The present study focuses joint school and university development work in preschool-projects try to increase educational quality. The aim of this study was to explore perceived conditions and perceptions of projects among participants in development projects in eleven preschools. In addition, we were interested in the perceived outcomes of the…

The following research represents the attitudes of preschool institutions principals towards the inclusion of children with special needs. Inclusion is highly recommended because it has beneficial effects on social integration and learning outcomes through the placement of children with special needs in regular educational settings with typically…

This study aims to explore the role of Turkish school administrators' sensemaking skills in shaping school learning climate and teacher commitment. Utilizing a cross-sectional survey design and Structural Equation Modeling, data were collected from a sample of 706 teachers. Findings showed that school administrators' sensemaking skills have a…

In 2019, the Department for Education (DfE) commissioned a consortium of evaluation and early years assessment specialists to evaluate the first phase of Early Years Professional Development Programme (EYPDP1). The evaluation was led by Ecorys, with the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER), Professor Kathy Sylva (the University of…

Digital interactions with government services have increased over time, particularly since the start of the coronavirus pandemic in March 2020. The Office of Inspector General (OIG) learned that some State educational agencies (SEA) were using digital wallet-related technologies and services (digital wallet) to help administer their Governor's…

Purpose: This study analyses the social role of the federal institutes (FIs) in Brazil's vocational education system, emphasising their impact on workforce development, social mobility and regional growth. Despite the importance of vocational education, societal undervaluation affects enrolment and institutional effectiveness. The research…

District leaders faced unprecedented challenges during COVID-19, significantly impacting their leadership and decision-making approaches. This narrative inquiry study explores the experiences of three superintendents amid the prolonged pandemic. Findings showed, while districts worked tirelessly to implement required mandates, they struggled with…

Purpose: Teachers' professional learning and development plays a critical role in implementing change and driving individual-, team- and school-level development. This study aims to investigate teachers' and principals' perceptions of team learning and team leaders' personal development in a school community within the framework of learning…

School administrators are called upon to enact and maintain school-wide systems and programs that promote student safety and success. The positive behavioral interventions and supports (PBIS) framework is a popular school-wide approach for teaching, maintaining, and addressing student behavior through a three-tiered framework with the aim of…

Since US state policy makers reformed their teacher evaluation systems in the mid-2010s, the scholarly literature has paid little attention to the classroom-level measures of student learning growth that many states repurposed as teacher performance measures. This study addresses the gap by documenting teachers' and principals' experiences with…

This study investigated the ways that principal leadership practice is shaped by religion and spirituality, both in terms of how beliefs inform their work and in relation to how religion and spirituality are manifest in school and community. Data were collected over a 6-month period from public school principals working in mixed Catholic-Muslim…

Physical education (PE) is an academic subject that delivers students a standards-based program designed to foster the knowledge and skills needed to be physically active for a lifetime. Although there is a dearth of research that has examined school administrators' perceptions and interactions with PE, it has been reported that school…

This study aims to investigate the educational problems of refugee students of Syrian origin. It is a qualitative research designed as a phenomenological study. Phenomenology, a qualitative research method, was the design of choice. The sample group consisted of two administrators, two school counselors, and 11 classroom teachers from a temporary…

The aim of this study, which was in a qualitative research design, is to reveal the perceptions of education administrators working in higher education institutions about the concept of sustainability through metaphors. The phenomenological model, which is based on the individual's describing a conscious experience of a phenomenon, and in which…

Multi-Academy Trusts (MAT) have developed organically in England since 2010. As a result, there appears to be a lack of consistency in the interpretation of delegated responsibilities of Local Governing Bodies (LGB). In a small-scale study of Headteacher (HT) accountability within one English MAT, governance was revealed as a major cause for…