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Brandon Arendse; Heather Nadia Phillips; Zayd Waghid – Perspectives in Education, 2024
Principals and school management teams are expected to provide unwavering leadership and professional and sustainable support to create opportunities for teachers and themselves to develop professionally. Currently, the lack of teacher content knowledge, low rates of motivation and accountability are key challenges resulting in the low-quality…
Descriptors: Principals, Instructional Leadership, Faculty Development, Professional Continuing Education
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Jacob D. Skousen; Spencer C. Weiler; David Boren; Breanna Pesci; Adam Johnson; Karla Antivilo; Jason Averett; Trystan Ricks Heaton; Nate Crandall – Journal of School Leadership, 2025
Purpose: Isolate the voice of recently retired educational leaders to better understand the essential elements of educational leadership from individuals who spent a career supporting schools and leading people. Research Methods: This qualitative study used snowball sampling to identify 10 recently retired educational leaders who were willing to…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, School Administration, Public Education, Principals
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Damore, Sharon J.; Rieckhoff, Barbara Stacy – Journal of Research on Leadership Education, 2021
This study extends previous work and builds upon the use of a prescribed coaching tool in an effort to build the capacity of school leaders in the role of instructional coaches. By using a reflective interview process and structured protocol, the authors present findings to suggest administrators need more intentional training to strengthen their…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Coaching (Performance), Reflection, Supervision
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Douglas Mitchell; Emma W. Laurie; Richard D. Williams; Kirstie A. Fryirs; Gary J. Brierley; Pamela L. M. Tolentino – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2024
Capacity strengthening activities -- be that in the form of courses, workshops, seminars -- have become embedded in research projects as a requirement for funding and as a means for researchers to demonstrate positive societal impacts. We apply qualitative research techniques including interviews, questionnaires and observations to scrutinise and…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Capacity Building, Geography Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Darren A. Bryant; Chun Sing Maxwell Ho; Jiafang Lu; Yiu Lun Leo Wong – Journal of Educational Administration, 2024
Purpose: This study addresses a gap in the knowledge on how longitudinal engagement in a school improvement initiative influences change in middle leaders' (MLs') interactions and assesses how school-university partnerships around school improvement can support teachers with formal leadership roles (i.e. MLs') leadership development.…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Educational Improvement, College School Cooperation, Longitudinal Studies
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Levin, Stephanie; Leung, Melanie; Edgerton, Adam K.; Scott, Caitlin – Learning Policy Institute, 2020
School principals are essential for ensuring that students have access to strong educational opportunities. They shape a vision of academic success for all students; create a climate hospitable to education; cultivate leadership in others so that teachers and other adults feel empowered to realize their schools' visions; guide instructional…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Principals, Management Development, Capacity Building
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Chirchir Matthew Kimeli – European Educational Researcher, 2019
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of senior management training on transfer of learning among public officers trained by Kenya school of Government by establishing whether training interventions yield corresponding increase in the level of trainees' knowledge, skills and attitude. F-test was used to find out whether there was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Service Occupations, Public Administration Education, Management Development
Turnbull, Brenda J.; Aladjem, Daniel K.; Fletcher, Kathleen; Kidd, Sophie – Policy Studies Associates, Inc., 2022
In the ESSA Leadership Learning Community (ELLC), education agency leaders, community organization leaders, and others have together taken on challenges facing schools and school leaders in their states. They have produced advice to state agencies on policy design and rollout, for example on official definitions of equity, on requirements for…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Leadership, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Legislation
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Hartvigson, Lars; Heshmati, Almas – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2023
This study compares an ideal model of a sustainable research institution and the dominating model used by Sida. It uses a complementary capacity building (CCB) model aimed to promote an improved research culture for strengthening the sustainability of research partnerships in economics and management disciplines. This study uses bibliometric data…
Descriptors: Sustainability, International Cooperation, Educational Development, Foreign Countries
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Dagnew Kelkay, Asrat – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2020
The purpose of this study was to investigate leadership practice of school principals and cluster supervisors in implementing continuous professional development (CPD) program. School principals (14) and cluster supervisors (4) were included in the study using comprehensive sampling techniques. A total of 305 teachers were selected from 14…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Supervisors, Teacher Supervision
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Simon, Susan; Dole, Shelley; Farragher, Yvonne – School Leadership & Management, 2019
Transition from teacher to principal involves both a technocratic response based on 'yearning for certainty' that requisite leadership skills will be learned, and a critically-reflexive approach to adopting a new professional identity (Crow and Møller 2017. "Professional Identities of School Leaders across International Contexts: An…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Beginning Principals, Coaching (Performance), Management Development
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Sandri, Orana; Holdsworth, Sarah – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2022
Purpose: This paper aims to draw on an in-depth qualitative case study of an undergraduate sustainability education course to show the extent of pedagogical reflection and teaching capability demonstrated in lived practice to support transformative, systemic and capability building learning processes, as advocated in the literature, for effective…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Sustainability, Case Studies, Transformative Learning
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Zhu, Chang; Zayim-Kurtay, Merve – European Journal of Higher Education, 2018
The main purpose of this study is to explore Chinese and European university staff members' perceptions about the challenges and capacity building needs in terms of academic leadership and university governance. A survey questionnaire with open-ended questions was administered to 58 staff members from 7 Chinese universities and 31 staff members…
Descriptors: Capacity Building, Instructional Leadership, Foreign Countries, College Faculty
Elaine Lin Wang; Heather L. Schwartz; Monica Mean; Laura Stelitano; Benjamin K. Master – RAND Corporation, 2019
Since 2004, the National Institute for School Leadership (NISL) has offered the Executive Development Program (EDP), a leadership program for sitting school principals that is typically delivered in two-day workshops once per month over 12 months. From its inception through 2018, 15,000 principals across 23 states have participated in the EDP.…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Management Development, Principals, Program Effectiveness
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Stiehl, Sibylle K.; Felfe, Jörg; Elprana, Gwen; Gatzka, Magdalena B. – International Journal of Training and Development, 2015
In this study, the construct of motivation to lead (MtL) is considered as a predictor of leadership training effectiveness. MtL, the individual preference to take on leadership roles, is a motivation that specifically relates to the content of leadership training. A total of 132 managers participated in a longitudinal follow-up study. The…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Instructional Effectiveness, Motivation, Leadership
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