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Mo Wang; Xiumin Hong – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2024
This paper addresses the roles of job position in relation to early childhood leadership (ECL) and school type as a potential moderator of this relationship in China. A sample of 918 research participants, including 149 principals/vice-principals, 108 middle leaders and 661 teachers, was investigated. A three-factor model of ECL including staff…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Leadership Styles, Decision Making, Institutional Characteristics
Danielle Marie Miles – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Education researchers claim collaboration between school district leaders and principals is one of the key factors in successful school districts. Collaboration creates alignment and coherence throughout the organization. Factors that foster this collaboration are limited throughout education literature. This qualitative study explored factors…
Descriptors: School Districts, Educational Cooperation, Principals, Administrator Attitudes
Fred Carlo Andersen; Gunn Vedøy; Erlend Dehlin – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2025
This study examines how six principals in Norwegian adult education centres (AECs) navigate and make sense of and navigate the multifaceted and uncertain environment in which they act. Specifically, the study aims to explore the significance of improvisation and positioning in the principals' day-to-day decision-making and leadership as they…
Descriptors: Municipalities, Adult Education, Principals, Foreign Countries
Shaunna Pierrelee – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Research on effective collaborative relationships between district leaders and school principals have shown to exhibit characteristics that positively impact student achievement. Characteristics such as reciprocal communication, shared decision making, intensive support, and quality professional learning opportunities are repeated in literature.…
Descriptors: Cooperation, School Districts, Administrators, Principals
Sunday Vetrovec Dominguez – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Principal self-efficacy is crucial to educational leadership, especially in instructional and operational areas, as found in this study. The study examines how principals maintain self-efficacy despite their many responsibilities, drawing on Bandura and Schunk's (1981) research on human behavior and belief and perception. Bandura and Adams (1977)…
Descriptors: Principals, Self Efficacy, Instructional Leadership, Operations Research
Silberstein, Katherine; Roza, Marguerite; Tollefson, Jordan – Edunomics Lab, 2022
Deciding how to spend the nation's education dollars is a tremendous responsibility. It's easy to forget that this responsibility falls primarily to district leaders (sometimes with input from principals). Sometimes those decisions go well and schools beat the odds on student outcomes. Other times, they do not, and student outcomes lag. Sometimes…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education, Money Management, Educational Finance
Brenda Ocampo – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Latinx multilingual learners historically have struggled with meeting academic proficiencies within our educational system. Districts have implemented many strategies to support multilingual learners but have often fallen short of expectations, and therefore perpetuated academic struggles for Latinx multilingual learners. Considering that Latinx…
Descriptors: Principals, Multilingualism, Bilingual Students, Elementary Schools
Pashiardis, Petros; Brauckmann-Sajkiewicz, Stefan – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2022
The main thrust of this paper is to explore factors from the business sector, which could inspire school leaders in terms of issue/problem formulation during their decision-making process. This conceptual paper examines diachronically and conceptually the issues of uncertainty, not only in terms of context and decision-making, but also having in…
Descriptors: Leadership, Leadership Qualities, Decision Making, Business
Shenhav, Shmuel; Geffon, Ayal; Salomon, Laya; Glanz, Jeffrey – International Journal of Educational Reform, 2021
This mixed methodology study explored the reasons that teachers in Israel are motivated to become school leaders, and the relative importance of the different discouraging factors that worked against such interest. A cross-national Israeli survey included 39 individual interviews, 2 focus groups of 25 teachers each, and a questionnaire completed…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Leadership Role, Jews, Judaism
Krista Bixler; Marjorie Ceballos – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2025
Instructional leadership is a complex dimension, which requires that principals possess expertise in goal setting, leading the instructional program, and creating the conditions for a successful school environment. Effective instructional leaders manage the instructional program by planning, coordinating, and evaluating the work of teachers and…
Descriptors: Principals, Instructional Leadership, Artificial Intelligence, Educational Technology
Oltman, Gretchen; Bautista, Vicki – ASCD, 2021
In this book, Gretchen Oltman and Vicki Bautista walk you through the eight steps necessary to craft a personal leadership philosophy: a reflective explanation of the leadership style, core values, mindset, and real-life experiences that make you the leader you are today. When you can authentically tell your story, your school community will know…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Leadership Effectiveness, School Administration, Principals
Mary F. Jones; Julie Dallavis – Journal of Educational Administration, 2024
Purpose: Research shows data-informed leadership matters for school improvement and student achievement, but less is known about what motivates leaders' data use toward such outcomes, particularly in the Catholic school context. Design/methodology/approach: This qualitative interview study uses interview (n = 23) data from a sample of Catholic…
Descriptors: Data Use, Educational Improvement, Catholic Schools, Instructional Leadership
Nordholm, Daniel; Wermke, Wieland; Jarl, Maria – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2023
The aim of this article is to explore how Swedish principals experienced the decentralisation and re-centralisation reforms and how they affected principals' autonomy and decision-making capacity. Data were obtained from three surveys of Swedish principals, carried out in 2005, 2012 and 2019. The results show that principals experienced a high…
Descriptors: Principals, Educational History, Professional Autonomy, Decision Making
Öz, Ömer; Arastaman, Gökhan – Participatory Educational Research, 2022
Data usage-related reforms lead schools to different practices in terms of management. The conceptualization of data usage and data-based management will ensure that robust steps are taken for the future in terms of reforms made or to be made in the name of education. In this direction, this study is developed as a qualitative case study to…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Attitudes, School Administration, Data Use
Tamir, Emanuel; Arar, Khalid – International Journal of Educational Management, 2019
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine considerations employed in decision-making processes by Israeli high school leaders, when implementing the "Courage to Change" reform. The reform gave schools large supplementary resources in the form of "weekly instruction time" and they decided how to exploit these additional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High Schools, Resource Allocation, Decision Making