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Pablo Lopez – ProQuest LLC, 2024
A system-wide training program in a large, urban public library system is sought relating to library administration's expectations of branch manager roles in the field while developing library leaders. This study employed a qualitative phenomenological methodology to investigate branch manager perspectives on the needs of front-facing managers and…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Management Development, Urban Areas, Public Libraries
Damore, Sharon J.; Rieckhoff, Barbara Stacy – Journal of Research on Leadership Education, 2021
This study extends previous work and builds upon the use of a prescribed coaching tool in an effort to build the capacity of school leaders in the role of instructional coaches. By using a reflective interview process and structured protocol, the authors present findings to suggest administrators need more intentional training to strengthen their…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Coaching (Performance), Reflection, Supervision
Christina L. Wynn – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Through the lens of the leadership identify development theory (LIDT), this exploratory case study addressed how managers in Northeastern community colleges assessed management readiness and the systems in place for the growth and development of technical employees who move into managerial roles. The study consisted of open-ended interviews with…
Descriptors: Middle Management, Community Colleges, Career Readiness, Management Development
Cirian Villavicencio – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Throughout the United States as well as in California, relatively few Asian American and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) serve in leadership positions in four-year universities. This research uses a qualitative phenomenological approach that examines the lived experiences of AAPI administrators in four-year public and private higher education…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, College Administration, Universities
McCormick Center for Early Childhood Leadership at National Louis University, 2018
Research suggests that many early childhood program administrators enter into leadership roles by being promoted from teaching positions and few have prior education, training, or experience specific to leadership or management (Catron & Groves, 1999; Billman, 1995; Bloom & Rafanello, 1994). Many directors of early care and education…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Leadership Training, Early Childhood Education, Administrator Qualifications
Saglam, Aycan Çiçek; Geçer, Ali; Bag, Derya – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2017
Goal of the study is to compare training and appointing processes of education administrators in developed and developing countries to see similarities and differences and also the situation in Turkey so as to give some suggestion thought to have some positive impacts on training and appointing-related problems of Turkish Education. Within the…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Foreign Countries, Developed Nations, Instructional Leadership
Ryan, Thomas G.; Gallo, Mary – International Journal of Educational Reform, 2011
Leadership succession planning is a means to identify the need for systematic and purposeful change in education. Policy, planning, and research suggest that there is an acute shortage of school leaders globally. By illumination of these facts, we detail and describe what is happening within a Canadian context, and this we argue is similar to what…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Leadership, Principals, Synthesis
Kelsen, Virginia E. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
School principals face an increasing number of professional demands, especially the challenge of improving student achievement. As such, the purpose of this dissertation is to study the effect of leadership coaching on a school principal's responsibilities related to carrying out these demands. Specifically, the researcher examined a subset of…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Principals, Academic Achievement, Coaching (Performance)
Bobbera, Robert L. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The school principal's role is demanding. Responsible for complex systems impacting student learning, the principal must possess knowledge in varied areas of the educational system. Rising from the roots of the teaching principal, the leadership paradigm of modern school principals has evolved over time. With the integration of digital…
Descriptors: Technology Integration, Principals, Capacity Building, Action Research
Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning, 2009
The link among the quality of principals, caliber of teaching, and levels of student achievement is a tight one. School leadership is a key factor in the recruitment and retention of quality teachers; teaching quality, in turn, profoundly influences improvements in student learning and achievement. Yet despite their central role in this equation,…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Principals, Administrator Education, Leadership Training
Woods, Philip A.; Woods, Glenys J.; Cowie, Michael – School Leadership & Management, 2009
This article reports and interprets the findings of a study of headteachers' views and perceptions of continuing professional development (CPD) provision and their ongoing CPD needs and priorities, carried out in 2007 in Scotland, involving headteachers from the primary and secondary sectors. Topic areas in which headteachers generally were most…
Descriptors: Holistic Approach, Foreign Countries, Professional Development, Ethics
DeVillier, Doug – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This qualitative research study used narrative inquiry to explore the assistant principal experiences that contribute to transformational leadership practices in new principals. Eight administrators, who were in their first or second year as a principal, participated in the study. The findings suggested that principals play an important role in…
Descriptors: Transformational Leadership, Leadership, Principals, Assistant Principals
Nunnery, John A.; Ross, Steven M.; Chappell, Shanan; Pribesh, Shana; Hoag-Carhart, Elizabeth – Online Submission, 2011
School leaders are increasingly being asked, whether by rhetoric or policy, to measurably improve student achievement. The resultant need to assist school leaders in their ability to improve teaching and learning for all students in their schools led to the establishment of the National Institute of School Leadership's (NISL's) Executive…
Descriptors: Caring, Academic Achievement, Management Development, Instructional Leadership

Marquardt, Michael J. – Learning Organization, 2000
Today's leaders perform the following roles: systems thinker, change agent, innovator, servant, polychronic coordinator, teacher-mentor, and visionary. The elements of action learning (real problems, teams, reflective inquiry, commitment to action, focus on learning) contribute to the development of these critical skills. (Author/SK)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Experiential Learning, Leadership Training, Management Development
Nunnery, John A.; Yen, Cherng-Jyh; Ross, Steven M. – Online Submission, 2011
The National Institute of School Leadership's (NISL's) Executive Development Program (EDP) was established to provide professional development to school leaders to drive their schools to high performance. The program emphasizes the role of principals as strategic thinkers, instructional leaders, and creators of a just, fair, and caring culture in…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Management Development, Instructional Leadership, Principals