Cultivating Principal Leadership for Modernizing Schools: Connotation, Elements and Evaluation

School modernization is essentially a process of increasing modernity, which requires principals to play a nurturing role within the self-organizing system of the school. The principal leadership' essential factor of cultivating modern school cosist by three aspects: personal traits, influence, and the ability to continuously improve the organization. In terms of personal traits, principals need to possess modern qualities, advanced educational philosophies, and strong communication and crisis management skills. Influence includes the exemplary power of the principal, governance, school vision construction. The ability of continuously improving the organization is manifested as the ability to continuously coordinate and promote sustainable development. The evaluation of such leadership can adopt a key-projects approach, using the interaction between the principal's core functions and leadership elements as an evaluation framework, emphasizing feedback during the evaluation process to guide the development of principal leadership and school modernization.