Design/methodology/approach– A qualitative case study model was used to explore the reflective
blog contributions of prospective school administrators to discover patterns in the blogging data by
grounding the study in an AI theoretical research perspective. A bounded case study delimited the scope
of the study to participants who were: masters or doctoral students in a school administration preparation
program at a large Midwestern United States research extensive university; and enrolled in four graduate
administrative preparation classes taught using reflective blogging over three instructional quartershighlighting and identifying their inherent leadership strengths and successful leadership experiences.