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Abstract：
Coherent leadership refers to the ability of leaders to shape a culture of cooperation and trust. By integrating effective interpersonal communication and dialogue, leaders unite school members’ centripetal force, encourage them to conduct deep learning for the promotion of the organization’s change and development, and make them responsible for their performance in order to achieve the organization’s effectiveness and common goals. Principals’ coherent leadership is an important research topic for educational leadership. This study selected 14 public elementary school principals in Taiwan and conducted in-depth interviews to collect data. The study found that: (1) the principals adopt a time-based and step-by-step approach to shape and set the direction, value identity, and characteristics of their schools’ development; (2) the principals use positively motivated leadership to shape a culture of teachers’ cooperation and collective wisdom; (3) the principals guide the teachers to take the initiative at selflearning and provide students with a diverse learning environment; and (4) it is difficult to get instant results of education performance through principals’ requirements of the executive team’s performance and teaching performance that is focused on systematic instruction.
Keywords： educational leadership, principalship, principals’ coherent leadership
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