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Romina Madrid Miranda; Felipe Aravena; Ana Cristina Prado de Oliveira; Clelia Pineda-Báez – Professional Development in Education, 2025
This study examines current approaches to professional development (PD) for school leaders in Brazil, Chile, and Colombia. While PD programs indicate significant progress, school leadership remains in an early stage of development. The findings highlight the need for national policy commitments to ensure long-term sustainability. The challenge is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professional Development, Administrators, National Standards
Linda F. Nathan; Taarini Goyal; Evonne Alvarez – Phi Delta Kappan, 2025
Providing professional development to busy principals is an ongoing challenge for many school districts. Lynn Public Schools in Massachusetts and the nonprofit Center for Artistry and Scholarship (CAS) in Boston partnered to provide professional development to 16 principals in the district. Linda F. Nathan, Taarini Goyal, and Evonne Alvarez…
Descriptors: Principals, Professional Development, Program Effectiveness, Coaching (Performance)
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Jensen, Ruth – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2022
Research on the professional development of school leadership often highlights the value of partnerships across institutions. Increasingly, partnership has been labeled boundary work. However, few empirical studies have been conducted on school leaders' professional development as boundary work. The aim is to contribute empirical insight into the…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Leadership, Foreign Countries, Partnerships in Education
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Shore, Rebecca; Morris, Debra; Watson, Jim; La Serna, Jillian J. – PDS Partners: Bridging Research to Practice, 2021
This article details the creation and features of the Aspiring Principals Program, an intentional, mutually beneficial partnership between the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools.
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Partnerships in Education, Principals, Administrator Education
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Susanne Sahlin – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2025
A growing body of research has emphasised the importance of school leadership for quality improvement in schools, which reinforces the importance of school leaders' continuous professional development in working life. However, less is known about the professional development of experienced principals. Against this background, the purpose of this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Management Development, Courses
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Gregg B. Dionne; Kaleb G. Patrick; Raymond Francis; Mark E. Deschaine; Katie Sloan – Journal of Research on Leadership Education, 2024
As the complex responsibilities of principals and teachers expand, the need for effective professional development (PD) is greater than ever. This quantitative study examines the PD needs of schools and the relationship between PK-12 and Institutions of Higher Education (IHEs), as perceived by principals, identifying areas for collaboration.…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
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Wepner, Shelley B.; Gómez, Diane W.; Quatroche, Diana – Excelsior: Leadership in Teaching and Learning, 2021
The success of school-university partnerships depends on the leadership. This qualitative study reports on school-based leaders (SBAs) as critical stakeholders in the collaborative process of forming viable partnerships with colleges and universities. It describes SBAs' responsibilities as partners, motivation for forming their partnerships,…
Descriptors: Leadership, Administrator Attitudes, College School Cooperation, Partnerships in Education
Fusarelli, Bonnie C.; Fusarelli, Lance D. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2023
Principal leadership is a crucial element in high-performing schools. Research reveals that principals are second only to teachers in impacting student achievement at school. Accordingly, how school leaders are prepared has received increasing attention in recent years. Drawing from the findings of recent reports highlighting exemplary programs…
Descriptors: Principals, Instructional Leadership, Leadership Qualities, Administrator Education
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Glaés-Coutts, Lena; Nilsson, Henrik – Improving Schools, 2021
When Sweden began to experience a steady decline in student achievement results in PISA and TIMMS, the Swedish National Agency of Education initiated a model of collaboration with Swedish universities aimed at providing support to schools with falling student achievement scores. In this article, we examine how such projects can work at the local…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Foreign Countries, College School Cooperation, Teachers
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Aprille Phillips; Michael Teahon; Chelsea Feusner; Elizabeth Ericson – Journal of Research on Leadership Education, 2024
This qualitative study explores the early implementation of a university school leadership preparation program and school district collaborative effort to develop school leaders and sustain leadership capacity in nine rural school districts. Emerging findings drawn from survey, focus-group, and participant observation data include (a) the…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Instructional Leadership, Capacity Building, Program Implementation
Honig, Meredith I.; Rainey, Lydia R. – Harvard Education Press, 2020
"Supervising Principals for Instructional Leadership" specifies the conditions that district leaders can implement to help principal supervisors take a teaching and learning approach to their work. In particular, Meredith I. Honig and Lydia R. Rainey explore how these supervisors can most effectively support principals in becoming…
Descriptors: Principals, Supervision, Instructional Leadership, Supervisors
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Jones, Christopher – School Community Journal, 2022
The argument for the importance of a parent's engagement with their child's learning over parental involvement with their child's school has been shown to be valuable in research literature. This study, conducted in England prior to the global COVID-19 pandemic, therefore aimed to understand how school leaders and their staff understand parental…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Role, Parent School Relationship, Attitudes
Region 4 Comprehensive Center, 2023
School leadership is a critical factor in school improvement. The Delaware Department of Education (DDOE) and Region 4 Comprehensive Center (R4CC) have strengthened school leadership through implementation of the Delaware Leadership Network and the Delaware Principal Supervisor Leadership Program. These two major efforts, collaboratively designed…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Instructional Leadership, Principals, Supervision
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Kate Kennedy; Jeff Walls – RAND Corporation, 2024
In the United States, student social-emotional well-being has become a priority because of concerning mental health and well-being outcomes for adolescent youth. High schools and school districts have responded by expanding mental health and social-emotional supports. However, there is little research to understand the ways in which educational…
Descriptors: High School Students, High School Teachers, Principals, School Districts
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Johnson, Arvin D.; Clegorne, Nicholas; Croft, Sheryl J.; Ford, Angela Y. – Journal of Research on Leadership Education, 2021
The purpose of this qualitative research was to identify the preparation needs of principals through the lens of school superintendents in the southeastern United States. This research was based on a collaborative university, multi-school district partnership. Superintendents were interviewed to determine their perceptions regarding the…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Education, Superintendents, Administrator Attitudes
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