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Giraldo-García, Regina J.; Orozco, Luis E. – Journal of Research on Leadership Education, 2023
This study used a mixed-methods explanatory design and Mezirow's transformative learning theory to explore the experiences of new school principals in a professional development leadership program and its influence on their self-efficacy as leaders in a Midwestern urban K-12 school district. Surveys, semi-structured interviews, reflection notes,…
Descriptors: Beginning Principals, Administrator Education, Leadership Training, Leadership Role
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Lochmiller, Chad R. – Journal of Research on Leadership Education, 2014
This article presents results from a study of leadership coaches who worked with novice principals in a university-based induction program for a 3-year period. The qualitative case study describes how the support the coaches provided to the novice principals changed over time. The study reveals that coaches adapted their leadership coaching…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Leadership Training, Beginning Principals, Novices
Howley, Aimee; Chadwick, Kristine; Howley, Caitlin – 2002
Mentorship programs are a promising approach to the professional development needs of new principals. The Southeastern Regional Principals' Academy provides professional development and collegial support for early-career principals in the primarily rural schools of southeast Ohio. For its 1999-2001 pilot program, 19 principals were organized into…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Beginning Principals, Collegiality, Elementary Secondary Education
Heaton, Lisa A.; Washington, Lisa A. – 1999
New standards in the state of Virginia are being instituted to require that professional development programs for pre-service principals include experience with technology. This study was designed to identify relevant topics that should be part of that experience. Surveys and interviews were used to gather information from in-service principals…
Descriptors: Beginning Principals, Computer Literacy, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Administration
Lindley, Frederick A. – 2003
Intended for the beginning principal and the principal's mentor, this book explores the duties in the principal's first year on the job from the viewpoint of both the principal and the mentor. It emphasizes organization during the first-year principalship; tasks to be accomplished each month; leading versus managing and how both can benefit the…
Descriptors: Administrator Effectiveness, Administrator Guides, Beginning Principals, Collegiality
Lambert, Linda – 2003
This book is intended to enable educators to more fully implement the concept of leadership capacity in schools and districts. It begins by outlining the five major prerequisites for high leadership capacity: (1) skillful participation in the work of leadership; (2) inquiry-based use of data to inform decisions and practices; (3) broad involvement…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Beginning Principals, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education