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Abdul-Jabbar, Mustafa – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation investigates how relational trust manifests within schools that have recently enacted the distributed leadership framework, a program implementation by the Penn Center for Educational Leadership. First, the dissertation highlights research that connects the distributed leadership and relational trust frameworks in the task of…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Participative Decision Making, Transformational Leadership, Leadership Effectiveness
Burns, Amy; Whitney, Joye; Shah, Hardeek; Foley, Ellen; Dure, Elsa – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University (NJ1), 2011
In January 2010, the Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE) identified Central Falls High School (CFHS) as one of the state's persistently lowest-achieving schools. The Central Falls School District (CFSD) and the Central Falls Teachers Union (CFTU) considered the transformation model but could not come to an agreement initially around…
Descriptors: High Schools, Educational Administration, Politics of Education, Educational Change
Martin, Earin M. – 1997
Proponents of school restructuring agree that it must occur with support from all stakeholder groups. This paper presents findings of a study that examined to what extent educational personnel engaged in restructuring (principals, teachers, and external facilitators of change) agreed or disagreed that 60 conditions identified in the research…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Cooperation, Educational Environment, Educational Improvement
Becker, Myron; And Others – 1992
According to pioneers in the effective-schools movement, every school can improve educational quality for all its students, including poor and minority children, by incorporating a set of essential, research-identified characteristics present in successful schools. This publication discusses basic elements of the ongoing effective-schools movement…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrator Responsibility, Community Involvement, Educational Environment