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The Changing Role of Principals: Are District Leaders and University Preparation Programs Providing the Needed Supports?
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Clifford Davis Jr.; Andy Nixon – AASA Journal of Scholarship & Practice, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic and the rapidly changing societal issues that it occasioned have accelerated the dynamic nature of the principalship. Changing demographics, technological advances, teachers' working conditions, social unrest, and in particular the global pandemic are among the factors driving this continuous role transformation. This study…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Role, Administrator Education, Technology Uses in Education
Title I Principals' Leadership Experiences and Strategies Influence on School and Student Improvement
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Shawnda Spruill – ProQuest LLC, 2021
After years of school improvement efforts to include Georgia's four hundred-million-dollar Race to the Top grant, Georgia's elementary, middle, and high schools have failed to significantly improve schoolwide student achievement. This qualitative portraiture study focused on three successful principals of previously chronically failing Title I…
Descriptors: Principals, Success, Academic Achievement, Elementary Schools
Prioritizing Principals Guidebook: Central Office Practices That Support School Leaders. The School Leadership District Cohort
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Ikemoto, Gina – George W. Bush Institute, Education Reform Initiative, 2021
The George W. Bush Institute's School Leadership Initiative (SLI) District Cohort Research Project is a five-year effort with four school districts to test two frameworks--Principal Talent Management (PTM) and Effective Implementation. This collaboration is designed to improve how districts prepare, recruit, support, and retain principals. This…
Descriptors: Principals, School Districts, Work Environment, Central Office Administrators
Implementation of Shared Governance for Instructional Improvement: Principals' Perspectives.
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Blase, Jo; Blase, Joseph – Journal of Educational Administration, 1999
Describes practices, thoughts, and feelings of exemplary, shared-governance principals at nine schools affiliated with Glickman's League of Professional Schools in Georgia, using open-ended interviews. Findings showed that implementing shared governance incorporates five salient themes: meanings, involvement of others, redistribution of power,…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Elementary Secondary Education, Governance
Implementing a Shared Decision-Making Structure: A Case Study.
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Keedy, John L.; Finch, Aubrey M. – 1990
Ways in which a high school principal implemented a shared decision-making structure into his school are described in this case study. Two research questions are explored: the identification of the principal's school improvement agenda; and how he improved his school. Methodology involved interviews with the principal and teachers, as well as…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Case Studies, Educational Environment, Educational Improvement
"Tabula Rasa": Case Studies of Shared Governance.
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Roberts, Jo; Dungan, Sherry – School Organisation, 1994
Analyzes teachers' and students' perceptions of how participants became empowered in shared governance schools belonging to the Georgia-based League of Professional Schools. Includes descriptions of principals' related leadership practices. Participants reported increased communication quality and frequency both horizontally and vertically.…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Case Studies, Collegiality, Communication (Thought Transfer)