My overriding question is how does the presence of a bully principal affects the bullying behavior of students? But I must start at the beginning: What does the literature say? 

In what ways do social-emotional factors affect the success of a student? How many of those factors are measured in School Climate assessments? What is the difference between School Culture and School Climate and how can “culture” be measured? How much of bullying behavior can be traced back to Social-Ecological factors?

 The first thing to do is to begin defining the constructs in this project. This is where I will begin:

Bullying will be defined by the work of Olweus…
Bullying from a social-ecological perspective: See Espelage & Swearer (2004) Bullying in American Schools: A Social-Ecological Perspective on Prevention and Intervention Social-Emotional: Goleman (1995)
Social-Ecological: Espelage Swearer (2004)
School Climate: Cohen Fege Pickeral (2009) Hoy Sabo (1998)
School Culture: Hoy Sabo (1998)

 Notes from Cohen Fege Pickeral (2009) who quoted from the National School Climate Center website:

(school climate) refers to the quality and character of school life. It is based on patterns of school life experiences and reflects norms, goals, values, interpersonal relationships, teaching, learning, leadership practices, and organizational structures.

 2010 (Cohen on school climate) is better because it mentions school personnel’s experience of school life: Took out leadership practices.

 (school climate) refers to the quality and character of school life. School climate is based on patterns of students', parents' and school personnel's experience of school life and reflects norms, goals, values, interpersonal relationships, teaching and learning practices, and organizational structures.

Cohen, J., Fege, A., & Pickeral, T. (2009). Measuring and improving school climate: A strategy that
       recognizes, honors and promotes social, emotional and civic learning. Teachers College Record.          Retrieved fromhttp://www.tcrecord.org/Content.asp?ContentId=15698

Espelage, D. L., & Swearer, S. M. (Eds.). (2004). Bullying in American schools: A social-ecological
       perspective on prevention and intervention. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
     
Goleman, D. (1995). Emotional Intelligence. New York, NY: Bantam Books. Hoy, W. K., & Sabo,
      D. J. (1998). Quality middle schools: Open and healthy. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press, Inc.

Olweus, D. (1995). Bullying or peer abuse at school: Facts and intervention. Current Directions in 
      Psychological Science, 4(6), 196-200.