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District Leaders' Framing of Educator Evaluation Policy
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Woulfin, Sarah L.; Donaldson, Morgaen L.; Gonzales, Richard – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2016
Purpose: Educator evaluation systems have recently undergone scrutiny and reform, and district and school leaders play a key role in interpreting and enacting these systems. This article uses framing theory to understand district leaders' interpretation and advancement of a state's new educator evaluation policy. Research Methods: The article…
Descriptors: School Districts, Teacher Evaluation, Educational Policy, Superintendents
Literacy Coach Role Implementation: How District Context Influences Reform Efforts
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Mangin, Melinda M. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2009
Purpose: This study examines the outcomes of one regional intermediate school district's effort to promote literacy coach role implementation in its 20 constituent districts. The findings from this study provide information about the kinds of district-level contexts that influenced literacy coach role implementation and how those contexts were…
Descriptors: School Districts, Superintendents, Teacher Leadership, Instructional Improvement
Reforms in Urban School District Policy Making: Comparing the "Watchdog" and the "Think Tank."
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Hentschke, Guilbert C. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1980
Examines two reform efforts that indicate promising strategies for changing and improving urban school district decision- and policy-making systems, particularly as those systems reflect the relationships among boards of education, school superintendents, and the school district bureaucracy. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Administrators, Board Administrator Relationship, Boards of Education, Decision Making