School Leaders

School Leaders.  For the purpose of this paper, the term school leader will be used to reference administrators (district level, school principals and vice-principals) in addition to school department heads and lead teachers in specific areas. According to Starratt (2005), school leaders are those people in positions of responsibility who “have to carry the burdens of being proactively responsible for changing those things over which they have some control in order to alleviate disadvantage and promote the deeply human fulfillment of young people” (p. 145).