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Moos, Lejf – School Leadership & Management, 2011
There is no shared understanding of what school leaders are expected to do. Schools have many external as well as internal stakeholders and each of them has different expectations as to leadership practice. Thus school leadership is a "fluid signifier". This article first outlines external expectations that school leaders are faced with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Leadership, Work Environment, Job Performance
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Rhodes, Christopher; Brundrett, Mark – Professional Development in Education, 2009
This article reports on outcomes from a study funded by the National College for School Leadership designed to explore the factors that assist in the leadership development of teachers at a number of stages of their career development. More specifically, the study sought to identify issues associated with leadership talent identification,…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Talent Identification, Foreign Countries, Instructional Leadership
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Starr, Karen; White, Simone – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 2008
This article explores the responses of school principals of small rural schools in Victoria, Australia to leadership challenges they identify as characteristic of these contexts. The research is an exercise in grounded theory building, with the focus on the principalship as it is enacted in small rural settings. The article also seeks to trace the…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Rural Schools, Foreign Countries, Principals
McClure, Charles R.; And Others – 1991
This report presents a summary of activities, findings, and recommendations from Phase I of a project to improve the effectiveness of academic health science libraries and their provision of information services. The objectives for Phase I of the project are given: (1) to identify academic health science library requirements in the areas of…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Data Collection, Data Interpretation, Databases
Council Bluffs Community School District, IA. – 1987
This summary outline presents performance evaluation procedures of the 1986-87 administrator accountability plan adopted by the Council Bluffs Community Schools, Iowa. Procedures ensure that a cooperative evaluation plan is established, there is continuity between evaluation cycles, guidance and assistance are provided, and due process is…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrator Evaluation, Administrator Responsibility, Board of Education Policy
Boyd, Barry L. – 2003
Using the Delphi technique, a nationwide panel of experts identified 33 competencies that volunteer administrators (VAs) will need during the next decade and categorized them into these five constructs: organizational leadership; systems leadership; organizational culture; personal skills; and management skills. Twelve barriers to acquiring the…
Descriptors: Administrator Evaluation, Administrator Qualifications, Administrators, Competence