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Alice Doriel Stortini – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This qualitative, phenomenological study aimed to explore how teachers perceive the influence of experienced principals who are new to a school, specifically as it relates to how their actions and behaviors impact a school's culture. Kouzes and Posner's Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership were used to create the interview questions and analyze…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Beginning Principals, School Culture, Elementary School Teachers
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Virella, Patricia – Journal of Educational Administration, 2023
Purpose: This paper aims to highlight how a group of novice principals in Connecticut and New York used relational, dispositional and situational factors to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. The study aims to support new principals and educational leaders. Design/methodology/approach: Using Mutch's (2015) dispositional, relational and…
Descriptors: Beginning Principals, COVID-19, Pandemics, Administrator Role
Rebecca C. Meyers – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Quality induction programming for novice principals should promote experiences that build self-efficacy (Tschannen-Moran & Gareis, 2007). Critical induction experiences are necessary to prepare school leaders for the increasing demands of the role. In the ever-changing world of public education, the importance of high-impact experiences for…
Descriptors: Administrator Effectiveness, Principals, Elementary Schools, Administrator Characteristics
Bastian, Kevin C. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
In the following three studies we explore ways to improve the quality of school-based personnel by identifying characteristics and training of effective teachers and principals. First, to enhance the selection and hiring of teachers into preparation programs and/or school districts, we examine whether teachers' non-cognitive characteristics…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Selection, Teacher Education Programs, Academic Achievement
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Northfield, Shawn – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2014
As part of principal succession, new school leaders must take action to solidify their position as the school's legitimate lead authority while at the same time, develop and utilize interactive mechanisms designed to nurture staff relations and engender teacher support and confidence in their leadership. For beginning principals, this process…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Instructional Leadership, Models, Interpersonal Competence
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Wright, Jason; Siegrist, Gerald; Pate, James; Monetti, David; Raiford, Simmie – International Journal of Educational Leadership Preparation, 2009
This study attempted to determine the perceptions of beginning principals regarding their need for induction experiences and the relationship of principal responsibilities to those perceived induction needs. Beginning principals were denied as principals in their first through third years as a principal in a school. The study further examined…
Descriptors: Beginning Principals, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Attitudes, Elementary Schools