Abstract
The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship among principals’ flipping leadership, teachers’ professional learning community and teachers’ innovation in teaching in Taiwanese elementary schools. In order to evaluate these relationships, a questionnaire method and a literature review were used that inquired into principals’ flipping leadership, teachers’ professional learning community, and teachers’ innovation in teaching in Taiwanese elementary schools. In addition, we used a structural equation model in order to test the models and carried out an analysis targeting the relationship between these variables. The regular adaptive pointer clearly shows that the proposed model has a good fit with the questionnaire’s data. The results show that, through the mediating effect of teachers’ professional learning community, principals’ flipping leadership directly affects teachers’ innovation in teaching in Taiwanese elementary schools. The study suggests that the flipping leadership of the principal promotes, and improves the overall application of, teachers’ innovation in teaching.