Most scholars agree that an effective educational leadership model has a positive impact on student and teacher achievement, but what is the most effective educational leadership model in the field of education has been a topic of debate. However, to meet the needs of educational development, educational scholars have conducted a lot of researches on a variety of specific educational leadership models. The purpose of this paper is to find the most effective educational leadership model through the analysis of seven different leadership models such as managerial leadership model, instructional leadership model, distributed leadership model, transformational leadership model, moral leadership model, contingent leadership model and combined leadership strategy. It suggests that while each specific leadership trait has a beneficial effect on school achievement, it also has its disadvantages. The combination of each leadership model can constitute the most scientific and effective educational leadership model, which is the combined leadership strategy.

Meixue Gao. A Comparative Analysis of Educational Leadership Models: Toward an Integrated Approach. International Journal of New Developments in Education (2026), Vol. 8, Issue 2: 14-24. https://doi.org/10.25236/IJNDE.2026.080203.

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