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Instructional Leadership: A Quick Review

Instructional leadership, as Debevoise (1984) defined, encompasses those actions that a principal takes, or delegates to others, to promote growth in student learning. This has been a dynamic and ever-developing area in the field of education, with many trends and issues emerging through time. In this review, the researcher chose the following three journal articles on Instructional Leadership dealing with three different aspects in the academe, namely: Teachers’ Organizational Commitment, Management of the Instructional Program, as well as Coaching Protocols for Instructional Leadership. The first article, entitled “Relationship between the Instructional Leadership Behaviors of High School Principals and Teachers’ Organizational Commitment” by Erdogan and Sarikaya (2016) explores the relationship between the instructional leadership behaviors of high school principals and teachers’ perceptions of organizational commitment and identifies the extent to which instructional leadership b...