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Daly, Alan J.; Chrispeels, Janet – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2008
Recent studies have suggested that educational leaders enacting a balance of technical and adaptive leadership have an effect on increasing student achievement. Technical leadership focuses on problem-solving or first-order changes within existing structures and paradigms. Adaptive leadership involves deep or second-order changes that alter…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Administrator Role, Integrity, Multiple Regression Analysis
Dwyer, David C.; And Others – 1985
This case study presents findings from a year-long ethnographic study of a principal of an elementary school in a stable, urban environment. It concludes one of seven studies conducted in elementary and intermediate schools in urban, suburban, and rural settings to investigate the instructional management role of principals. Although previous…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Behavior Patterns, Case Studies, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Dwyer, David C.; And Others – 1985
This case study presents findings from a year-long ethnographic study of a principal at a dilapidated rural elementary school with arid, dusty surroundings. It concludes one of seven studies conducted in elementary and intermediate schools in urban, suburban, and rural settings to investigate the instructional management roles of principals.…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Behavior Patterns, Case Studies, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Dwyer David C.; And Others – 1985
This case study presents findings from a year-long ethnographic study of an innercity elementary school principal. It concludes one of seven studies conducted in elementary and intermediate schools in urban, suburban, and rural settings to investigate the instructional management role of principals. Although previous research offers disparate…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Behavior Patterns, Case Studies, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Dwyer, David C.; And Others – 1985
This case study presents findings from a year-long ethnographic study of an urban junior high school principal. It concludes one of seven studies conducted in elementary and intermediate schools in urban, suburban, and rural settings to investigate the instructional management role of principals. Although previous research offers disparate…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Behavior Patterns, Beliefs, Case Studies
Dwyer, David C.; And Others – 1985
This case study presents findings from a year-long ethnographic study of a suburban elementary school principal. It concludes one of seven studies conducted in elementary and intermediate schools in urban, suburban, and rural settings to investigate the instructional management role of principals. Although previous research offers disparate…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Behavior Patterns, Case Studies, Communication (Thought Transfer)