Sustainability of the School Leadership in the Digital Era Under the Shadow of Crisis

Abstract

Today, ‘innovative era' paradigm waves of 4th Industrial Revolution (4thIR) have deeply changed and prominently affected many lifestyles, organizational structures, and job profiles, including educational setting which cannot be considered independent from the environment, institutions, and their school leaders. In this digital era where the lifestyle has been reshaped, school systems and leadership should be redesigned expediently. This chapter aims to shed light on school leadership's unpredictability and uncertainty under the shadow of the Covid-19 crisis that will possibly overtake all parameters that were known before on the topic. In this paradigmatic change, school leaders' behaviors have been playing a pivotal role in school improvement, revealing the vision and mission of the school. However, Covid-19 pandemic has turned all the known facts about school and face-to-face education upside down. In this context, school leaders have had to take precautions setting directions and improving teaching and learning environment for sustainable educational development.