providing a model for promotion of the vice-principals’ role to educational leadership in primary schools of mazandaran province

Purpose: this study is to provide a model that will promote the role of primary school vice-principals in educational leadership so that their viceprincipals move towards the tasks related to education. methodology: the sample size consisted of 610 principals, vice-principals and teachers, determined by a two-step classification procedure. in this research, mazandaran province was divided into three eastern, central and western parts; some cities were selected from each part and then these cities were divided into two or three sections. a number of schools were randomly selected in each section and all principals, vice-principals and teachers were selected as the sample. a two-part questionnaire was used to collect information from vice-principals’ duties. the first part consists of closed questions in two existing and ideal conditions, and the second part includes open questions. findings: friedman's ranking and analysis, categorization and quantification of open questions revealed the following components for the vice-principals’ educational leadership model: 1- creating awareness among principals, vice-principals and teachers about the vice-principals’ duties 2-preparation of tasks description with the focus of educational affairs and the requirement for its implementation 3-procurement of short-term university courses and vice-principals’ pre-office training 4- informing vice-principals about the educational regulations at the national and regional levels 5-encourage the principals and vice-principals to lead a team and provide the requirement trainings in this field 6-considering an individual to assist the vice-principals of the school 7-improving the vice-principals’ livelihoods . discussion: applying this model and its components can enhance the vice-principals’ performance and role to a higher level and ultimately improve the performance of schools and the iranian educational system.