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Jones, Michelle; Adams, Donnie; Joo, Mabel Tan Hwee; Muniandy, Vasu; Perera, Corinne Jaqueline; Harris, Alma – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2015
This article outlines the findings from a contemporary study of principals' leadership practices in Malaysia as part of the 7 System Leadership Study. Recent policy developments within Malaysia have increased principals' accountability and have underlined the importance of the role of the principals in transforming school performance and student…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Leadership Styles, Educational Administration
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Hylander, Ingrid – Journal of Educational & Psychological Consultation, 2014
System-level consultation or organizational development in schools is an area in great need of theoretical models and definitions. The three articles in this special issue provide a unique learning opportunity not only for consultation across borders but also for consultation within the same nation. In my commentary, I limit my remarks to a few…
Descriptors: Consultation Programs, Systems Analysis, Organizational Development, Educational Principles
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Gomez, Rebecca E. – NHSA Dialog, 2012
This article details the findings from a qualitative study that explored the ways individuals who work with early childhood education (ECE) practitioners in professional development settings influenced those practitioners' understandings of early childhood policy and early childhood systems. Defined as individuals who work in the professional…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Specialists, Professional Development, Educational Policy
Rubinstein, Saul A.; McCarthy, John E. – Center for American Progress, 2011
For most of the past decade the policy debate over improving U.S. public education has centered on teacher quality. In this debate, teachers and their unions have often been seen as the problem, not part of the solution. Further, current discourse often assumes that conflicting interests between teacher unions and administration is inevitable.…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Stakeholders, Cooperation, Public Schools
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Li, Qiang; Wu, Zhongyuan – International Education Studies, 2008
The paper mainly introduces the development of the educational administration agency in China, including the evolution of the educational administration agency, the Course of instituting legal system of education in China, the missions of the now Minister of Education, questions emerged in the development of the educational administration system,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Administration, Educational Development, Educational Change
Pittman, Karen, Ed.; Irby, Merita, Ed.; Adams-Taylor, Sharon, Ed. – American Association of School Administrators, 2008
The American Association of School Administrators (AASA) invited the 2007 state winners to gather in Denver, Colorado, for three days of intensive dialogue about the challenges facing today's superintendents. As a result of the panels and small group discussions that followed, superintendents identified and detailed in this paper five avenues for…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Recognition (Achievement), Change Agents, Change Strategies
Clymer, E. William – Journal of Instructional Development, 1984
Describes organizational factors that influence most instructional development projects, relates them to the features of the project-oriented matrix, and lists and explains specific matrix management strategies that instructional developers can use to solve common management problems. (MBR)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Charts, Educational Administration, Instructional Development