Abstract
School has always been a complex organization. The current chapter claims, however, that today’s school leaders face particularly complex difficulties and high expectations. Among other challenges, they operate in an exigent outcome-based accountability environment and are required to provide students with 21st-century skills. When school leadership becomes more and more complicated, a systems view is necessary. To meet this need, our book will present the Holistic School Leadership approach, whereby educational leaders lead schools through the systems-thinking framework.
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Shaked, H., Schechter, C. (2017). The Need for Holistic School Leadership . In: Systems Thinking for School Leaders. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53571-5_1
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