Purpose: With widespread concerns around the funding and availability of care and education during early childhood, this article takes a social psychological approach to exploring some of the dilemmas facing early childhood leaders. Design/methodology/approach: The study uses an interpretivist, qualitative approach involving semi-structured…

Two articles explore how education leaders influence the education system to empower and enhance the wellbeing of students experiencing poverty. Recognizing that poverty is a wicked problem (Head, 2008) that requires complexification (Joosse & Teisman, 2021), I use the capability approach (Sen, 1990, 1999,2009) extended empowerment dimensions…

Systems coaches provide support to teams responsible for improving the implementation of schoolwide service delivery framework such as multitiered system of supports (MTSS). This article first summarizes key findings about what systems coaching is, the goal systems coaches work toward, who these coaches support, and what systems coaches do. The…

The contemporary university has its place amid a world in total motion. The issue arises, then, as to what it is it to try to shape a university in the context of a world that lacks stability. The thesis argued here is twofold: (1) that the university should take seriously its entwinement with the world; indeed, with large eco-systems of the…

The goal of this study was to learn how school leaders in a complex adaptive system that is a suburban public high school influenced a process of adaptive change to the instructional core and how they were influenced by the process. For many years, U.S. public school leaders have faced challenges from the rapid pace of change in their internal and…

Public education has evolved throughout the years, whereas traditional school settings focused on students sitting quietly in the classroom waiting for instructions from their teachers who orchestrated the lessons and procedures for running the classroom. Although student voice always existed, it was often overlooked. For the most part, emphasis…

Readiness for change is a multi-dimensional, multi-level, multifaceted construct. Readiness is arguably one of the most important factors involved in individuals' initial support for change initiatives. Organizational readiness for change is a critical precursor to successful change implementation. There is voluminous literature on organizational…

System leadership continues to be constructed largely as a desirable, even normative, evolution of educational leadership, with critiques often focusing on implementation rather than principles. This belies its increasingly recognised role in processes of disintermediation, in which the 'middle tier' comprising local government is dismantled. In…

We review existing definitions of "educational technology leadership" in China and find definitions that emphasize individual capability, the executive ability of leaders, or the understanding of a technical process. Educational technology leadership in China is often studied separately from the complex environments in which it is…

This article presents and discusses the findings from five principals about their experiences of using systems thinking approach to school development. This was an ethnographic multiple case study that was conducted in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Literature demonstrates the efficacies of using systems thinking as an approach in dealing with…

Campuses have never had such an intense focus on health promotion as they do at present as we work toward a post-pandemic future. This article examines the evolution of approaches from a student-centric focus to a systems approach, tracing the history of health promotion on Canadian campuses. Universities have evolved from the initial attempts at…

The articles in the current special issue advance the literature on Tier 2 in the crucial area of discussing adaptations to existing Tier 2 interventions to enhance positive student outcomes. Adaptation is common practice in school settings. Thus, setting up recommendations, or embedding guiding principles for how to successfully adapt Tier 2…

The Region 15 Comprehensive Center (R15CC) is federally funded to provide high-impact, customized, and responsive capacity-building technical assistance to state educational agencies (SEAs) in Arizona, California, Nevada, and Utah. In 2022, R15CC established a regional Family and Community Engagement (FACE) Collaborative for SEA leaders in…

Learning analytics (LA) has demonstrated great potential in improving teaching quality, learning experience and administrative efficiency. However, the adoption of LA in higher education is often beset by challenges in areas such as resources, stakeholder buy-in, ethics and privacy. Addressing these challenges in a complex system requires agile…

These three authors have led and studied coaching across diverse settings and with educators at multiple levels, from classroom teachers to district and state leaders, and have observed that the need for a more strategic approach is a common theme. They draw on implementation science research to describe how to improve coaching across educational…