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Download full textStephen Davis – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée, 2024
French immersion (FI) programs are becoming increasingly culturally and linguistically diverse as a result of growing migration to Canada. In the present mixed-methods study, I explore the perspectives and ideologies of teachers, principals, and central office staff in eight school divisions in Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Alberta with respect to…
Descriptors: Refugees, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Immersion Programs
Direct linkActon, Karen S. – Management in Education, 2021
In the current climate of accountability and calls for school improvement, principals are dealing with unceasing demands to implement new educational reforms. Yet do school leaders feel equipped to implement these mandates? This study investigated the perceptions of experienced elementary principals on whether they felt prepared to be effective…
Descriptors: School Administration, Elementary Schools, Principals, Leadership Role
Hardy, Ian; Melville, Wayne – Power and Education, 2019
This article reveals the multifaceted ways in which policy enactment was expressed as praxis in the context of assessment reform in Ontario, Canada. The research explores the way in which the Growing Success assessment policy was interpreted variously by different educators occupying senior roles within the district office in a single school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Educational Assessment, Praxis
Ryan, James; Tuters, Stephanie – Journal of Educational Administration, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe a study that explores the discreet activist strategies of educational leaders who promote social justice. Design/methodology/approach: Part of a larger project, this study employed qualitative methods. In particular, researchers interviewed 26 leaders--principals, vice principals, department heads,…
Descriptors: Activism, Social Justice, Instructional Leadership, Qualitative Research
Chu, Man-Wai – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2012
Using Roberts' (1982, 1988, 1995, 1998, 2003) seven science curriculum emphases as its framework, this investigation into Alberta's physics program-of-study found that pre-service and novice teachers reported focusing on four of the emphases--"Structure of Science"; "Scientific Skill Development"; "Science, Technology, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Experienced Teachers, Central Office Administrators
Schwartz, Heather Lee – School Administrator, 2010
As the charter school movement has come to scale within the United States, it poses new questions about how to govern public education. With a significant rural contingent, charter schools are no longer just an urban phenomenon. Partly in response to the growth in charter schools, Paul Hill, director of the Center on Reinventing Public Education,…
Descriptors: Traditional Schools, Charter Schools, School Districts, Foreign Countries
