The Role of Educational Leadership in Promoting Inclusive Student Management Practices

Abstract

Mechanisms of Educational Leadership in Promoting Inclusive Student Management Practices Educational leadership is an important driver for achieving educational equity and inclusive education. This paper systematically explores the differential application of educational leadership and its efficacy at different educational stages through multi-case tracing and mixed-method design. It is found that principals' cultural leadership contributes the most to the enhancement of special needs students' sense of identity, instructional leadership plays a key role in the implementation of personalized education, and structural leadership occupies an important position in the efficacy of resource transformation. By building a multi-party collaborative network, a personalized education system, and a resource support platform, educational leadership can effectively promote the academic progress and social acceptance of special needs students. After the implementation of the leadership program, the academic attainment rate of special needs students in Primary School S increased by 37%, and the social acceptance index increased by 0.82 standard deviations. The case study shows that appropriate leadership strategies need to be adopted at different educational stages, such as preschool education that emphasizes environmental creation, elementary education that emphasizes curricular adaptation, middle school education that focuses on peer relationship reconstruction, and high school education that needs to open up career transition pathways.