Instructional Leadership Models in Modern Schools

The tool developed by Hallinger (PIMRS) has been widely used to identify the level of involvement of a school principal and his/her management team in instructional leadership. PIMRS unfolds the domains which principals delegate to their team, domains that are of a priority for the leadership team when drawing up the school’s instructional leadership profile. However, no studies have been conducted aimed at identifying instructional leadership models based on the profiles obtained by applying PIMRS. Cluster analysis (Ward’s method) was carried out to identify the instructional leadership patterns of 120 schools in one of the megacities of Russia. Four instructional leadership models were identified, and recommendations were provided.