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Allyce La'Fay Pinchback-Johnson – ProQuest LLC, 2024
For decades, Pittsburgh Public Schools (PPS) has blatantly disregarded and ostracized Black caregivers and community members who have attempted to address concerns about the educational experience of Black students. The only moderately successful strategy was political activism led by Dr. Barbara Sizemore in the 1970s to secure a board majority,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, African American Students, Females, Public Schools
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Tian, Meng; Nutbrown, Graham – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2023
Existing distributed leadership (DL) theories tend to focus on distributing financial, material and human resources in order to enhance school performance. However, their impact appears controversial. Critical scholars assert that using DL to promote trust and democracy can be a self-fulfilling prophecy orchestrated by few formal leaders. When…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Participative Decision Making, Trust (Psychology), Social Justice
Supovitz, Jonathan A.; D'Auria, John; Spillane, James P. – Consortium for Policy Research in Education, 2019
School leadership is broadly acknowledged to be the lynchpin for school success. Yet, amongst the countless demands that school leaders face, making wise leadership choices is increasingly challenging. On what should leaders focus their attention and how should they prioritize their improvement efforts? How can they identify, understand, and make…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, School Effectiveness, Power Structure, Participative Decision Making
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Myende, Phumlani Erasmus – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2019
Globally, there is agreement that school-community partnerships are one of the mechanisms to address challenges that schools cannot address alone. However, evidence suggests that where school-community partnerships have been initiated, their functionality and continuity is not always easy to achieve, and research locally and internationally has…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Community Relationship, Partnerships in Education, Sustainability
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Liljenberg, Mette – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2015
Leadership is considered to be significant for creating a developing and learning school organisation. In Sweden, distributed leadership and teacher teams are an "institutionalised practice"; despite this, sustainable school improvement is difficult to achieve. This article presents findings from a case study of three schools that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Power Structure, Participative Decision Making, Case Studies
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Bredeson, Paul V. – Journal of School Leadership, 2013
The leadership-for-learning project described in this article is supported by a grant from the Wallace Foundation and implemented through a partnership of faculty in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and faculty at two other universities in the state, the Department of Public…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Urban Schools, High Schools, Principals
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Lumby, Jacky – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2013
In about a decade the theory of distributed leadership has moved from a tool to better understand the ecology of leadership to a widely prescribed practice. This article considers how to account for its spread and dominance and what purpose it serves. The concept offers an enticing suggestion of including more in leadership, and even sometimes…
Descriptors: Participative Decision Making, Leadership Styles, Barriers, Power Structure
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Byrne-Jimenez, Monica; Orr, Margaret Terry – Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 2012
Urban schools often experience rapid turnover among teachers and leaders. Yet, research and practice highlight the importance of sustained leadership over time as an integral component of school improvement. Successful leadership requires principals who operate in multiple dimensions at once, moving from individual capacity to group empowerment,…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Leadership, Principals, Educational Change
Ziegler, William T.; Ramage, David E. – Principal Leadership, 2012
Schools must be learning organizations, but learning does not happen automatically. Visiting classrooms, reviewing student work, collecting artifacts, and analyzing achievement data is essential to the health of a school and its ability to educate students. One of the key ways the school administrators of Pottsgrove Middle School in Pottstown,…
Descriptors: Leadership, Middle Schools, Transformational Leadership, Leadership Styles
Donaldson, Rebecca Jane – ProQuest LLC, 2012
States have been given flexibility under No Child Left Behind to create need-driven comprehensive school improvement plans with an approved accountability system, however those unable to show increased student learning will be deemed as failing. Schools labeled as failing require a comprehensive framework for improvement. Research has identified a…
Descriptors: School Turnaround, Case Studies, Failure, Educational Improvement
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Mayrowetz, David; Murphy, Joseph; Louis, Karen Seashore; Smylie, Mark A. – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2007
In this article, we revive work redesign theory, specifically Hackman and Oldham's Job Characteristics Model (JCM), to examine distributed leadership initiatives. Based on our early observations of six schools engaged in distributed leadership reform and a broad review of literature, including empirical tests of work redesign theory, we retrofit…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Educational Change, Participative Decision Making, Power Structure
Golanda, Eugene L. – 1990
This paper raises important questions about proposals for empowerment and shared governance in U.S. schools. Holding that consent is the key to understanding power and empowerment, the paper defines these concepts, discusses the purposes of empowerment, describes the types of empowerment being attempted, and outlines some predictable consequences.…
Descriptors: Definitions, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Organizational Effectiveness
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James, Thomas – American Journal of Education, 1988
Forms of organized authority that eclipse freedom of thought and action exist as a possibility in both public and private schooling. Historical patterns of resistance to public authority through private schooling are examined. Greater attention to democratic versus authoritarian aspects of socialization is much needed in discussions of school…
Descriptors: Authoritarianism, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Modern History
Slotnik, William J.; And Others – 1985
This self-help manual contains advice for parents who want to improve the schools their children attend by influencing school planning, policy, and administrative practices. The first step in improving schools is deciding whether a new group is necessary. If it is, parents must connect with other parents and then hold a first meeting at which…
Descriptors: Activism, Cooperative Planning, Educational Improvement, Group Activities
Torbert, William R. – 1981
Educational research has thus far failed to greatly improve education because it is based on a model of reality that emphasizes unilateral control in both research and practice. Efforts to gain unilateral control presume that researchers or practitioners know what is significant from the outset, that they are essentially outside the situation they…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Discovery Learning, Educational Improvement, Educational Practices