Spirituality and the Principalship: Leadership for the New Millennium, 3(11)

Abstract

A large number of aspiring principals coming out of our leadership preparation programs each year, possessing skills in school law, school finance, organization, planning, evaluation, and technology, are at best informed educational managers. Professors in principal preparation programs find leadership more subjective than previously thought, more difficult to define, and virtually impossible to measure objectively. This article reviews the leadership literature and suggests that effective leadership is much more that a set of skills or competencies, and is related to a leader's character, beliefs, morals, values, emotions, and spirit. To lead our schools and their communities into the new millennium, principals must strengthen the correlation between organizational success and their spiritual development.