Leadership, Leading, and Impacts
摘要
In Meetings 4–6, the storytellers continue to share their stories of the challenging events they have encountered, highlighting the impacts of leadership expectations, decisions, and support, including the question of reasonableness. In this chapter, they share stories of leadership support and the lack thereof, a lack of consistency in leadership decisions, and the reasonableness of decisions made. The issues of inequality and sexism towards teachers are shared in the meetings and questioned by our storytellers. The impacts of continual changes, changes that not supported by leadership communication, and the impacts on teachers in terms of time and workload, and the subsequent impact on teachers’ sense of self, self-agency, and power (Kelchtermans. Teaching and Teacher Education, 21, 995–1006, 2005; Kelchtermans. Advances in Research on Teaching, 19, 379–401, 2013; Nias. Cambridge Journal of Education, 26(3), 293–306, 1996) are shared. Teachers’ stories continue to shed light on schools—school cultures, practices, expectations, and leadership.