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Philip Hallinger; Köksal Banoglu; Sedat Gümüs – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2025
This scoping review examined 41 peer-reviewed articles on digital simulations and serious games used in educating school leaders. Content analysis documented the wide range of theories and topics incorporated into existing educational leadership simulations, e.g. instructional leadership, change management, problem-solving, coaching, and ethical…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Educational Games, Instructional Leadership, Educational Research
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Leung-Gagné, Melanie; Levin, Stephanie; Wechsler, Marjorie E. – Learning Policy Institute, 2022
This technical supplement provides details on the survey methodology and results presented in the report "Developing Effective Principals: What Kind of Learning Matters?" The full report shows that principals' access to high-quality learning opportunities varies across states and by school poverty level. To draw these conclusions, the…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Effectiveness, Administrator Education, Management Development
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Gordon, Stephen P. – NASSP Bulletin, 2020
The author identifies 10 phases of the principal development pipeline, some of which are seldom acknowledged and many of which are inadequately addressed. The author argues that various stakeholder groups should collaborate to provide continuous professional development to future and current principals through each phase of the pipeline. Examples…
Descriptors: Principals, Professional Development, Professional Continuing Education, Stakeholders
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Campoli, Ayana K.; Darling-Hammond, Linda – Learning Policy Institute, 2022
Preparation and professional development can help principals be more effective leaders, but little research has examined what specific approaches are most useful. A study of 462 California principals and the teachers and students in their schools shows that high-quality preservice preparation for principals is associated with stronger teacher…
Descriptors: Principals, School Administration, Instructional Leadership, Administrator Education
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Campoli, Ayana K.; Darling-Hammond, Linda – Learning Policy Institute, 2022
A growing body of research points to the substantial influence of principals on school conditions and students' learning. But how can principals learn to be good leaders? And are there professional learning strategies that make a difference in principal effectiveness? This study, which is part of a larger project synthesizing the research on…
Descriptors: Principals, School Administration, Instructional Leadership, Management Development
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Nava, Marco A.; Davalos, Ileana M.; Cortes, Martha V.; White, Jeffrey A.; Lesser, Jonathan – Educational Leadership and Administration: Teaching and Program Development, 2020
This report shows the impact that a two-year, coaching based, job-embedded administrator credentialing program is having on the leadership development of new administrators. The Clear Administrative Services Credential (CASC) program is centered on a conceptual framework founded on six professional learning standards combined with real life…
Descriptors: Individualized Instruction, Coaching (Performance), Leadership Training, Credentials
Newton, Leigh Anne – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This applied research study seeks to improve principal capacity as instructional leaders. The need for principals to increase their instructional leadership capacity became evident with the ever-changing requirements of state accountability and student achievement. Using four elements in this study, cohort-based professional development for…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Management Development, Principals, School Districts
Brooke Beiter – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Principal retention is a growing concern for educational leaders in the United States. This comes at a time when millennial educators are also rising into positions of leadership with the reputation of a high turnover generation. Millennials have named mentorship as a preferred method for professional growth. Decades of research speaks to the…
Descriptors: Mentors, Self Efficacy, Generational Differences, Instructional Leadership
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Gümüs, Sedat; Bellibas, Mehmet Sükrü – International Journal of Educational Management, 2020
Purpose: There is an extensive body of contemporary educational literature concerning teachers' professional development (PD), but little attention has been paid to the PD of principals, despite their vital role in improving student learning outcomes. The available literature on principals' PD deals with content and quality while mostly ignoring…
Descriptors: Principals, Correlation, Self Efficacy, Leadership Effectiveness
Barnes, Frank Derek – ProQuest LLC, 2015
Research establishes that a positive relationship exists between principal instructional leadership and student achievement (Brewer, 1993; Eberts and Stone, 1988; Hallinger and Heck, 1998; Leithwood, Seashore Louis, Anderson, and Wahlstrom, 2004). Likewise, research indicates that a principal's ability to influence the purpose and goals of a…
Descriptors: Principals, Professional Development, Management Development, Instructional Leadership
Supovitz, Jonathan – Consortium for Policy Research in Education, 2014
This report examines the educational leadership development system in England over the last 15 years to identify ideas American leaders and policymakers might learn from looking cross-nationally. The report describes the rise of the National College for School Leadership in England, which spearheaded much of the early policy development and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Leadership Training, Professional Development, Instructional Leadership
Tutt, Dana V. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The role of the principal has changed over the years from manager to instructional leader. School principal's responsibilities have increased and are often required to lead educational programs under a growing number of local and federal accountability structures and mandates (Wallace, 2012). With the recent change in the state and local school…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Instructional Leadership, Educational Policy, Alignment (Education)
Hussin, Sufean; Al Abri, Saleh – International Journal of Educational Administration and Policy Studies, 2015
Retraining and upskilling of human resources in organizations are deemed vital whenever a reform takes place, or whenever a huge policy is being implemented on a comprehensive scale. In an education system, officers, principals, and teachers need to be retrained so as to enable them implement and manage new changes, which are manifested in the…
Descriptors: Principals, Educational Change, Professional Development, Management Development
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Gurley, D. Keith; Anast-May, Linda; Lee, H. T. – Education and Urban Society, 2015
This article describes findings from a single-case qualitative study of a unique 2-year professional development academy for practicing assistant principals designed and implemented in partnership between school district personnel and university educational leadership faculty members. The study was conducted based on the theoretical framework of…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Partnerships in Education, Assistant Principals, Program Descriptions
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Talan, Teri N.; Bloom, Paula J.; Kelton, Robyn E. – Early Childhood Research & Practice, 2014
While there is consensus among policymakers and practitioners about the importance of strong leadership in early childhood education, there is scant research on effective models of leadership development for administrators of early childhood programs, particularly those working in the child care sector. This is cause for concern because the…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Capacity Building, Leadership Training, Early Childhood Education
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