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Petty, Nicholas; King-White, Dakota; Banks, Tachelle – Multicultural Learning and Teaching, 2023
Throughout the United States there are millions of Black and Brown students starting the process of attending college. However, research indicates that students from traditionally marginalized groups are less likely than their counterparts to complete the process and graduate college (Shapiro et al., 2017). While retention rates for students from…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Educational Philosophy, Outcomes of Education, Minority Group Students
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Lamm, Kevan W.; Carter, Hannah S.; Lamm, Alexa J. – Journal of Leadership Education, 2016
Although the term interpersonal leadership has been well established within the literature, there remains a dearth of theoretically derived models that specifically address the comprehensive nature of the underlying leader behaviors and activities. The intent of the present article is to attempt to synthesize the existent leadership models,…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Leadership Styles, Interpersonal Relationship, Models
Peters, Gary B. – Online Submission, 2008
The development and practice of a well-defined process in which decisions are fully contemplated is needed in education today. The complexity of societal issues requires new depths of understanding, appreciation, and communication. Framing refers to the way a situation is described or viewed; reframing is the process of expanding and enriching the…
Descriptors: Participative Decision Making, Cognitive Structures, Perspective Taking, Cultural Context
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Printy, Susan M.; Marks, Helen M. – Theory Into Practice, 2006
The article synthesizes research findings from studies examining how principals and teachers contribute to shared instructional leadership and the relationship of shared instructional leadership to teacher and student learning. Principals and teachers contribute to the leadership equation in each school in different ways, according to school…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Principals, Teachers, Supervisor Supervisee Relationship
Gok, Kubilay; Peterson, Kent D.; Warren, Valli D. – Online Submission, 2005
One of the most visible and widespread of the current educational reforms is the attempt to decentralize authority to schools and to involve teachers and others in shared decision making. Often occurring together as site-based shared decision making (SBDM), this reform is turning out to be more difficult to implement than once thought. Few noted…
Descriptors: School Based Management, Administrative Organization, Participative Decision Making, Skills
Benjamin, Roger; And Others – 1993
This report, part of a project called "Redesigning Higher Education", argues that a set of fundamental changes underlies the growing number of critical difficulties faced by higher education in the United States. It finds the governance structures of American higher education inadequate to deal with a changing and increasingly cost-conscious…
Descriptors: College Administration, Educational Change, Educational Environment, Financial Exigency
Tananis, Cynthia A. – 1998
The Regional Math/Science Collaborative (RMSC) of Southwestern Pennsylvania is a grassroots approach to strengthening math and science education through regional planning and evaluation. The Collaborative consists of stakeholders representing educators, students, parents, university faculty, and business and community members. External evaluation…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Sonnenwald, Diane H.; Lievrouw, Leah A. – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1991
Discussion of communication between designers and users of information systems focuses on a review of seven participatory design techniques in terms of the communication dimensions found in the Lievrouw and Finn communication systems model. Implications for the development of more effective and appropriate design models and methods are suggested.…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Computer Software, Computer System Design, Designers
Michel, George J. – Illinois Schools Journal, 1991
In the site-based management model, principals must have specific skills for effective leadership. Those skills include an ability to motivate teachers, support open management, engineer participative decision making, develop human and group skills with strong communication, and lead and guide activities and groups toward the goals of the school.…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Role, Communication Skills, Educational Planning
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Sackney, Larry; Walker, Keith – Journal of Educational Administration, 2006
Purpose: This paper sets out to posit that the new economy places a new set of demands on schools and those who lead. Mindfulness, intentional engagement of people and adaptive confidence are needed developmental features of beginning principal success. The paper examines how beginning principals in Canada respond to the capacity-building work of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Leadership, Beginning Principals, Learning Activities
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Kensing, Finn; Simonsen, Jesper; Bodker, Keld – Human-Computer Interaction, 1998
Presents a conceptual framework and a coherent method for information-technology design in an organizational context within the participatory-design tradition. The MUST method, developed through projects in Danish and American organizations, is based on thorough participation with users and managers and combines the use of ethnographic techniques…
Descriptors: Computer System Design, Cooperative Programs, Designers, Ethnography
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Hart, Roger; Daiute, Collette; Iltus, Selim; Kritt, David; Rome, Michaela; Sabo, Kim – Social Justice, 1997
Reviews developmental psychology literature for its relevance for designing organizations for children and youth followed by a review of theories on the development of children's identity, social understanding, and capacity to participate. The reviews summarize what is being said about the values of youth participation in community organizations…
Descriptors: Children, Community Organizations, Community Programs, Developmental Psychology
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Kezar, Adrianna; Eckel, Peter D. – Journal of Higher Education, 2004
Over the past four decades higher education institutions have faced increasing complexity related to governance (Berdahl, 1991; Birnbaum, 1988; Kezar, 2000; Leslie & Fretwell, 1996). In particular, institutions now face even greater competing priorities and demands to engage the community, business, and industry; to solve social problems and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Governance, Accountability, College Faculty
Matthews, Dona; Menna, Rosanne – Education Canada, 2003
Research on teaching and learning emphasizes the need for school-family partnerships, student engagement, opportunities for relevant and authentic learning, and community involvement in the learning process. The case of a gifted but bored "problem student" shows how a school counselor encouraged collaborative problem solving among…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Educational Counseling, Elementary Secondary Education, Family School Relationship
Duttweiler, Patricia Cloud; Ramos-Cancel, Maria L. – 1986
This document is a synthesis of the current literature on performance-based incentive systems for teachers and administrators. Section one provides an introduction to the reform movement and to performance-based pay initiatives; a definition of terms; a brief discussion of funding sources; a discussion of compensation strategies; a description of…
Descriptors: Career Ladders, Elementary Secondary Education, Incentives, Job Performance
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