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Angel X. Bohannon; Cynthia E. Coburn; James P. Spillane – American Educational Research Journal, 2024
Calls for evidence-based practice are pervasive. In response, extensive scholarship has employed four categories of research use--instrumental, symbolic, conceptual, and imposed--to examine how research is used in schools and districts. We draw on sociocultural learning theory and empirical data from one school district to newly theorize latent…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Professional Development, Leaders, Research Tools
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Blake, Caroline; Fielding, Mark – International Journal of Mentoring and Coaching in Education, 2023
Purpose: There is a significant volume of literature relating to the mentoring needs of new principals and vice/deputy principals, but little is known about the mentoring needs of recently appointed middle leaders in an educational setting. This study explored the mentoring needs of five female middle leaders at a K-12 case study school of 550…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Leaders, Novices
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Jerry Burkett; Sonya D. Hayes – School Leadership Review, 2023
Effective school leaders are essential to the success of the school environment. Teachers have left schools due to poor and ineffective campus leadership, but often do not report the reasons why they left or do not have a safe mechanism in place to support their claims and drive campus change. The purpose of this qualitative study is to understand…
Descriptors: Leaders, Leadership Effectiveness, Teacher Attitudes, Elementary School Teachers
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Chris Brown; Ruth Luzmore; Richard O'Donovan; Grace Ji; Susmita Patnaik – International Journal of Educational Management, 2024
Purpose: Educators need to engage in continuous learning to ensure that their knowledge and practice responds to the changing needs of society and students. Collaborative approaches, in which social capital resource is exchanged, can serve as an effective way of facilitating such learning. With this systematic review, the authors identify the…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Secondary Schools, Leaders, Interschool Communication
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Lee, Joey A.; McLoughlin, Gabriella M.; Welk, Gregory J. – Journal of School Nursing, 2022
The U.S. Department of Agriculture Final Rule on School Wellness Policy requires schools to self-evaluate wellness policies and environments. To understand the utility of this information, this study evaluates the validity of school-reported wellness information against directly observed data. Wellness leaders at 10 Midwestern elementary schools…
Descriptors: Wellness, Elementary Schools, Educational Environment, Leaders
Kara Grasser – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Public schools in the United States are prone to crises that can have major effects on the student, parents, teachers, and school community (Smith & Riley, 2012). In addition to all school leaders in the country experiencing the COVID-19 crisis, others also experienced crises related to extreme weather, wildfires, and weapons offenses. Through…
Descriptors: Emergency Programs, Leaders, Public Schools, Elementary Schools
Mary C. Rountree – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this study was to gain insight into how elementary school leaders work collaboratively to foster Science of Reading instructional strategies to enhance early literacy. A multiple case study design was implemented whereby six elementary schools in the metro Birmingham area were purposely selected based on their documented increases…
Descriptors: Literacy, School Effectiveness, Elementary Schools, Leaders
Gayle Warmbrodt – ProQuest LLC, 2023
At the local research site, school leaders face high teacher attrition rates resulting in teaching positions being filled with less experienced teachers, a redistribution of teachers to other classrooms, an increase in class sizes and resources being redirected to address disruptions to learning. Nationally, the ratio of teacher hires to teacher…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Student Needs, Barriers, Social Support Groups
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Evthokia Stephanie Saclarides – Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 2024
This case explores Coach Rosa's efforts to gain access to teachers' classrooms to support teaching and learning. As Rosa demonstrates, working to gain access is a complex coaching practice and coaches cannot assume that their classroom access at any school is universal. School leaders, including district administrators, principals, coaches, and…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), School Culture, Classroom Observation Techniques, Teacher Evaluation
Daniella Phillips – ProQuest LLC, 2023
School choice draws upon market principles for restructuring education as schools compete for student enrollment by appealing to parents. When parents hold the power to choose where--among several options--to enroll their child for learning, they will select the school that best meets their child's academic and social-emotional needs (Cooper,…
Descriptors: Leaders, Elementary Schools, Magnet Schools, Attitudes
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Lei Mee Thien; Seong Teng Chuah; Mei Peng Low – European Journal of Education, 2024
This study aims to examine which middle leaders' distributed leadership factors (cohesive leadership team, participative decision-making, leadership support and leadership supervision) are sufficient and to what degree these four factors are necessary for fostering high teacher commitment to change (TCTC). Data were gathered from 1018 Malaysian…
Descriptors: Middle Management, Power Structure, Participative Decision Making, Change Strategies
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Andy Markwick; Michael J. Reiss – International Journal of Science Education, 2024
The worrying decline in the status of primary school science in schools in England has been linked to low teacher confidence in teaching science and to schools being heavily focused on achievement in English and mathematics. This article reports on a novel professional learning strategy that was provided for 23 primary science leaders over five…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Self Efficacy, Teacher Leadership, Faculty Development
Autumn Barnes, Contributor; Adina Cooper, Contributor; Marci Hertz, Contributor; Kesha Hudson, Contributor; Sarah Lee, Contributor; Sandra Leonard, Contributor; Bailee Peralto, Contributor; Mary Schauer, Contributor; Katy Suellentrop, Contributor; Jorge Verlenden, Contributor; Natalie Wilkins, Contributor; Camara Wooten, Contributor; Anna Yaros, Contributor – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2023
This action guide was designed for school administrators in kindergarten through 12th grade schools (K-12), including principals and leaders of school-based student support teams, to identify evidence-based strategies, approaches, and practices that can positively influence students' mental health. This action guide describes six in-school…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Elementary Schools, Early Childhood Education, Middle Schools
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Crawford, Kathleen M.; Wells, Pamela; McBrayer, Juliann Sergi; Dickens, Kristen N.; Fallon, Katherine – School Leadership Review, 2022
The purpose of this study was to better understand how the current COVID-19 global health pandemic has professionally and emotionally impacted elementary-level teachers. Teachers experienced diverse challenges during this unprecedented time with a rapid shift from in-person to online learning. Two overarching themes emerged based on participant…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Teaching Experience, Pandemics, COVID-19
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Kate E. Connor; Amber B. Ray; Richard A. Price – Journal of School Leadership, 2025
The purpose of this qualitative study was to gain insights from educational leaders who had participated in a larger study and received extensive practice-based professional development on an evidence-based practice, self-regulated strategy development for informative writing. The participants also previously implemented the self-regulated…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Faculty Development, Evidence Based Practice, Self Management
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