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Direct linkLokman Mohd Tahir; Ahmad Marzuki Mohammed; Mohammed Borhandden Musah; Ani Suryani Mohammad; Mohd Fadzli Ali – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2024
This study investigates teachers' perceptions on PLC implementation within religious-based secondary schools in the context of Malaysia. Using a pragmatic mixed-method approach, quantitative data were obtained from 610 teachers about principals' implementation and support for PLC implementation. Then, 16 senior teachers who have successfully…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, Religious Schools, Teacher Attitudes
Leffler, Eva – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2020
Entrepreneurship in school is a widespread issue within the school system and it is therefore important to problematise teachers and their role when entrepreneurship is emphasized in their school practice. The teachers in this study, from the secondary and upper secondary levels, were all participating in a Swedish three-year school improvement…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Program Implementation, School Effectiveness, Educational Improvement
Gherardi, Stacy – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2020
Educational success stories are powerful tools that shape the decisions of policymakers. This study explores the ways in which these stories are crafted and how they differ among various educational stakeholders. Using administrator and teacher interviews from a school district which earned accolades for implementation of a 1:1 laptop program,…
Descriptors: Success, Teacher Attitudes, Administrator Attitudes, Laptop Computers
Zala-Mezö, Enikö; Bormann, Inka; Strauss, Nina-Cathrin; Müller-Kuhn, Daniela – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2020
In this paper we connect the concepts of distributed leadership (DL) and educational change by asking: How do different practices of DL relate to change in schools? We answer this question by studying 12 schools in Switzerland during the implementation of the "Education for Sustainable Development" concept. In an embedded mixed methods…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Leadership Styles
Stern, Rebecca – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2016
This qualitative study explored educators' sense making of and responses to No Child Left Behind and the Common Core State Standards at one urban Expeditionary Learning middle school. Sense-making theory (Spillane, Reiser, & Reimer, 2002) and inquiry as stance (Cochran-Smith & Lytle, 2009) were used as complementary conceptual frameworks…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Response, Educational Legislation
Buttram, Joan L.; Farley-Ripple, Elizabeth N. – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2016
The purpose of this article is to identify how principals shape the adoption and implementation of professional learning communities. The study employed a sequential mixed-methods approach in which interviews, observations, and document analysis informed survey design. Teachers were surveyed in four elementary schools about the practices and…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Principals, Adoption (Ideas), Program Implementation
