Learning School Principal Who Led The Research

Based on the analysis and summarize of the ideas and characteristics of learning schools, together with the works on the theory of School Leadership, the article discusses the lead of a learning school's principle, which is a new model of school organizations.The first part of the article, which is regarded as the background and basis of the article's subject, briefly reviews the beginning and development of learning schools, and discusses the ideas and characteristics of learning schools. The second part of the article is the core as well as the main contribution of the article. The meaning of the lead in learning schools is firstly discussed in this part. In this article, the leadership of learning schools refers to the one that synthesizes both the concepts of lead existing in Leader Communities and Constructivist Lead that emerge among the theories of development on School Leadership. However, the principal lead is regarded as one of manifold kinds of lead in learning schools. The principal should act as the designer of school organization, the servant of vision, and the teacher as the organization's member. He leads the school by setting up the shared vision of the learning school, building a learning culture, creating a learning environment, establishing an efficient learning system for the organization, and encouraging the organization's members to share decisions and keep on learning. The new roles and the leading that differs from what used to be require that the principals have new qualities, which is discussed in the article in accord with professional ethics, professional knowledge and professional abilities. According to the dilemma of the present principals' elude of how to set up the shared vision, the negative effects when carrying out the System of Overall Responsibility by Principal, and the defects of the principal management system, the third part of the article expounds that in order to transform into the principal lead of learning schools, it is necessary to integrate the forces from both the principal and the system, and offers some corresponding active tactics.