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Krista Bixler; Marjorie Ceballos – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2025
Instructional leadership is a complex dimension, which requires that principals possess expertise in goal setting, leading the instructional program, and creating the conditions for a successful school environment. Effective instructional leaders manage the instructional program by planning, coordinating, and evaluating the work of teachers and…
Descriptors: Principals, Instructional Leadership, Artificial Intelligence, Educational Technology
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Baker-Jones, Tauheedah; Bouffard, Suzanne – Learning Professional, 2021
Tauheedah Baker-Jones is Atlanta Public Schools' first chief equity and social justice officer. She developed and now oversees the district's Center for Equity and Social Justice and the district's equity framework. In this article, she shares some of her experiences and learnings, as well as reflections on how districts can enable equity officers…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Social Justice, Public Schools, Leadership Responsibility
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Harper, Jordan – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2023
Presidential assistants are important and trusted staff members to the president and the campus community at large. Despite their importance, little is known about the day-to-day of their jobs and how they may help advance equity and social justice goals and priorities at the community college level. This chapter attempts to rectify this gap…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Presidents, School Personnel, Equal Education
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Ahern, Caitlin; Cole, Johnny – Learning Professional, 2021
In the Lexington Public Schools, outside of Boston, Massachusetts, they pride themselves on being innovative. Two years ago, they demonstrated that spirit by creating a director of equity role. Positions like this hadn't previously existed in many districts like theirs -- small, suburban, well-resourced, high-performing, historically white, and…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Public Schools, Professional Development, Administrators
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Abrams, Jennifer – Learning Professional, 2021
While the concept of being a professional prominently features in teaching standards worldwide, as a profession teachers do not devote much time to the study of what it takes to be one. In schools, the idea of defining, and then supporting, the emotional and psychological development required to be a professional remains on the periphery -- it is…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Job Skills, Skill Development, Professional Identity
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Henninger, Mary L.; Ensign, Julene – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 2020
The purpose of this article is to examine a series of professional dispositions and provide practical examples of purposeful behaviors and tangible decision-making strategies related to the topics of collaboration, respect, reverence for learning, reflection, flexibility, and responsibility. Implications for necessary intentionality both within…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Teacher Characteristics, Professional Development, Preservice Teachers
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Day, Franklin H. – Journal of Special Education Leadership, 2022
Educational leaders have many responsibilities across a variety of settings. This is especially true of special education leaders, who work with an expanded age range, expanded needs, and expanded complexity not only resulting from compliance expectations and enhanced regulation but because of increasing research in the field guiding best…
Descriptors: Special Education, Leadership Responsibility, Leadership Qualities, Educational Needs
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Grant, Ashley; Hann, Tristan; Godwin, Rebecca; Shackelford, Daniel; Ames, Tyler – Educational Forum, 2020
Teachers' autonomy contributes to their development and retention decisions. While proficient teachers would benefit from more autonomy, developing teachers often require more structure and guidance. This article reviews the literature surrounding autonomy and proposes an argument for a Graduated Teacher Autonomy framework: a theoretical tool…
Descriptors: Professional Autonomy, Teacher Effectiveness, Faculty Mobility, Professional Development
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Wallack, Lawrence – Health Education & Behavior, 2019
Public health is the place where science, policy, politics, and activism converge. Each public health issue is a snapshot where we can see the unfolding of the collective processes that define who we are, what we believe, and what we value as a society. Our professional strength is our commitment to community and social justice values, but we are…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Public Health, Social Differences, Prediction
Ippolito, Jacy; Bean, Rita M. – Educational Leadership, 2019
To create a coaching culture, school leaders have to make it a priority and support coaching at every level, and continuously. This article offers five "dos" and four "don'ts" for school leaders on how to support coaching at their schools, highlighting topics such as professional development for coaches, scheduling time for…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Faculty Development, Leadership Responsibility, Principals
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Keywood, Jeannette Rea; Brill, Michelle F. – Journal of Extension, 2020
Effectively engaging individuals with developmental disabilities is essential to Extension's diversity and inclusion mandate. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported that over 6 million individuals have developmental disabilities. We in Extension have the potential to include a proportionate number of individuals with…
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Extension Education, Professional Development, Extension Agents
Pechota, Damion; Scott, Deven – Education Commission of the States, 2020
Research demonstrates that strong leadership has a positive impact on school quality. School and district leadership is second to classroom instruction, in terms of its influence on student learning. In addition, effective leaders are an important factor in the recruitment and retention of high-quality teachers. Because of this, states are…
Descriptors: Leadership Responsibility, Educational Quality, Administrator Effectiveness, Administrator Education
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Zimmermann, Bénédicte – International Journal of Training and Development, 2020
This paper discusses the scope of the employee's voice in lifelong education decisions, with a focus on qualified assembly-line workers and professional development schemes allowing their upward mobility out of the assembly line. Using a capability approach, it investigates voice as part of people's agency. Beyond examining the channels that allow…
Descriptors: Employees, Lifelong Learning, Foreign Countries, Manufacturing
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Mansfield, Kathleen; LaPrairie, Kimberly – International Journal on E-Learning, 2021
The 2020 COVID 19 pandemic situation forced our society to consider different ways to accomplish work and education. Many employees and learners personally invested in various technologies in their homes in order to fulfill work and educational commitments. Meanwhile, a considerable number of organizations struggled with assisting associates to…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Emergency Programs, Delivery Systems
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McCauley, Kelly Davis; Hinojosa, Amanda S. – Journal of Management Education, 2020
Doctoral education is inherently stressful for students. While the implications of stress on employees has been heavily investigated within the management literature, what we know about stress has not yet been applied to doctoral education. We take initial steps toward using the stress literature to examine stress in doctoral education by applying…
Descriptors: Doctoral Students, Doctoral Programs, Stress Variables, Individual Differences
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