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Three Kinds of Principals

October 27, 2008

Eric Camburn and colleagues recently examined three aspects of principals' priorities and practice. Their study revealed three kinds of principals: Student leaders, who focus on student affairs; instructional leaders, who focus most on instructional leadership; and eclectic leaders, who distribute their activities evenly across different areas of responsibility. The study measured how principals allocate their attention across major realms of responsibility; to what extent principals in different contexts emphasize different realms of responsibility; and to what extent individual attributes affect how principals allocate their attention across realms. Contextual conditions were found to predict membership in any of these three groups, while individual characteristics were not. More about Camburn’s research is available here.