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Direct linkRah, Yeonjai – Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 2013
This case study explores how multiple leaders of an elementary school, which unexpectedly received 25 Hmong refugee students, addressed the needs of the students and families by cooperating with a community organization. FAST (Families and Schools Together), an after-school program created to increase parent involvement to help their children…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Administrators, Student Needs, Refugees
Maxcy, Brendan D.; Nguyen, Thu Suong T. – Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 2013
This case involves a struggle for control among differently situated leaders--district- and building-level administrators, teachers, parents and community members, and university partners--seeking to influence the reform agenda of a high-poverty urban elementary school serving Latina/Latino students. The various stakeholders encounter a variety of…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Elementary Schools, Poverty, Participative Decision Making
Download full textDe Los Santos, Esmeralda; Dominguez, Daniel G.; LaFrance, Kevin – Administrative Issues Journal: Education, Practice, and Research, 2011
This paper describes the use of advisory boards in the development of two competency-based business programs: one graduate and the other undergraduate. Though the programs varied significantly in structure and content, both used focus group methodology to collect comprehensive and relevant input from advisory board members comprised of local…
Descriptors: Innovation, Competency Based Education, Business Administration Education, Undergraduate Students
Abrego, Chuey; Pankake, Anita – Administrative Issues Journal: Education, Practice, and Research, 2011
The purpose of this mixed methods follow-up single case study was two-fold: to determine if a school district was able to sustain a professional learning community (PLC) and to identify factors that enhanced, inhibited, or promoted the sustainability of a PLC from a district-wide perspective, with particular focus on how a change in leadership,…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Trust (Psychology), Communities of Practice, Superintendents
Maxcy, Brendan D.; Nguyen, Thu Su'o'ng Thi. – Educational Policy, 2006
Recent work on distributed leadership extends an ongoing critique of conventional "heroic" leader portrayals. This article examines work in this area seeking implications for democratic school governance. With material from case studies of two Texas schools, it considers frameworks presented by Spillane, Halverson, and Diamond and by…
Descriptors: Politics of Education, Governance, Ethnography, Elementary Schools
Peer reviewedPena, Delores C. – School Community Journal, 2000
Explores issues concerning representation, training, guidelines, and parent representative roles to determine how Mexican-American parents serving on an elementary school advisory council were involved in school decision-making. Parents' role may be minor, due to factors (like staff assumptions) resulting in unequal knowledge, respect, and…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Case Studies, Cultural Differences, Elementary Education
