ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors develop an understanding of the importance of Leadership for learning in the primary school setting. They learn about the internal and external factors that impact capacity for building Leadership. The authors create strategies and models to support children to also become leaders for learning during the primary years. Adults take on a variety of leadership roles, whether as a teacher in the classroom, organising the school tuckshop, Leadership in the parent and citizen organisations within the school, as part of the school board and many other possibilities. Likewise, primary school students also take on Leadership roles, whether as classroom leaders, school leaders, sports leaders. School Leadership ‘is about direction setting and inspiring others to make the journey to a new and improved state for the school, and management is concerned with efficiently operating in the current set of circumstances and planning in the shorter-term for the school’.
