Guidelines for Developing Literacy Leadership for School Administrators

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Jiraporn Supising
Somkiet Boonrawd
Suriya Taweeboonyawat
Ponlawat Chaichana
Choocheep Puthaprasert
Sirimas Kosanpipat

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This article aimed to study guidelines for developing literacy leadership for school administrators. It is qualitative research using the concept of literacy leadership as a research framework. The research area is the Chiang Mai Secondary Educational Service Area Office. The multi-phrase study was divided into 3 phases as follows: 1) to investigate the current conditions for developing literacy leadership for school administrators; 2) to examine the desired conditions for developing literacy leadership for school administrators; and 3) to inquire into the feasibility guidelines for developing literacy leadership for school administrators. Key informants consisted of conducting an in-depth interview of fifteen informants selected by purposive sampling, school administrators who received awards for outstanding educational institutions in the management, Olympic Academic Best Practice, IQA awards, Royal School, Excellent Educational Institutions, the year 2021-2023. The instrument used for data collection was a semi-structured interview for an in-depth interview. The data were analyzed by content analysis and summarizing into issues.  The results of the guidelines in terms of the current conditions and the desired conditions led to the development of literacy leadership for school administrators, consisting of policy, administrators’ roles, professional development, collaboration, and improvement.

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