System leadership in action: Co-designing approaches that empower principals as catalysts of reform.

Project leaders: Australian Secondary Principals’ Association (ASPA)

This research project will develop a structured, research-informed, and association-led process that reimagines leadership development as system learning.

Through a co-design approach, this research will work in partnership with principals, associations, and system leaders to generate practical, contextually grounded approaches to system leadership. By leveraging principals as catalysts of reform, the project seeks to strengthen their agency, deepen their role in shaping system priorities, and create the conditions for sustainable educational improvement.