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SYSTEMATIC REVIEW article
Front. Educ.
Sec. Leadership in Education
Volume 10 - 2025 |
doi: 10.3389/feduc.2025.1537055
Meta-Synthesis of School Leadership Competencies to Support Learner-Centered
Provisionally accepted
Jayson Richardson 1*
Sahar Khawaja 2- 1 William & Mary School of Education, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Kentucky, United States
- 2 University of Denver, Denver, Colorado, United States
This study analyzes the corpus of research on how K-12 school leaders foster deeper learning by creating learner-centered, personalized learning opportunities for students. We used the Leadership Competencies for Learner-Centered, Personalized Education developed by Jobs of the Future (2017) as our conceptual and analytical framework. 42 peer-reviewed empirical articles. This study focuses on how school leaders build systems and structures to support learning-centered, personalized experiences for the students they serve.
Keywords: Deeper learning, personalized learning, Student agency, Systematic review, Metasynthesis, Leadership competencies
Received: 29 Nov 2024; Accepted: 24 Jan 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Richardson and Khawaja. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Jayson Richardson, William & Mary School of Education, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, 23185, Kentucky, United States
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