Cover ; Editorial advisory board ; Supporting the development and professional growth of middle space educational leaders through mentoring ; Mentoring aspiring racialized leaders ; The relevance and promise of relational mentoring for school leadership: a conversation ; The politics of coaching assistant principals: exploring principal control ; Mentoring and induction for new assistant principals: the Kansas Educational Leadership Institute ; Striving for a way out from a rock and a hard place ; Implications of a shadowing/mentoring programme for aspiring principals