Publications

Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals

  1. Shaked, H. (2026). Principals’ perspectives on the role of instructional leadership in their well-being. Leadership and Policy in Schools. pdf
  2. Shaked, H., Karaköse, T., Tülübaş, T., Kaptan, O., & Tsemeach, S. (2026). The adaptive evolution of instructional leadership: A science mapping analysis of research on educational leadership and student learning outcomes. Educational Management, Administration & Leadership. pdf
  3. Shaked, H. (2026). School leadership in Israel amid COVID-19: A systematic review. Educational Management, Administration & Leadership. pdf
  4. Shaked, H. (2026). When improving teaching fulfills teachers’ higher-order needs: A Maslowian view of instructional leadership. Leadership and Policy in Schools. pdf
  5. Shaked, H., & Hallinger, P. (2026). Instructional leadership in a 21st century global context: A conceptual review. International Journal of Leadership in Education. pdf
  6. Shaked, H. (2026). Symbolic instructional leadership. Educational Management, Administration & Leadership. pdf
  7. Nikritin, D., Shaked, H., Avidov-Ungar, O., Livneh, I., & Grinshtain, Y. (2026). The goals of the school-based experience (practicum) in pre-service teacher education: A qualitative study of Israeli mentor teachers’ perceptions. Frontiers in Education, 11, 1747387. pdf
  8. Shaked, H. (2026). Instructional leadership clarity: How principals make instructional leadership intelligible and predictable for teachers. Journal of Educational Change, 27, 423–438. pdf
  9. Shaked, H., & Gümüş, S. (2026). How school principals manage teaching to support equity in learning: Re-thinking instructional leadership with a social justice lens. Cambridge Journal of Education, 56(4), 559–578. pdf
  10. Shaked, H. (2026). The unique role of school middle leaders in enacting social justice leadership. Educational Management, Administration & Leadership, 54(6), 2180–2197. pdf
  11. Shaked, H. (2026). Protecting instructional time: Insights from Israeli principals. Educational Management, Administration & Leadership, 54(6), 2018–2037. pdf
  12. Shaked, H. (2026). Examining shifts in educational leadership students’ perceptions of the inhibitors to instructional leadership: Insights from Israel. Journal of Educational Administration and History, 58(3), 421–437. pdf
  13. Shaked, H. (2026). How Israeli principals foster social justice among teachers. Leadership and Policy in Schools, 25(4), 884–898. pdf
  14. Shaked, H. (2026). Defining the responsibilities of principals in promoting equity: Insights from the Israeli school system. Educational Management, Administration & Leadership, 54(3), 866–884. pdf
  15. Shaked, H. (2026). How social justice leadership complements instructional leadership. Leadership and Policy in Schools, 25(2), 224–239. pdf
  16. Shaked, H. (2025). How staff dynamics can constrain instructional leadership. Journal of Educational Administration and History. pdf
  17. Shaked, H. (2025). The role of visibility in instructional leadership: Insights from Israeli principals. International Journal of Leadership in Education. pdf
  18. Shaked, H. (2025). How principals’ instructional leadership impacts schools’ middle leadership. Educational Management, Administration & Leadership, 53(5), 977–990. pdf
  19. Shaked, H. (2024). Integrating instructional leadership with social justice leadership: Insights from Israel’s principals. Educational Administration Quarterly, 60(4), 452–492. pdf
  20. Shaked, H. (2024). Enabling factors of instructional leadership in subject coordinators. Journal of Educational Administration, 62(2), 239–254. pdf
  21. Grinshtain, Y., Avidov-Ungar, O., Livneh, I., Shaked, H., & Nikritin, D. (2024). From traditional to clinical approach toward continuing professional development: Academia-field partnership in teacher education. European Journal of Education, 59(2), e12628. pdf
  22. Shaked, H. (2023). Instructional leadership in school middle leaders. International Journal of Educational Management, 37(6/7), 1288–1302. pdf
  23. Avidov-Ungar, O., Grinshtain, Y., Livneh, I., Shaked, H., & Nikritin, D. (2023). A comparative view of diverse models of field academia partnerships in teacher education programs: Perspectives of agents from the academia and the field. Dapim, 80, 75–97.  (Hebrew).
  24. Shaked, H. (2025). How instructional leaders promote social justice. Educational Management, Administration & Leadership, 53(2), 279–297. pdf
  25. Shaked, H., & Benoliel, P. S. (2024). Instructional boundary management during COVID-19. Educational Management, Administration & Leadership, 52(3), 593–609. pdf
  26. Shaked, H. (2024). Instructional leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic: The case of Israel. Educational Management, Administration & Leadership, 52(3), 576–592. pdf
  27. Shaked, H. (2024). Expanding instructional leadership: How elementary school principals in Israel ensure the right teachers are in the right places. Leadership and Policy in Schools, 23(1), 29–41. pdf
  28. Shaked, H. (2024). Relationship-based instructional leadership. International Journal of Leadership in Education, 27(5), 1052–1069. pdf
  29. Grinshtain, Y., Avidov-Ungar, O., Shaked, H., Livneh, I., & Nikritin, D. (2023). ‘Not fully coordinated’: The loosely coupled paradigm as a framework for understanding relationships of educators in teacher education programmes. Journal of Education for Teaching, 50(4), 707–724. pdf
  30. Shaked, H. (2023). How clan culture impairs functions of instructional leadership: The case of Israel. Leadership and Policy in Schools, 22(3), 585–599. pdf
  31. Shaked, H. (2023). Perceptions of Israeli school principals regarding the knowledge needed for instructional leadership. Educational Management, Administration & Leadership, 51(3), 655–672. pdf
  32. Shaked, H. (2023). How organizational management supports instructional leadership. Journal of Educational Administration, 61(1), 60–77. pdf
  33. Shaked, H. (2022). How instructional leaders promote parental involvement: The Israeli case. International Journal of Educational Management, 36(7), 1193–1205. pdf
  34. Shaked, H. (2022). Israeli principals’ considerations regarding the actions they take to prevent student absenteeism. Leadership and Policy in Schools, 21(4), 891–900. pdf
  35. Ganon-Shilon, S., Shaked, H., & Schechter, C. (2022). Principals’ voices pertaining to shared sense-making processes within a generally-outlined pedagogical reform implementation. International Journal of Leadership in Education, 25(6), 941–965. pdf
  36. Shaked, H. (2022). Role identity of instructional leaders. Leadership and Policy in Schools, 21(2), 398–411. pdf
  37. Shaked, H. (2022). The contribution of case-based learning to adopting a multidimensional view in educational leadership students. International Journal of Educational Management, 36(2), 194–205. pdf
  38. Nadav, N., Benoliel, P., Shaked, H., & Schechter, C. (2021). Exploring school principals’ systems thinking activities. Leadership and Policy in Schools, 20(4), 579–598. pdf
  39. Shaked, H. (2021). Instructional leadership in higher education: The case of Israel. Higher Education Quarterly, 75(2), 212–226. pdf
  40. Shaked, H. (2021). Between center and periphery: Instructional leadership in Israeli rural schools. International Journal of Educational Management, 35(7), 1361–1374. pdf
  41. Shaked, H., Benoliel, P., & Hallinger, P. (2021). How national context indirectly influences instructional leadership implementation: The case of Israel. Educational Administration Quarterly, 57(3), 437–469. pdf
  42. Shaked, H. (2020). A paradoxical approach to instructional leadership. International Journal of Educational Management, 34(10), 1637–1646. pdf
  43. Shaked, H., & Schechter, C. (2021). Systems thinking for excellence and equity (Introduction to a special issue). Journal of Educational Administration, 59(1), 1–4. pdf
  44. Benoliel, P., Shaked, H., Nadav, N., & Schechter, C. (2021). Principals’ systems thinking attribute: Exploring a principal-middle-leader relational demography perspective. Journal of Educational Administration, 59(1), 22–42. pdf
  45. Shaked, H., & Schechter, C. (2020). Systems thinking leadership: New explorations for school improvement. Management in Education, 34(3), 107–114. pdf
  46. Shaked, H. (2020). Social justice leadership, instructional leadership, and the goals of schooling. International Journal of Educational Management, 34(1), 81–95. pdf
  47. Shaked, H., & Benoliel, P. (2020). Instructional boundary management: The complementarity of instructional leadership and boundary management. Educational Management, Administration & Leadership, 48(5), 821–839. pdf
  48. Shaked, H. (2020). Boundaries of Israeli assistant principals’ instructional leadership. Leadership and Policy in Schools, 19(3), 497–511. pdf
  49. Shaked, H. (2019). Ensuring teachers’ job suitability: A missing component of instructional leadership. Journal of School Leadership, 29(5), 427–447. pdf
  50. Shaked, H. (2019). Perceptual inhibitors of instructional leadership in Israeli principals. School Leadership & Management, 39(5), 519–536. pdf
  51. Shaked, H. (2019). School leaders’ contribution to social justice: A review. International Journal of Educational Reform, 28(3), 303–316. pdf
  52. Shaked, H., Gross, Z., & Glanz, J. (2019). Between Venus and Mars: Sources of gender differences in instructional leadership. Educational Management, Administration & Leadership, 47(2), 291–309. pdf
  53. Benoliel, P., Shaked, H., Nadav, N., & Schechter, C. (2019). School principals’ systems thinking: Antecedents and consequences. Journal of Educational Administration, 57(2), 167–184. pdf
  54. Shaked, H. (2018). Why principals often give overly high ratings on teacher evaluations. Studies in Educational Evaluation, 59, 150–157. pdf
  55. Shaked, H. (2018). Why principals sidestep instructional leadership: The disregarded question of schools’ primary objective. Journal of School Leadership, 28(4), 517–538. pdf
  56. Shaked, H., Gross, Z., & Glanz, J. (2018). Gender differences in instructional leadership: How male and female principals perform their instructional leadership roles in Israel. School Leadership & Management, 38(4), 417–434. pdf
  57. Shaked, H., & Schechter, C. (2019). School middle leaders’ sense-making of a generally-outlined education reform. Leadership and Policy in Schools, 18(3), 412–432. pdf
  58. Shaked, H., & Schechter, C. (2019). Exploring systems thinking in school principals’ decision-making. International Journal of Leadership in Education, 22(5), 573–596. pdf
  59. Shaked, H., & Schechter, C. (2019). Systems thinking for principals of learning-focused schools. Journal of School Administration, Research and Development, 4(1), 18–23. pdf
  60. Shaked, H., & Schechter, C. (2018). Systems thinking among enrollees in a principal preparation program. Journal of Research on Leadership Education, 13(3), 259–282. pdf
  61. Shaked, H., Schechter, C., & Michalsky, T. (2018). Collaborative learning from personal cases in a principal preparation programme. International Journal of Leadership in Education, 21(4), 479–490. pdf
  62. Shaked, H., & Schechter, C. (2018). Holistic school leadership: Development of systems thinking in school leaders. Teachers College Record, 120(2), 1–40. pdf
  63. Schechter, C., Shaked, H., Ganon, S., & Goldratt, M. (2018). Leadership metaphors: Principals’ sense-making of a national reform. Leadership and Policy in Schools, 17(1), 1–26. pdf
  64. Glanz, J., Shaked, H., Rabinowitz, C., Shenhav, S., & Zaretsky, R. (2017). Instructional leadership practices among principals in Israeli and US Jewish schools. International Journal of Educational Reform, 26(2), 132–153. pdf
  65. Shaked, H., & Schechter, C. (2017). Integrating learning from problems and learning from success in a principal preparation program. Planning and Changing, 48(1/2), 86–105. pdf
  66. Shaked, H., & Schechter, C. (2017). Systems thinking among school middle leaders. Educational Management, Administration & Leadership, 45(4), 699–718. pdf
  67. Schechter, C., & Shaked, H. (2017). Leaving fingerprints: Principals’ considerations while implementing education reforms. Journal of Educational Administration, 55(3), 242–260. pdf
  68. Shaked, H., & Schechter, C. (2017). School principals as mediating agents in education reforms. School Leadership & Management, 37(1–2), 19–37. pdf
  69. Shaked, H., & Schechter, C. (2016). Holistic school leadership: Systems thinking as an instructional leadership enabler. NASSP Bulletin, 100(4), 177–202. pdf
  70. Shaked, H., & Schechter, C. (2016). Sources of systems thinking in school leadership. Journal of School Leadership, 26(3), 468–494. pdf
  71. Shaked, H. (2016). Parental participation fees in school expenses in Israel. International Journal of Educational Management, 30(1), 63–75. pdf
  72. Shaked, H. (2014). Israel’s principal preparation policy. World Journal of Education, 4(6), 78–89. pdf
  73. Shaked, H. (2014). Education Cities. International Journal of Educational Reform, 23(2), 154–167. pdf
  74. Shaked, H. (2014). Rehabilitative learning: Education during psychiatric hospitalization. International Journal of Special Education, 29(1), 87–97. pdf
  75. Shaked, H. (2014). Israel’s official policy with regard to teaching evolution in public schools. International Journal of Jewish Education Research, 7, 29–47. pdf
  76. Shaked, H., & Schechter, C. (2014). Systems school leadership: Exploring an emerging construct. Journal of Educational Administration, 52(6), 792–811. pdf
  77. Shaked, H., & Schechter, C. (2013). Seeing wholes: The concept of systems thinking and its implementation in school leadership. International Review of Education, 59(6), 771–791. pdf

Book Chapters

  1. Shaked, H. (In press). Social justice as an overarching framework for school leadership: An illustration with instructional leadership. In Z. Gross, P. Benoliel, A. Bamberger, & O. Spektor-Levy (Eds.), Multiculturalism, diversity, and inclusion: Widening access and participation in education. Emerald.
  2. Shaked, H. (2025). Leading change through instructional leadership. In J. Glanz (Ed.), Leading change through transformational school leadership (pp. 75–88). Emerald.
  3. Shaked, H. (2024). Advancing wellbeing in higher education through instructional leadership. In W. Walker & B. Kutsyuruba (Eds.), The Emerald handbook of wellbeing in higher education: Global perspectives on students, faculty, leaders, and institutions (pp. 225–238). Emerald. pdf
  4. Shaked, H. (2023). Who wants to be a principal: Recruiting instructional leaders. In M. Reichel & C. Rabinowitz (Eds.),  Principal recruitment and retention: Best practices for meeting the challenges today (pp. 85–96). Rowman & Littlefield.
  5. Shaked, H. (2021). Instructional leadership in times of crises and the goal of schooling. In J. Glanz (Ed.), Crisis and pandemic leadership: Implications for meeting the needs of students, teachers, and parents (pp. 71–82). Rowman & Littlefield.
  6. Schechter, C., & Shaked, H. (2019). Systems thinking in school organizations. In M. Connolly, D. Eddy Spicer, C. James, & S. Kruse (Eds.), The Sage handbook of school organization (pp. 249–266). Sage.
  7. Shaked, H., Benoliel, P., Nadav, N., & Schechter, C. (2018). Principals’ systems thinking: The meaning and measure of a leadership construct. In H. Shaked, C. Schechter, & A. J. Daly (Eds.), Leading holistically: How schools, districts, and states improve systemically (pp. 54–73). Routledge.
  8. Shaked, H., Schechter, C., & Daly, A. J. (2018). The systems language. In H. Shaked, C. Schechter, & A. J. Daly (Eds.), Leading holistically: How schools, districts, and states improve systemically (pp. xviii–xxiii). Routledge.
  9. Frank, M., Shaked, H., & Kordova, S. (2016). Systems thinking: Definitions, perspectives and dimensions. In M. Frank, H. Shaked, & S. Kordova (Eds.), Systems thinking: Foundation, uses and challenges (pp. xiii–xix). Nova Science Publishers.
  10. Shaked, H., & Schechter, C. (2016). Systems thinking in a special school: A case study. In M. Frank, H. Shaked, & S. Kordova (Eds.), Systems thinking: Foundation, uses and challenges (pp. 261–272). Nova Science Publishers.