Leadership

The sphere of Leadership in this research had four different foci, including:

• Leadership of the individual schools that make up the Virtual Interenational School
• Leadership of the Virtual International School
• Leadership of projects or courses in the Virtual International School
• Leadership from students in the Virtual International School

These different forms of leadership led to the development of a complex multi-level leadership model where a variety of management structures and processes needed to be understood, explored and created. The relationship between these levels of leadership is unclear and requires further research. However, what is clear is that all the other themes and elements in the new thematic model of pedagogic shift, require effective leadership across these different levels, without which pedagogic shift will be slow and lack uniformity across the Virtual International School.