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Role of Middle Leaders
Levels of leadership
As an edupreneur and a middle leader, it is crucial to push forward the school and teachers
to carry out changes. He/she needs to expand the capacity, to connect their schools’ vision and
mission to their team, and to actualise the vision. According to Drysdale and Gurr (2011;
Gurr 2015; Gurr and Drysdale 2013), leadership in successful schools engages three-dimension
or levels: Teaching & Learning (instruction), School Capacity (organisation), and
External Contextual (system). The below table summarises the nature and scope of behaviours
that the middle leaders engage—
Level Management Leadership
Level 1 Determining the scheme of work Co-constructing curriculum and
Teaching & Learning Communicating procedures instructional resources
(instruction) Scaling-up new practices
Scheduling teaching
Mentoring new staff
Completing documentation Identifying improvement areas
Homework inspection
Level 2 Providing PD opportunity Feedback & coaching
School Capacity Implementing accountability Networking
(organisation) measures
Strategic resourcing
Completing appraisal procedures
Teacher recruitment
Team-building
Schoolwide planning
Selling school mission
Re-designing team structures and
responsibilities
Level 3 Reporting compliance & Interpreting policies to leaders and
External Contextual accountability teachers
(system)
Allocation of government Recommending responses to
resources policy change
Advocating for policy change
(Bryant 2019)
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