This research aimed to: (i) determine the components and indicators of school administrators in the era of global change in primary schools in the special area of the southern border provinces, (ii) analyze the components and indicators of educational administrators in the era of global change, and (iii) investigate the development guidelines for…

This qualitative, phenomenological study aimed to explore how teachers perceive the influence of experienced principals who are new to a school, specifically as it relates to how their actions and behaviors impact a school's culture. Kouzes and Posner's Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership were used to create the interview questions and analyze…

The purpose of this non-experimental quantitative study is to obtain middle school teachers' perceptions of their principals' leadership attributes and analyze how their perceptions of those leadership attributes relate to their sense of self-efficacy. Teacher participants from five middle schools in a lower Rio Grande Valley (RGV) school district…

The teacher shortage will be a major hurdle for school leaders over the next several years with declining enrollments in teacher preparatory programs and many teachers changing professions in their first five years. The "2021 Illinois Educator Shortage Survey," authored by Shereen Oca Beilstein and Tom Withee, and sponsored by several…

This qualitative narrative inquiry aimed to explore current classroom teachers' preferred leadership characteristics of school leadership; specifically, the complex relationship between teacher perception of principal leadership characteristics and their influence on teacher retention on Title I campuses. This was a 2-part narrative inquiry…

This study aims to examine the relationships between school principals' entrepreneurial competencies, sustainable management behaviours and generative leadership according to the perceptions of teachers working in state-owned schools. The causal screening model was used in the study, the data of the relevant variables were obtained by the scales…

This study mainly aims to identify the correlations between school principals' toxic leadership characteristics and teachers' perceptions of mobbing. Beside its fundamental purpose, this study also aims to identify the levels of school principals' toxic leadership characteristics and of teachers' mobbing perception and whether or not those levels…

The purpose of this quantitative, predictive correlational study was to determine if and to what extent teacher perception of principal charismatic leadership characteristics, both collectively and individually, predicted teacher job satisfaction in a large urban school district in the Southwestern United States. Based on Herzberg's Two-Factor…

Purpose: Early conceptual thinking about distrust and more recent neurological evidence reveals that distrust is not the same as low trust. They are distinct mental states, active in different brain regions and shaped by different experiences. We use this evidence to conceptualize teacher distrust in the school principal and to construct a set of…

The more than six decades of research on school effectiveness and the two decades of research on school success demonstrates the importance of principal leadership in successful schools. However, the 30-year history of research on person-environment fit has not been robustly connected to the literature on successful school leadership. This study…

The purpose of this study was to discover the role and influence of high school administrator's emotional intelligence on classroom teachers' perception of administrative support at a public high school in northern Delaware. The theory guiding this study is Goleman's theory of emotional intelligence. This transcendental phenomenological study was…

This qualitative study examines elementary educators' perceptions of their school principals' impact on school culture and elementary educator retention. A constructivist grounded-theory approach was used to interview 10 volunteers from a purposive sample of elementary educators from Midwest school districts. Participants were asked to describe…

Teacher turnover is associated with administrative leadership; however, there is an empirical gap in the practices that principals enact that influence teacher turnover. This article uses in-depth case studies and interviews with 32 teachers across two high-turnover and two low turnover middle schools in one large urban public school district to…

The role and importance of pedagogical leadership have been recognized in a number of research findings. In order to understand how practitioners in primary schools perceive the main features of pedagogical leadership in practice, a questionnaire survey was applied in five Czech primary schools. This questionnaire addressed eight dimensions of…

The Servant Leadership Scale has been developed in the context of the university. This scale has seven dimensions: behaving ethically, development, emotional healing, empowerment, pioneering, relationship building, and wisdom. Furthermore, this scale was modified into six dimensions: authenticity, behaving ethically, development, emotional…