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Milley, Peter; Dulude, Éliane – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2021
Academic researchers tend not to study dysfunctional, disturbing or malfeasant administrative and organizational behaviors in the higher education (HE) sector; yet, a variety troubling things regularly take place in HE. This article offers some 'conceptual spadework' to open up the muted discussion about this disquieting aspect of the sector. We…
Descriptors: Higher Education, School Administration, Educational Administration, Administrator Behavior
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Brown, Frederick; Psencik, Kay – Learning Professional, 2017
Principals who pay attention to their own learning serve as models for others. What principals do every day, how they view and value student and educator learning, how they organize their staff into learning communities, and the designs they support for those teams to learn make a significant difference in the learning of those they serve. In this…
Descriptors: Principals, Role Models, Administrator Behavior, Administrator Education
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Pollock, Katina; Winton, Sue – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2016
Accountability in education is not new. Schools have always been accountable in one way or another to the communities they serve, regardless of the policy environment of the time (Elmore, "The Educational Forum," 69:134-142, 2005). This article explores how three principals from Ontario, Canada manage the tensions of multiple…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Accountability, Principals, Case Studies
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Hayden Williams, Ashley; Egbert, Stella; Coronado, Richard – Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 2018
This case study is a combination of real-life events that describe the complexity of dual roles within a small school. The administrators in this case have to determine the consequences in response to a student's misbehavior, who happens to be the godchild of the superintendent and the daughter of a middle school principal. The child's high school…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Small Schools, Case Method (Teaching Technique), Student Behavior
Mayer, Richard E. – Corwin, 2011
Veteran school board member, Richard E. Mayer, takes a humorous but substantive approach to the serious relationship between school administrators and board members. While the overwhelming majority of school board members have good motives, even people who mean well can make bad moves. This book shows how to prevent good intentions from creating…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Case Studies, School Administration, Administrators
Hamlin, Robert G. – Online Submission, 2007
This paper illustrates how Mode 2 "design science" research can generate HRD related "general knowledge" in support of evidence-based practice. It describes a "derived-etic" study that compares and contrasts the findings of six previous "emic" studies previously carried out within six different public and…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Administrator Effectiveness, Administrator Behavior, Criteria
Dunn, Rita; Brasco, Robert – School Administrator, 2006
When each new school year begins, young teachers arrive anxious they have not had adequate training to implement new instructional programs. Seasoned teachers are irritated they must adapt their teaching style yet again to meet administrators' expectations, and many administrators are daunted by the responsibility of motivating staff members,…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Instructional Leadership, Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests
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Schechter, Chen – International Journal of Educational Reform, 2006
This article is an attempt to reflect on the doubting process as an emerging perspective in school change. After introducing the notion of doubt and its importance to school change, the author describes conditions influencing the doubting process. She reflects on these conditions in a case example of a secondary school principal who doubted the…
Descriptors: Principals, Educational Change, Administrator Role, Administrator Attitudes