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Leadership Metaphors: School Principals' Sense-Making of a National Reform
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Schechter, Chen; Shaked, Haim; Ganon-Shilon, Sherry; Goldratt, Miri – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2018
During reforms, principals often experience ambiguity, contradicting demands, and lack of information. As critical change agents and system players, principals interpret reform demands and translate them into school practices through a process of sense-making. The current qualitative research explored 59 elementary school principals' sense-making…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Educational Change, Change Agents
Making Sense While Steering through the Fog: Principals' Metaphors within a National Reform Implementation
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Ganon-Shilon, Sherry; Schechter, Chen – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2017
Principals' implementation of national reforms in the educational arena resembles a wild ride on a roller coaster as they face with contradicting demands, ongoing confusion and ambiguity. As critical change agents, principals interpret and translate reform demands into local practices through a process of sense-making. This current qualitative…
Descriptors: Principals, High Schools, Transformational Leadership, Figurative Language