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Weaver, D'Andre Jovan – ProQuest LLC, 2018
As a result of the national shift to a more standards-based model for education, principals across the country are leading organizational change in all aspects of curriculum, instruction, assessment, and leadership for student learning. One reform initiative, entitled standards-based grading (SBG), attempts to reimagine the way schools measure and…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Role, Grading, Standards
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Matsumura, Lindsay Clare; Sartoris, Mary; Bickel, Donna DiPrima; Garnier, Helen E. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2009
Purpose: This study investigated the relationship between principal leadership and variation in teachers' participation in a new literacy coaching program: Content-Focused Coaching[R] (CFC). Research design: Twenty-nine schools were randomly assigned to participate in the CFC program or to serve as a comparison. Interviews were conducted with…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Role, Coaching (Performance), Literacy
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Chikoko, Vitallis – International Journal of Educational Development, 2009
Debates about decentralisation, involving questions such as who should make decisions about public schooling and who should pay for it [Caillods, F., 1999. Preface. In: McGinn, N., Welsh, T. (Eds.), Decentralization of Education: Why, When, What and How? UNESCO, Paris] have permeated and affected educational planning in the last 20 or so years.…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Educational Finance, Principals, Administrator Role
Sherbinko, Thomas, Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this holistic case study with a mixed methods approach was two-fold: first, to investigate the extent to which elementary teachers in the BTSD sustained the use of formative assessment reform to regulate instruction, and second, to explore the factors that promoted fidelity to formative assessment reform. Although this study…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Formative Evaluation, Teacher Participation, Collegiality
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Byrne, Robert – NASSP Bulletin, 1983
Describes current attitudes toward staff development through inservice education, the need to coordinate staff evaluation and inservice programs, and the leadership required of administrators and committees. Particular attention is paid to basing inservice programs on needs expressed by teachers. The program followed in Fort Lee (New Jersey) is…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Advisory Committees, Inservice Teacher Education, Needs Assessment
Short, Paula Myrick; Clark, Scott – Educational and Psychological Research, 1988
Data analysis at a secondary school indicated that discipline referrals significantly decreased following implementation of the Discipline Management Plan described in this report. (MLF)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Discipline, Discipline Policy, Principals