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Christopher Scott Grode – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to explore how executive coaches describe the strategies used with their public-school superintendent clients. The theoretical foundation of Positive Psychology, specifically PERMA+4, framed the questioning and brought context to the executive coach's decisions. The lack of research from the…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Teaching Methods, Superintendents, Management Development
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Akhlaq, Muhammad; Sulehri, Shazia Munawar – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2010
The premise of this article is to analyze the managerial skills competencies of secondary schools heads trained through distance mode of education in Pakistan. For this purpose a sample 300 secondary school teachers and 100 secondary schools head-teachers trained through distance mode and working in the Federal Government Educational Institutions…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Open Universities, Secondary Schools, Administrator Effectiveness
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Wallace, Mike – Management Education and Development, 1990
Addresses the coherence of the principles of action learning, the consequences of employing certain variants in school management courses, the implications for action learning of research into effective training, and the need for thorough evaluation. (Author)
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Management Development
Rodriguez, Jerry – 1989
A national model for the training of principals as instructional leaders: the Indiana Principal Leadership Academy is described. The paper includes a statement of vision, an explanation of how the program is operated, a description of the instructional methods employed, and a list of the warranties issued to graduates of the academy. Three other…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education, Excellence in Education, Instructional Leadership
Bloom, Gary S.; Castagna, Claire L.; Moir, Ellen; Warren, Betsy – Corwin Press, 2005
Research shows conclusively that principals and other school leaders are essential to school improvement, and that these individuals benefit from the intensive, contextualized support that a coach or mentor can provide. But how does a coach support a school leader in mastering the professional and emotional challenges of school leadership for a…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Change, Principals, Instructional Leadership
Walker, Doris McEwen – 1995
Indiana University South Bend (IUSB) School Leadership Project has adopted as a central educational strategy, problem based learning and its sub-model, problems of practice, in its program to prepare school leaders. Problems of practice is an active learning model that involves students in taking responsibility for their learning by immersing…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Administrator Education, Certification, College Instruction
Davis, Niki; Rose, Ray – North American Council for Online Learning, 2007
This report examines the types of professional development necessary to implement successful online learning initiatives. The potential for schools utilizing online learning is tremendous: schools can develop new distribution methods to enable equity and access for all students, they can provide high quality content for all students and they can…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Inservice Teacher Education, Misconceptions, School Administration