This article presents descriptive and conceptual findings about shared governance leadership from the perspectives of shared governance principals. Data for the study were drawn from successful principals affiliated with the League of Professional Schools (Glickman, 1993). The study describes the professional and personal socialization factors that contributed to the development of principals’ perspectives on shared leadership and the strategies and purposes that fundamentally define such perspectives.
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