Professional development (PD) for school leaders is focused primarily on documenting professional learning and identifying growth areas. However, the impact of reflections related to PD on sustaining school leaders' instructional capacity remains rather unaddressed. We examined how practicing school leaders develop their instructional leadership…

This qualitative case study explores the experiences and sense of belonging for Valiant Region College (pseudonym) students who served as club leaders/officers during the 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 school year. Twelve students total were interviewed either individually or within focus groups and shared their personal experiences, trials and triumphs…

Community leadership development programs (CLDPs) purport to train and equip individuals for leadership role participation in 5,500 communities across the United States. These communities seem to see value in these programs, yet there is little accountability for what graduates are actually doing in the community after program completion. The…

The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to investigate how leaders described their experiences with team collaboration, organizational knowledge creation, and organizational culture when using Artificial Intelligence in companies in the Western United States. Nonaka and Takeuchi's SECI Knowledge Spiral model was used to underpin this…

In 2023, Region 16 Comprehensive Center (R16CC) and Education Northwest partnered to extend the scope of previous work and address feedback on a first report from R16CC's WA Tribal Advisory Board. Specifically, they responded to a call for a stronger focus on regional efforts in the Pacific Northwest. This document presents themes that emerged…

Transformational leaders have been shown to influence positive work environments and support the retention of nursing staff. While exemplars have been found in upper-level management, the implementation of these characteristics in unit-based leaders is less explained. The elements of the transformational leader on followers and the…

Games allow adult facilitators to develop youth participants' leadership learning in a meaningful and educational way. When working with youth as the audience there are particular elements that need to be considered to guarantee applicable leadership development. This article discusses the model of youth leadership development, youth-specific…

At the American Educational Research Association meeting in April 2022, Vasti Torres, the vice president of Division J (higher education), convened a session to reflect on the pandemic and what it means for campuses going forward, especially as it relates to issues of equity. Dr. Torres' premise was that campuses have been responding to the…

This article shares wisdom from three leaders in the Baltimore nonprofit sector on university engagement with local communities. In conversation with the directors of Towson University's Grant Writing in Valued Environments (G.I.V.E.) program, the community leaders give practical advice to be used in grant writing and community engagement efforts,…

High-quality professional learning can support in-service leaders' effectiveness by developing the skills, knowledge, and competencies necessary for addressing their full range of leadership responsibilities. however, recent data show that leaders' access to professional learning varies across states and communities and that leaders in…

Research in the area of organizational learning has focused upon division leaders and the contexts that drive policy, reform, and professional learning in the area of literacy. The purpose of this case study was to examine the ways and means through which district leaders perceived their experiences within an organizational learning context of a…

Physicists, physics students, and community members engage with each other through a variety of informal physics programs. These programs differ in format, such as after school programs, public lectures, planetariums, summer camps, and other non-formal classroom environments. These programs also differ in the physics topics they cover, activities,…

Ample correlational research shows that leader support for creativity is related to subordinate creativity, yet research examining the causality of this relationship experimentally is scant. Furthermore, most studies that demonstrate support for this relationship have used relatively subjective creativity measures that do not tap as effectively…

Educational leaders' effectiveness in solving problems is vital to school and system-level efforts to address macrosystem problems of educational inequity and social injustice. Leaders' problem-solving conversation attempts are typically influenced by three types of beliefs--beliefs about the nature of the problem, about what causes it, and about…

Social emotional learning (SEL) fosters students' emotional intelligence and social skills, and research supports the relationships between SEL and academic outcomes. Despite schools implementing SEL as required by state policies, the manner of presentation is critiqued for its relevance to students' cultural complexities. This qualitative study…