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Using Interactive, Problem-Based Simulations in a Mentoring Program for Novice School Leaders
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Bravender, Marlena; Staub, Nancy – Education Leadership Review, 2018
Leading American schools is a multi-faceted and complex role as states have adopted requirements for the mentoring of new principals. Interactive problem-based simulations can offer novice principals opportunities to practice solving job-embedded issues. This study explored practicing administrators interacting with simulations embedded into an…
Descriptors: Beginning Principals, Mentors, Instructional Leadership, Professional Development
The Socialization of New Principals: Another Perspective on Principal Retention.
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Aiken, Judith A. – Education Leadership Review, 2002
Report of a study on the socialization of new principals in one state's school. The goal was to discover how the principals learned about the culture of their schools and their places in them and the experiences that shaped their social and cultural transitions. (Contains 36 references.) (WFA)
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Behavior, Beginning Principals
Enabling Substantive Reform in the Preparation of School Leaders.
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Young, Michelle D.; Petersen, George J. – Education Leadership Review, 2002
Explores some of the challenges facing educational leadership from the position of university educational-leadership preparation programs. Examines the current and future context of leadership preparation through the metaphor of the sports league, in which each franchise is not independent, but interdependent. (Contains 1 figure and 55…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrator Effectiveness, Administrators, Beginning Principals
Bringing University Education Administration Programs Up to Par: Oh? You're Talking About a Leadership Practice Field.
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Coleman, Donald G.; Creighton, Theodore B. – Education Leadership Review, 2002
This article uses the analogy of mastering the game of golf to illuminate education-leadership preparation and practice. A response attempts a connection between the golf analogy as an argument for the implementation of leadership-practice fields in education-administration preparation programs, highlighting the importance of practice in the…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrator Effectiveness, Administrators, Beginning Principals