“…Leadership has received extensive attention as an essential ingredient in efforts to improve schools, with a growing consensus that improving the training of principals is worthwhile (Grissom et al, 2021). Studies on leadership training and its effects have identified a number of general principles that may underpin effective leadership training programmes (Clarke & Dempster, 2020;Darling-Hammond, LaPoint, & Meyerson, 2007;Dempster, Lovette, & Fluckinger, 2011;Hallinger, 2018;Huber, 2013;Leithwood & Steinbach, 1992;Pont, Nusche, & Moorman, 2008) A number of studies have illustrated the difficulty of combining theoretical and practical knowledge, emphasising the problem of connecting knowledge from educational practice with experience from leadership practice (Clarke & Dempster, 2020;Forssten Seiser & Söderström, 2021;Grootenboer & Hardy, 2015). A study of learning among principals in the Swedish National Principal Training Programme showed processes of continuous learning stretching between the training programme and the workplace (Jerdborg, 2021).…”