Article
Why teacher leaders don’t want to be principals: Evidence from Arkansas
Education Working Paper Archive
(2009)
Abstract
This study investigates why teachers, identified by their school principal as being leaders or having leadership potential, chose not to become school principals. At a time in which the literature is reporting a shortage of qualified applicants for school administrative positions the identified reasons most cited by teacher leaders include testing/accountability pressures too great, job generally too stressful, too much time required, and societal problems make it difficult to focus on instruction. The key factors for teacher leaders choosing not to pursue a career in school administration are categorized as stress and time demands are too great.
Keywords
- Principal,
- leadership,
- teacher leaders,
- pipeline,
- succession
Disciplines
Publication Date
March, 2009
Citation Information
Paul Hewitt, John Pijanowski and George Denny. "Why teacher leaders don’t want to be principals: Evidence from Arkansas" Education Working Paper Archive (2009) p. 1 - 37 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/pijanowski/8/