The principal can create dynamic changes across a school and district if they are willing to partner with other educators and policy makers to build trust along a common understanding of the purposes of education. In crafting this shared definition or vision, the instructional leader would be wise to turn to the educational philosopher, John…

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explore how school leaders in high poverty California Distinguished schools utilize readiness for change strategies, in conjunction with their understanding of their context, to build a grounded theory of the processes and practices which lead to successful change implementation. Conceptual Framework: The…

The Leadership and Organizational Change for Implementation (LOCI) strategy is a multifaceted implementation strategy that aims to support successful evidence-based practice (EBP) implementation by fostering effective general leadership, implementation leadership, and implementation climate. How implementation strategies are experienced by…

Background: The aspiration to use evidence to enhance the legitimacy and effectiveness of policies is widely shared but often falls short. A common explanation for failure is the presence of barriers to utilising evidence or the inadequacies of the evidence available to policy makers. Aims and objectives: The article examines how and why…

This study combines Walter Mignolo's decolonial thinking with Carol Bacchi's 'what's the problem represented to be' approach to analyse how sustainable development is problematised in Tanzanian education policies. We find a dominant problematisation of sustainable development that sees it as a problem of economic competition, further nested in a…

The study examines university leadership strategies for advancing gender equity in higher education administration, focusing on public and private institutions in Nigeria, Africa, and beyond. Persistent gender disparities in leadership stem from cultural biases, structural barriers, and inadequate policies. The effectiveness of leadership…

School improvement is complex and difficult, especially in comprehensive support and improvement (CSI) schools, which concurrently struggle with multiple challenges. To guide state education agencies (SEAs) in supporting schools, this annex provides (1) the resources that SEAs have identified and developed to support the identification and…

As grading reform efforts such as standards-based grading and grading for equity gain popularity, school leaders play a key role in supporting mathematics teachers' implementation efforts. This paper describes what mathematics leaders need to know about grading reform and what mathematics leaders should do to support teachers in implementing…

This study aimed at filling in the gap in the literature by examining the organizational identity (OI) of a group of private not-for-profit liberal arts colleges (LACs) and their change and/or stability over time. The OIs were investigated by employing a qualitative content analysis for the strategic plans of eleven LACs over time. The selected…

In mid-2016, in Brazil, many political changes are made after the deposition of President Dilma Rousseff from the presidency of the federal republic. Among these changes, initiated by the President of the Republic Michel Temer and sustained by his successor, Jair Bolsonaro, are the changes in the area of Education, placing it more and more on the…

This capstone provides an examination and review of organizational change management within higher education and the processes related to facilitating change within a higher education environment. A review of related literature was conducted to research change management and the intersection of organizational oversight and a proposal created to…

In the vacuity created by the global pandemic, George Floyd's broadcasted murder regenerated the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement and compelled a national conversation about racial injustice (Associated Press, 2020; Cullors et al., 2013). Institutions of higher education (IHE) immediately responded with anti-racist efforts spanning from action…

In "The Great School Rethink," education policy sentinel Frederick M. Hess offers a pithy and perceptive appraisal of American schooling and finds, in the uncertain period following pandemic disruption, an ideal moment to reimagine US education. Now is the time, he asserts, to ask hard questions about how schools use time and talent, how…

Background: We investigate the factors that shape teachers' implementation of a school STEM reform--the creation of a high-school makerspace. Educational reformers have increasing interest in making and makerspaces in schools. Prior research shows how factors shape reform at the classroom, school (organizational), and institutional levels, as well…

This paper undertakes a critical analysis of a planned change, the Safe Learning Model (SLM), devised over time by Concern Worldwide, and implemented in 100 primary or elementary schools in a rural district of Sierra Leone. We situate the documentation pertaining to the SLM (micro) within its wider national (meso) and international (macro) context…