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Jeff Walls – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2023
Recent studies of caring school leadership have focused on the way that caring leaders support teachers and influence the school environment. Though caring is understood improve educational outcomes, questions about the interpersonal and organizational enactment can lead to significant disagreements--micropolitical contests. Using case study data,…
Descriptors: Caring, School Personnel, Principals, Middle Schools
Chitpin, Stephanie – International Journal of Educational Management, 2020
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to know the extent to which a decision-making framework assists in providing holistic, comprehensive descriptions of strategies used by school leaders engaging with distributed leadership practices. The process by which principals and other education leaders interact various school-based actors to arrive at a…
Descriptors: Participative Decision Making, Power Structure, Educational Strategies, Principals
Rashad, Kaleb – ProQuest LLC, 2018
We are experiencing powerful and exponential shifts in our economy (Schwab, 2015), marked by rapid advancements in automation, information technology, and robotics (Ford, 2016) and the displacement of millions of Americans in the middle class (Goldin & Katz, 2008; Keeley, 2015; Pew Research Center, 2015). Our current education paradigm is…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Principals, Administrator Behavior, Teacher Attitudes
Clarke, Simon; Dempster, Neil – Professional Development in Education, 2020
This paper's commentary is guided by Gramsci's distinction between, on one hand, the pessimism of the intellect and, on the other, optimism of the will. Accordingly, we seek initially to convey some of the intractable challenges that tend to be encountered by school leaders in the contemporary education context. In doing so, we argue that these…
Descriptors: Leadership Qualities, Leadership Training, Professional Development, Instructional Leadership
Sunaengsih, Cucun; Anggarani, Mayang; Amalia, Mia; Nurfatmala, Silmaulan; Naelin, Syifa Diana – Elementary School Forum (Mimbar Sekolah Dasar), 2019
This research aims at describing the implementation of effective school management based on the principal leadership in one of Public Primary Schools in Sumedang Regency, West Java, Indonesia. The principal who implemented effective school management had the potential to produce high-achieving young generation because the school scope could…
Descriptors: Principals, School Administration, Leadership Effectiveness, Public Schools
Milman, Natalie B. – Journal of School Leadership, 2020
This qualitative case study examined school leaders' roles, perceptions, and challenges leading a one-to-one (1:1) laptop initiative in a coeducational, independent middle, and high school in the United States. The findings revealed how the school leaders led the school's 1:1 laptop initiative through collaborative, yet differentiated roles and…
Descriptors: School Administration, Principals, Laptop Computers, Technology Integration
Yildirim, Nuray; Turan, Selahattin – Educational Administration: Theory & Practice, 2020
The purpose of this study is to analyze the pluralistic leadership behaviours of school principals in the Turkish educational context. The exploratory design was used in this study, which employs the first qualitative, and then quantitative data collection methods. The sample of the study was determined using the maximum variation sampling…
Descriptors: Leadership Qualities, Leadership Styles, Participative Decision Making, Principals
Rubinstein, Saul A. – American Educator, 2014
For most of the past decade, this author has studied union-management efforts to improve public education, and has witnessed extraordinary examples of teachers, union leaders, and administrators working together to improve teaching and learning. In this article, seven case studies on collaborative partnerships between teachers' unions and…
Descriptors: Unions, Labor Relations, Teacher Administrator Relationship, Motivation
Hanson, Thomas; Polik, Jeff; Cerna, Rebeca – Regional Educational Laboratory West, 2017
An activity for eliciting student involvement in collaborative decision-making and problem-solving with adults--the student listening circle workshop--is examined for the first time through an experimental study of its effects on participating students. A student listening circle is a facilitated focus group in which students articulate to adults…
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Problem Solving, Workshops, Listening Skills
Singh, Kathryn – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2012
Today, more than ever, teachers must work effectively and efficiently to meet seemingly contradictory demands placed on them by society. On the one hand, school personnel are tasked with attaining and publicly reporting high levels of student achievement in response to No Child Left Behind. On the other, school personnel must ensure that students…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Federal Legislation, Teacher Leadership, Instructional Leadership
Singh, Kathryn – Kappa Delta Pi Record, 2011
Though principals play an important role in setting the vision for a school, and moving their staffs toward that vision, it is increasingly apparent that teachers must take on active decision-making and problem-solving roles. By sharing these responsibilities, schools can tap into the expertise of those most in tune with teaching and learning, and…
Descriptors: Expertise, Teacher Leadership, Instructional Leadership, Principals
Carey, Robin J. – AASA Journal of Scholarship & Practice, 2012
The author's purpose for this article is to examine the use of the Response to Intervention (RtI) framework to meet the needs of a continuum of learners, from those who most struggle to those in need of advanced educational opportunities. Through classroom observations, teacher interviews, and dialogue with the site-based Problem-Solving Team,…
Descriptors: Gifted, Focus Groups, Response to Intervention, Case Studies
Ciabattini, David; Custer, Timothy J. – Principal Leadership, 2008
Monkeys are the problems that need solutions, the tasks that need to be accomplished, the decisions that need to be made, and the actions that need to be taken. According to a theory, people carry monkeys around on their backs until they can successfully shift their burden to someone else and the monkey leaps from one back to the next. Managers…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Principals, Problem Solving, Decision Making
Fennell, Hope-Arlene – Journal of Women in Educational Leadership, 2008
This article describes the leadership journey of Kathryn, an educational leader, in relation to current research on women's experiences as educational leaders. This life history was developed as a grounded theory (Glaser & Strauss, 1967) study. Conducted over a two-year period, the semi-structured interviews used to conduct the study were…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Females, Interviews, Transformational Leadership

Hetzel, Robert W. – NASSP Bulletin, 1992
To avoid bad decisions, principals must be willing to invest time, energy, and resources and prepare the problem-solving team for the frustrations involved in tackling tough problems. Simple probing techniques such as "creating (or intensifying) the problem,""the Five Whys""I wish" statements, the nominal Group Technique, and multivoting can aid…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Elementary Secondary Education, Leadership Responsibility, Participative Decision Making
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