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Gonzales, Miguel M.; Roberts, Maria – Journal of School Leadership, 2022
Although the position of the assistant principal is crucial in providing experiences necessary to become an effective school leader, the research on the leadership development of the assistant principal has been largely understudied. This study examines the skills, characteristics, and leadership development of assistant principals within an…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Assistant Principals, School Administration, Administrator Characteristics
Balikçi, Abdullah – Online Submission, 2021
Technology increases its impact in every aspect of life. Because technology is a multidimensional concept, it can be defined in different ways. Simsek & Akin (2013) define the concept as the whole of the techniques that people use in their interaction with their environment. Technology has an impact on education as in other fields. Filho,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, School Administration
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Ng, Ashley Yoon-Mooi – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2017
This paper examines the preparation of school principals in Malaysia, and the aspiration of the Malaysian Education Blueprint 2013-2025 to ensure high-performing school leaders in every school. It reports on the principal preparatory programme, the National Professional Qualification for Educational Leaders, which is mandatory to those who aspire…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Administration, Administrator Education, Principals
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Syed, Sarosh – Journal of Staff Development, 2015
This article describes a novel effort in New York City, the Learning Partners Program, which matches veteran principals with two or more newer ones. In 2014-15, the first full year of the effort, the city's Department of Education put 73 of the city's more than 1,800 schools into 23 groups of threes and one group of four. Every group comprised one…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Coaching (Performance), Mentors, Partnerships in Education
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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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Enomoto, Ernestine K. – Planning and Changing, 2012
Given rural school administrators' challenges and the need to support their leadership development, this qualitative study describes how one rural school district delivered professional development through a university-school partnership to prepare its assistant principals for their work. Methods: Eight assistant principals from nine schools…
Descriptors: Assistant Principals, Management Development, Rural Schools, School Administration
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Earley, Peter; Weindling, Dick; Bubb, Sara; Glenn, Meli – School Leadership & Management, 2009
The recruitment and retention of senior school leaders is high on the UK Government's agenda with much attention currently being given to succession planning. Future Leaders and other fast track leadership development programmes are, in part, a response to this "crisis" brought about by demographic change--many headteachers are due to…
Descriptors: Management Development, Leadership Training, Recruitment, Personnel Management
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.; 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
Hersey, Paul W. – School Administrator, 1986
The National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP) Assessment Center Project expects to have 53 comprehensive centers in operation by June 1986. Behavior modeling is the training strategy for professional development, and research has confirmed that the process can help predict who will be a successful administrator. (MLF)
Descriptors: Administrator Evaluation, Assessment Centers (Personnel), Assistant Principals, Leadership Training
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Gorton, Richard – NASSP Bulletin, 1987
Provides four steps that principals can follow to maximize the leadership position of assistant principals. The principal is the key to improving the assistant principal's position. (MD)
Descriptors: Assistant Principals, Elementary Secondary Education, Leadership, Leadership Training
Lovely, Suzette – Thrust for Educational Leadership, 1999
Through a structured "grow your own" model, the Capistrano Unified School District in California is focusing on developing leaders from within. Strong teachers with leadership potential are actively recruited to enter the administrative arena as elementary-teaching assistant principals. Assistant principals are given principal-level…
Descriptors: Assistant Principals, Elementary Education, Leadership Training, Management Development
Nunnery, John A.; Ross, Steven M.; Yen, Cherng-jyh – Online Submission, 2010
This study examined the impact of NISL's [National Institute for School Leadership's] Executive Development Program for principals on student achievement in Pennsylvania schools between 2006-2009. Roughly half of the NISL-trained principals started the program during the 2007 school year and completed it in the 2008 school year, whereas the other…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Elementary Schools, High Schools, Academic Achievement
Lauer, Linonel – 1975
To meet the need for administrators from minority populations, the Philadelphia School District developed an administrator training program. The program developed a personnel pool of trainees including doctoral degree candidates and vice-principals working toward certification. Administrative internships were part of the training program. Fifty…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Assistant Principals, Certification, Credentials
Daresh, John C.; Male, Trevor – 2001
It is generally accepted that effective principals make for effective schools. In the United Kingdom, the key player providing needed intelligence, vision, energy, and thinking is called the headteacher. The issue considered broadly in this paper is educational leadership in the UK. It addresses the critical role of the headteacher and how to…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Assistant Principals, Beginning Principals, Elementary Secondary Education
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