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Download full textCeloria, Davide; Roberson, Ingrid – Educational Leadership and Administration: Teaching and Program Development, 2015
This study examines new principal coaching as an induction process and explores the emotional dimensions of educational leadership. Twelve principal coaches and new principals--six of each--participated in this qualitative study that employed emergent coding (Creswell, 2008; Denzin, 2005; Glaser & Strauss, 1998; Spradley, 1979). The major…
Descriptors: Beginning Principals, Coaching (Performance), Staff Orientation, Leadership Training
Direct linkMontaño, Elizabeth – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2015
When California legislators passed the California Charter School Act of 1992, it allowed parents the choice of sending their children to public charter schools, places where teachers would have more autonomy and where schools faced exemptions from state education codes and from collective bargaining contracts. Hope Charter School (a pseudonym;…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Unions, Teacher Associations, Teaching Experience
Almy, Sarah; Tooley, Melissa – Education Trust, 2012
Improving teaching effectiveness is a hot topic for policymakers around the country these days. The gathering movement marks an important step forward in the ongoing effort to strengthen our nation's schools. In many cases, however, these efforts start and stop with improving outdated, inadequate teacher evaluation systems. Such approaches fail to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Teacher Effectiveness, Teaching Methods, Public Schools
Thrust for Educational Leadership, 1999
In 1998, over 400 principals surveyed by EdSource reported they are struggling to satisfy increasing job demands. They would like to spend less time on budget, maintenance, and administrative details and more time on being instructional leaders and working with parents. Principals would like more budgetary control. (MLH)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Leadership, Principals
Yerkes, Diane M.; Guaglianone, Curtis – Thrust for Educational Leadership, 1998
Nationwide, widespread application shortages exist for high school principals. A 1998 Association of California School Administrators study of 11 representative districts found that positions went unfilled due to stress, salary, and shortage of qualified candidates. Dealing first with contextual concerns, then with personnel and institutional…
Descriptors: High Schools, Institutional Mission, Instructional Leadership, Labor Turnover
Dwyer, David C.; And Others – 1985
This case study presents findings from a year-long ethnographic study of a principal of an elementary school in a stable, urban environment. It concludes one of seven studies conducted in elementary and intermediate schools in urban, suburban, and rural settings to investigate the instructional management role of principals. Although previous…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Behavior Patterns, Case Studies, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Dwyer, David C.; And Others – 1985
This case study presents findings from a year-long ethnographic study of a principal at a dilapidated rural elementary school with arid, dusty surroundings. It concludes one of seven studies conducted in elementary and intermediate schools in urban, suburban, and rural settings to investigate the instructional management roles of principals.…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Behavior Patterns, Case Studies, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Dwyer David C.; And Others – 1985
This case study presents findings from a year-long ethnographic study of an innercity elementary school principal. It concludes one of seven studies conducted in elementary and intermediate schools in urban, suburban, and rural settings to investigate the instructional management role of principals. Although previous research offers disparate…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Behavior Patterns, Case Studies, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Dwyer, David C.; And Others – 1985
This case study presents findings from a year-long ethnographic study of an urban junior high school principal. It concludes one of seven studies conducted in elementary and intermediate schools in urban, suburban, and rural settings to investigate the instructional management role of principals. Although previous research offers disparate…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Behavior Patterns, Beliefs, Case Studies
Dwyer, David C.; And Others – 1985
This case study presents findings from a year-long ethnographic study of a suburban elementary school principal. It concludes one of seven studies conducted in elementary and intermediate schools in urban, suburban, and rural settings to investigate the instructional management role of principals. Although previous research offers disparate…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Behavior Patterns, Case Studies, Communication (Thought Transfer)
