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Deborah Stipek – State Education Standard, 2024
States and school districts endeavoring to improve learning outcomes for young children typically focus on literacy, not math. Math is often overlooked in improvement initiatives, and it gets far less instructional time than literacy in preschool and the early grades. While literacy skills are unquestionably critical, so are math skills. Math…
Descriptors: Mathematics Skills, Mathematics Teachers, School Districts, Curriculum Development
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Shaked, Haim; Schechter, Chen – Journal of School Administration Research and Development, 2019
Systems thinking involves attempts to understand and improve complex systems, examines systems holistically, and focuses on the way that a system's constituent parts interrelate. This essay provides examples of how systems thinking can enable principals to demonstrate instructional leadership and nurture learning-focused schools in the current era…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Principals, Instructional Leadership, Curriculum Development
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Shamila Ramsookbhai – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2023
This critical qualitative study focused on what are the factors that contribute to high learner performance at a public school in South Africa. Purposive sampling was used and the data was produced via interviews with the participants (the principal, ten teachers, five ex learners and two parents) as well as observations of various school…
Descriptors: Social Change, Racial Segregation, Foreign Countries, Principals
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Owen, Susanne; Wong, Debbie – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2021
After decades of conflict with Indonesia, Timor-Leste is gradually rebuilding its education infrastructure and reclaiming its identity as an independent country. In the first decade post-independence the education sector faced many challenges, including a lack of school buildings and resources, the need to replenish and upskill the Timorese…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Capacity Building, Faculty Development, Mentors
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Shaked, Haim; Schechter, Chen – NASSP Bulletin, 2016
As instructional leadership involves attempts to understand and improve complex systems, this study explored principals' perceptions regarding possible contributions of systems thinking to instructional leadership. Based on a qualitative analysis, systems thinking was perceived by middle and high school principals to contribute to the following…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Instructional Leadership, Holistic Approach, Principals
Fullan, Michael; And Others – 1978
This volume, the fourth of a five-volume series, contains three onsite case studies of organization development (OD) selected from a sample of 76 school districts. The purpose of the case studies was to analyze in detail different types of OD programs and their use. Each case study represents a different OD focus: case study A involves a survey…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrators, Adoption (Ideas), Boards of Education
Southern Regional Education Board, Atlanta, GA. – 1999
In 1992, school leaders and teachers at Wallace-Rose High School in Teachey, North Carolina, began a multi-year whole-school improvement initiative that included the following actions: (1) identify low-performing students; (2) develop a team of faculty and administrators to work with low-performing students; (3) reduce class size for…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Education, Academic Standards, Administrator Role