58 Table 3.3 Illustration of Two Main Patterns of Leadership Practices using Quotes Codes Pattern 1: ‘Our’ Pattern 2: ‘Their’ Bottom-up “I ask teachers to organize school meetings on topics they want, to enhance shared responsibility” (SP4) “I expect all teachers to actively participate in the implementation process and the internal school coaches to check this. At the end of the year, I will discuss their work” (SP22) Involvement “I am present during meetings because I want to show we have a shared responsibility. I act a bit as a team member then” (SP16) “I have been one of the coaches” (SP3, 5, 7) “I am mainly not present during meetings. It is the process of the teachers and actually I am too busy” .. “I think I should be more present, but I don’t want to clear my agenda for this” (SP9) Motivation “I ask questions and motivate teachers to experiment by giving examples” (SP16) “For teachers to work with the innovation, they need enthusiasm. I try to provide that by giving a plea, but only at the beginning of the school year (SP12) Progress “I am part of the innovation team; I work together with the coaches, and I ask how it is going and/or steer a bit when necessary” (SP16) “I am not totally up to date about how the process of implementation is going. I hear this from the coaches, who are mainly leading this” (SP9) Note. Indicators that helped us to understand the differences between the patterns are presented in bold as mentioned in the Methods. 3.4.2.1. Leadership pattern ‘Our’ The first leadership pattern is characterized by school principals showing more involved leadership practices (see Table 3.3). These school principals are characterized by their willingness to share the responsibility for implementation of the program. Furthermore, they are actively involved in meetings and stimulate teachers to take responsibility, so the processes become shared, with teachers able to determine their own share. Therefore, we labelled this as leadership pattern ‘Our’. A notable finding regarding the ‘Our’ pattern was that 2 out of the 13 school principals differed from the other 11 in their leadership practices in one important aspect. These school principals stressed that innovation is ‘collaboratively owned’ by teachers and the school principal, which fitted with the Our-pattern. However, they also mentioned that they were doing all the work and were too deeply involved. These school principals evaluated their own practices as too involved but state that they aim to share the responsibility more in the future. As an illustration, one school principal said:
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