Article
Vice-principals’ work: More than being an instructional leader
OPC Register
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
10-1-2017
Disciplines
Citation Information
Pollock, K., Wang, F., & Hauseman, C. (2017, October). Vice-principals’ work: More than being an instructional leader. OPC Register, 19 (3), 20–24.
Teachers are often encouraged to apply for the vice-principal role because they are exceptional, with the understanding that the role has a large instructional leadership component. In reality, however, this is often not the case. As a research team, we conducted a province-wide study of vice-principals’ work in 2016, and discovered that, overwhelmingly, vice-principals do not spend nearly as much time on instructional leadership as they do on administrative tasks and student discipline.