RT journal article T1 Successful scholar leadership at challenging secondary schools: An inclusive perspective A1 Morales Ocaña, Amelia A1 Higueras-Rodríguez, Lina A1 Martín-Romera, Ana A1 Domingo-Segovia, Jesús A2 Didáctica K1 Leadership K1 School Improvement K1 Inclusion K1 Disadvantaged Context AB This article shows the results of a multi-case study of two high schools located in the province of Granada. Theschools selected have similar characteristics. They are among the schools situated in disadvantaged socio-economiccontexts; they are catalogued by the Territorial Educational Delegation as schools of “preferential attention,” and inrecent years they have shown gradual improvement in the students’ academic results, but without reaching the expectedlevel. The official reports show that they have positive results in terms of school atmosphere and reducing school failureand attrition. The article documents how the educational leadership of the leadership team influences this improvement.The leadership in these cases combines many of the successful leadership conditions documented internationally.However, it emphasizes aspects of distributed and resilient educational leadership in order to promote qualitativeimprovements in challenging contexts. This leadership must be developed in the heart of broad professional communities,with the participation of the community, and focused on improving the academic results of the school and the students. PB Common Ground Research Networks SN 2327-0020 YR 2017 FD 2017 LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/38891 UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/38891 LA eng DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz RD 21-sep-2026