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Ganon-Shilon, Sherry; Schechter, Chen – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2021
This qualitative study explores how 60 Israeli high school principals vary in their perceptions and enactments of shared sense-making processes while engaging in strategic activities to gain teachers' support during a national reform implementation. Data analysis has yielded three major themes: (a) a common language; (b) a collaborative learning…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Learning Processes
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
Ganon-Shilon, Sherry; Schechter, Chen – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2019
In the face of the dynamic tension between internal goals and external reform demands, school principals' role has become increasingly more complex and their sense-making more crucial. Yet, research has paid little attention to the significant role principals perform as sense makers in local reform implementation processes. This study explores…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Leadership Role, Educational Change