVAS-VOL13-ISSUE3José.
Section 2 Books
- Beehner, C. G. 2020. System Leadership for Sustainability. New York: Routledge.
- Coffey, G. 2010. A Systems Approach to Leadership: How to Create Sustained High Performance in a Complex and Uncertain Environment Hardcover. Berlin: Springer.
- Cousin, S. 2016. System Leadership: Are System Leaders in the English Education System Leaders of a Profession Or Instruments of Government? London: UCL (University College London).
- Cousin, S. 2019. System Leadership: Policy and Practice in the English Schools System. 1st ed. Bloomsbury Academic.
- Earley, P., and T. Greany. 2017. School Leadership and Education System Reform. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.
- Macdonald, I., C. G. Burke, and K. Stewart. 2020. Systems Leadership: Creating Positive Organisations. 2nd ed. Gower Publishing Limited.
- Robinson, S. 2012. School and System Leadership: Changing Roles for Primary Head Teachers. 1st ed. Bloomsbury Publishing.
- Shaked, H., and C. Schechter. 2017. Systems Thinking for School Leaders: Holistic Leadership for Excellence in Education. Springer.
- Thompson, W. R., and L. Zakhirova. 2019. Racing to the Top: How Energy Fuels System Leadership in World Politics. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Timmins, N. 2015. The Practice of System Leadership: Being Comfortable with Chaos. King's Fund.
Section 3 Book Chapters
- Ahtaridou, E., and D. Hopkins. 2012. “System Leadership a Response to the Challenges Facing Urban Schools in England.” In Urban Education: A Model For Leadership And Policy, 135–149. New York: Routledge.
- Precey, R., and T. Bennett. 2019. “Effective Systems’ Leadership in a Rapidly Changing English Education System Ways Forward for US Superintendents.” In Contemporary Superintendent: (R)evolutionary Leadership in An Era of Reform Book Series: Research on the Superintendency, 37–52. New York: Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data.
Section 4 Dissertations
- Accardi, I. 2016. “The Role of System Leaders in Promoting Teacher Leadership in Small Schools.” PhD, Esteves School of Education, Russell Sage College.
- Cousin, S. 2016. “System Leadership: Are System Leaders in the English Education System Leaders of a Profession Or Instruments of Government?” PhD. London: UCL (University College London ).
- Nasmyth, G. 2012. “Leadership as a System-Wide Construct: A Narrative Exploration of the Collaborative Process.” PhD, Fielding Graduate University.
- Wilkinson, S. 2016. “The Qualities and Practices of Effective System Leaders: Primary Headteachers.” PhD, Institute of Education, UCL.
Section 5 Conference Papers
- Naicker, S. R. 2015. “The Role of the School District in Promoting System Leadership.” Paper Presented at the 8th International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation (ICERI), November 16–20, Seville, Spain.
Section 6 Grey Literature (Websites/Blogs/Commentaries)
- Carter, D. 2016. “What Do the Best Education System Leaders Do?” Accessed April 15, 2020. https://schoolsweek.co.uk/building-an-education-system-on-collaboration-leadership-and-great-governance/
- Clarke, P. 2017. “What Are Teaching Schools and System Leaders?” Accessed May 1, 2020. https://nctl.blog.gov.uk/2017/07/31/what-are-teaching-schools-and-system-leaders/.
- Department for Education. 2020a. Teaching School Hubs and System Leadership: How You Can Get Involved.
- Department for Education. 2020b. Teaching Schools and System Leaders: Get Support for You and Your School System Leaders: Who They Are and What They Do. Accessed April 15, 2020. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/system-leaders-who-they-are-and-what-they-do.
- Enlightenment, RSC. 2016. Creative Public Leadership – How School System Leaders Can Create the Conditions For System-Wide Innovation. Accessed May 2, 2020. https://www.thersa.org/discover/publications-and-articles/articles/creative-public-leadership-how-school-system-leaders-can-create-the-conditions-for-system-wide-innovation.
- European Commission. 2020. Teachers and School Leaders in Schools as Learning Organisations Guiding Principles for Policy Development in School Education. Accessed May 10, 2020. https://www.schooleducationgateway.eu/downloads/Governance/2018-wgs4-learning-organisations_en.pdf.
- Godin, S. 2019. System Leadership and School Improvement. Accessed May 22, 2020. https://www.teachertoolkit.co.uk/2019/01/20/system-leadership/.
- Hill, R. 2011. The Importance of Teaching and the Role of System Leadership. Accessed May 10, 2020. https://dera.ioe.ac.uk/10431/1/download%3Fid%3D153443%26filename%3Dsystem-leadership-illuminas-research.pdf.
- IAE (The International Academy of Education). 2011. System-Wide Improvement in Education. Accessed April 26, 2020. https://ssh.is/images/stories/S%C3%B3knar%C3%A1%C3%A6tlun/heimas%C3%AD%C3%B0a/Ben%20levin%20-%20system%20wide%20changes.pdf.
- Morley, S., and S. Godson. 2014. System Leadership Building Capacity for School to School Support in Norfolk. Retrieved April 15, 2020. https://www.schools.norfolk.gov.uk/view/NCC127846.
- Nannyonjo, H. 2017. “Effective Ways for Developing School Leadership.” Accessed April 12, 2020. https://blogs.worldbank.org/education/effective-ways-developing-school-leadership.
- Ribeiro, J. 2016. “Why School System Leaders Need to be Systems Thinkers?” Accessed April 1, 2020. https://www.gettingsmart.com/2016/03/school-system-leaders-need-systems-thinkers/.
- Senge, P., H. Hamilton, and J. K. Winter. 2015. “The Dawn of System Leadership.” Accessed April 17, 2020. https://ssir.org/articles/entry/the_dawn_of_system_leadership.
- Shires (Teaching School Alliance). 2015. System Leaders. Accessed April 15, 2020. https://shirestsa.co.uk/school-to-school-support/leaders-in-education/.
- Siraj-Blatchford, I., and C. W. Sum. 2013. Understanding and Advancing Systems Leadership in the Early Years. Accessed February 2, 2020. https://www.yor-ok.org.uk/downloads/Childcare%20Strategy/understanding-and-advancing-systems-leadership-in-the-early-years1.pdf.
- Strategy, O. L. 2014. Ideas into Action for School and System Leaders-Exploring Five Core Leadership Capacities Promoting Collaborative Learning Cultures: Putting the Promise into Practice. Accessed April 17, 2020. http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/policyfunding/leadership/IdeasIntoActionBulletin3.pdf.
- Theobald, K. 2019. Is It the System that Needs to Change, or School Leaders? Accessed April 25, 2020. https://schoolsweek.co.uk/is-it-the-system-that-needs-to-change-or-school-leaders/.
- University of Wales Trinity Saint David. 2017. Effective System Leadership Crucial to Reform Agenda, Says Guiding Coalition. Accessed April 16, 2020. https://athrofa.cymru/2017/04/26/effective-system-leadership-crucial-to-reform-agenda-says-guiding-coalition/.
Country Specific References
- Campbell, C. 2020. “Educational Equity in Canada: The Case of Ontario’s Strategies and Actions to Advance Excellence and Equity for Students.” School Leadership & Management. doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/13632434.2019.1709165.
- Chapman, C. 2019. Making Sense of Reform: Where Next for Scottish Education? Other. Manchester: Association of Directors of Education in Scotland/The Staff College.
- Hopkins, D., and R. Higham. 2007. “System Leadership: Mapping the Landscape.” School Leadership and Management 27 (2): 147–166.
- Ng, P. T. 2017. Learning from Singapore: The Power of Paradoxes. New York: Routledge.
Other References
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- Pont, B., D. Nusche, and D. Hopkins. 2008. Improving School Leadership, Vol. 2. Paris: OECD.
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