Teacher Morale

A restructured school setting necessitates a major change in the principal's role. For example, the principal must not only espouse certain values, but practice them at the "in-use " level as well. This paper compares and contrasts the leadership styles of two principals who participated in the implementation of a restructuring effort, the Accelerated Schools Project. The study was set in a rural Louisiana school that served a high proportion of at-risk students. Data were gathered through informal interviews with and observations of 26 teachers and through indepth interviews with 6 teachers and the current principal. In 1991, the former principal and the teachers chose to implement the project with the support of the central-office administration. The second principal entered at the start of the project's second year. She recognized the importance of teacher inquiry for encouraging and developing innovation and truste