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Patrick, Susan Kemper; Rogers, Laura K.; Goldring, Ellen; Neumerski, Christine M.; Robinson, Viviane – Journal of Educational Administration, 2021
Purpose: Leadership coaching is an increasingly popular development tool for school principals. However, specific coaching behaviors are rarely conceptualized or examined in prior research. This study presents a coaching behavior framework and then analyzes actual coaching conversations between principals and coaches to illustrate how specific…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Coaching (Performance), Principals, Faculty Development
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Huang, Tiedan; Hochbein, Craig; Simons, Jordan – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2020
While the significance of principals' roles is widely recognized, and the impactful behaviors of principals are empirically delineated, little is known about whether principals spend time in an impactful way, whether principals' time use varies across different school contexts, or whether principals' time use is related to critical school…
Descriptors: Principals, Time Management, Educational Environment, Academic Achievement
Rajbhandari, Mani Man Singh; Loock, Coert; Du Plessis, Pierre; Rajbhandari, Smriti – Online Submission, 2014
In educational settings, leadership flexibility and mobility is essential factor for leadership readiness. This incorporates both factors concerning the situational needs and followership situational readiness. Leadership in education require multi facet dimensional approaches that enables the educational leaders to fill in the gaps and reduces…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Readiness, Competence, Leadership Qualities
McWilliams, Ellen K. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Managing disruptive behaviors in schools is a high-ranking concern in communities across the country (Rose & Gallup, 2006). Unfortunately, the practice of instituting tougher and more severe consequences for increased discipline problems has not resulted in a decrease of disruptive behavior (Lewis & Garrison-Harrell, 1999; Safran &…
Descriptors: Discipline Problems, Student Behavior, Discipline, Attendance Patterns
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Goldring, Ellen; Porter, Andrew; Murphy, Joseph; Elliott, Stephen N.; Cravens, Xiu – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2009
Effective school leadership is key to students' academic success. But the development of effective school leadership has been seriously hampered by the lack of technically sound tools to assess and monitor leaders' performance. This article presents the research base and conceptual framework for a leadership assessment instrument under…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Principals, Administrator Evaluation, Academic Achievement
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Laursen, Jannie – Reclaiming Children and Youth, 2009
A school principal at Oak Grove-Bellemeade Elementary School in Richmond, Virginia, describes the application of the Clifton Youth StrengthsExplorer assessment developed by the Gallup organization. A fifth-grade girl who was in frequent conflict with peers and teachers was helped to identify her strengths and develop more effective emotional and…
Descriptors: Clubs, Coping, Grade 5, Principals
Keefe, James W. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2007
A personalized school is one in which each individual person, whether student or teacher, matters a great deal and has a program that is good for him or her. Today, schools are faced with an equally large transition from arbitrary grouping patterns to personalized learning alternatives. Unfortunately, they are also currently blessed with policy…
Descriptors: Social Support Groups, Principals, Teaching Methods, Community Support