How our schools are structured plays an important role in facilitating innovation. Transforming the field to best benefit students depends upon an organizational evolution.

Emblematic of democratic principles and composed of diverse people and cultures, the California community colleges are a confederation of 114 accredited campuses. Accreditation is a quality assurance conventionalism reflective of American values and ideologies and provides a stamp of approval to ensure public confidence in the virtues of the…

The purpose of this study was to examine if faculty trust in the principal mediates the impact of initiating structure and consideration on student achievement. Using social capital theory, the study focused on principals-teachers' relationships built on trust as a mediator of this impact since good schools tend to function well as a system of…

The purpose of this qualitative research study was to explore effective methods for student engagement and the overall impact student voice had on student achievement and school culture within the secondary (9-12) educational setting. The researchers sought to identify methods of student engagement to facilitate student voice and determine if…

This article presents a transcript of an interview with Eric Addae-Kyeremeh, a Senior Lecturer in Leadership and Management and a Chartered Fellow of both The Chartered Management Institute and BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT. He is currently the Associate Head of School Innovation in the School of Education, Childhood, Youth and Sport with…

Leadership matters in the engagement and achievement of students. Much of the research in this area has emanated from western contexts and there is a growing demand for research and knowledge generated from emerging areas of the world. This qualitative study through the use of narratives, examines the experiences of three female secondary school…

In recent years, much emphasis has been placed on student outcomes on high stakes summative assessments. This call for accountability has forced educators to look critically at themselves and their schools to determine what they can do to improve the outcomes (Suber, 2011). Generally, in the United States, schools with high percentages of poor…

This study investigates the leadership and decision-making approaches of two Senior Student Affairs Officers. Through in-depth qualitative data analysis and findings from participant interviews, conclusions were developed regarding how the participants' approaches to leadership are similar to "phronetic" leadership. "Phronetic"…

Higher education continues to face evolving challenges related to educating students and engaging in research. These challenges include changing funding models, increasing demands for service and accountability for student outcomes, and increasing scrutiny from stakeholders. One way to address these challenges is by studying the role of leaders…

Leadership has long been criticized for operating under a normative White, male lens that ignores the relationship between racial identity and leadership (Bordas, 2012; Hernandez, 201; Nevarez & Wood, 2007). This becomes especially problematic when considering the tremendous diversity within the Latinx community. Additionally, an Afro-Latinxs'…

This correlational study sought to determine the relationship between advisor servant leadership behaviors and first-year students' intent to persist from fall 2016 to spring 2017 and from spring 2017 to fall 2017 with students in a private, four-year, religiously affiliated university in the United States. The research was grounded in Tinto's…

The introduction of the virtual work environment has resulted in the creation of a new work structure where interaction between employees and leaders occurs through technological innovations such as teleconferencing, emails, and text messages. The absence of physical workspace has also created a diverse work environment with people from various…

This study explores the relationship between School Culture and the administrative leadership styles of Principals and Assistant Principals from the perspective of the classroom teacher. The grade levels of the teacher sample ranged from pre-kindergarten to high school while accounting for age, gender, tenure/experience, level of education of the…

This study analyzed the relationship between the perceived principal's authentic leadership (relational transparency, internalized moral perspective, balanced processing, and self-awareness) scores and the teachers' affective, normative, and continuance commitment scores when controlling for the principal's gender, and the teachers' age,…

The objective of this research is to investigate the views of physical education teachers on the management approaches of the school principals. The research was conducted using the phenomenological design, which is used in the qualitative research methods. The respondents for the study group in the research comprised 17 physical education…