A Framework for Effective Leadership Practices and Skills for School Principals

This paper extends to inspire a shared vision of leadership at schools and identify the practices and components that describe effective leadership. Thisresearch also addresses to identify leadership components and their own interrelationships on leadership practices. This paper examines the currentstatus of school principals and grades the studied components and features in this study. This study was conducted through descriptive method and the sampling was done by simple random. Randomly- Cluster and stratifiedrelatively sampling, the effectiveness of seven identified components onleadership of elementary schools principals’ performance from teachers’ perspective. A framework is designed to increase the effective leadership roleof principals and school efficiency, develop students’ social abilities and promote the senior managers to apply the identified components in selectingprincipals. The paper reports the principals has the highest performance in responsibility and accountability of staff and the lowest performance in themethods of inspiration, rewarding and creating motivation among staff. The results show that a significant difference exists between these two of the mentioned variables of leadership features i.e. cohesion, correlation and solidary among these six components in the designed framework are a must in order to fulfill the leadership.