The purpose of this paper is to summarize research about the experience of newer instructional leaders in Jewish day schools in order to identify best practice in supporting them. Data is drawn from the results of a narrative study that explored the socialization of ten Jewish day school principals in the first three years of their first position…

Using an original data set of task-based interviews, this paper presents findings on how Jewish day school students make sense of Biblical Hebrew verses in Biblical Hebrew. This paper pushes back against the convention in Jewish communal discourse to evaluate and label knowledge, shifting the focus instead to understanding how knowledge is…

This paper presents the findings of a multi-site case study focused on the role of mid-day supervisors in English primary schools. Ethnographic approaches were employed to gain an understanding of the role and how this is experienced by those who undertake it. This included a fully participatory phase where the researcher inhabited the role of a…