This presentation shares findings from a qualitative study investigating the following research questions: (1) What impact did the 2016 election have on Opt Out Florida? and (2) What are the leaders' goals during a Trump presidency? In addition to sharing our findings, we build on critical ethnographic data regarding the Opt Out Florida movement…

This paper reports research that investigated how school leaders use micro-political strategies and tactics that promote the retention of high quality early career teachers. It draws on a conceptual framework of retention as an attraction-recruitment-retention triad and a micro-political theoretical framework. A qualitative study was conducted…

Calls for a crisis in community college leadership have been replete over the past 15 years. Now, the impact of the changing of the guard in leadership positions is gaining momentum. Coupled with the exodus of long-serving leaders is a reticence among mid-level leaders in seeking advancement. This paper reports on interviews with cabinet level…

This paper seeks to enrich the conversation on biographical research in education by adding the stories of contemporary union leaders who are seeking to educate their memberships, the communities they serve, and society as a whole. Karen Lewis of the Chicago Teachers Union, Bob Peterson of the Milwaukee Teachers' Education, and Barbara Madeloni of…

This is an historical and comparative paper that examines the importance of women's educational organizations across time and space and the deliberative attempts of individual members to advocate for the expansion of their professional knowledge, expertise and reach. Specifically, the historical spotlight is turned on the International Federation…

Current achievement-based evaluation systems of school leaders have led to deficient methods of assessing the needs of today's schools to develop the next generation of citizens for a postmodern and socially just society. The need to evaluate school leaders performance beyond the narrow framework of student achievement becomes significantly…

What makes a leader in an online learning environment? This question is approached from three angles in this study: online activity, language quality, and social background. This study examines the simulation data of the 2015 GlobalEd 2 Project, which consists of 337 7th and 8th grade students representing 18 countries. The three dimensions were…

This case study examined leadership exercised in detracking restructuring efforts in a large suburban high school, to reduce racial inequities. Theoretical grounding includes Oakes' political, normative, and technical obstacles to detracking and Heifetz's adaptive leadership, where leaders simultaneously surface and attend to competing…