Teachers' perceptions of leadership behaviors of teaching principals and non-teaching principals in Lutheran high schools in America

Teaching principals continue to exist in American K-12 public and non-public schools, and the country's 126 Lutheran high schools include both teaching principals and non-teaching principals. Two groups of randomly selected teachers representing these two types of Lutheran high schools responded to A Survey of Supervisory Behaviors and the results were compared to answer the research question: Do teaching principals in Lutheran high schools exhibit significantly different leadership behavior from the perception of their teaching colleagues compared to those Lutheran high school principals who do not have teaching responsibilities? Teachers of teaching principals responded significantly more positively in three of the five domains of the survey: human relations, instructional leadership, and conflict behaviors. A significant difference does not exist between the two groups of teachers in how they perceive their teaching and non-teaching principals' trust/decision making behaviors and control behaviors. The results reject the study's null hypothesis: Teaching principals in Lutheran high schools do not exhibit significantly different leadership behavior from the perception of their teaching colleagues compared to those Lutheran high school principals who do not have teaching responsibilities.