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Dube, Dorcas – Childhood Education, 2023
Quality education is an effective equalizer in an unequal world. The link between cyclical poverty and a lack of quality education is well understood, as is the inextricable link between the provision of quality education and sustainable economic growth. As governments, policymakers, civil society, and ordinary citizens work together to make…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, School Administration, Educational Quality, Poverty
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Kaoun, Tarek M. – Journal of Leadership Education, 2019
As an adult-learning practitioner, I am intrigued by the process of helping learners, especially leaders, develop through the affective domain. Although leaders in my experience often comprehend the lexicon of emotional intelligence (EI), incorporating EI for leadership development has proven elusive. While research suggests EI is difficult to…
Descriptors: Emotional Intelligence, Metacognition, Leadership Effectiveness, Adult Educators
Foster, Elise; Wiseman, Liz – Phi Delta Kappan, 2015
Studying more than 400 educational leaders, the authors propose a new model for leadership and management rooted in the belief that there is latent intelligence inside schools and educational organizations. Their findings suggest two dramatically different types of leaders, Multipliers and Diminishers. The five disciplines that distinguish…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Educational Administration, Educational Practices, Administrative Change
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Scott, Caitlin; Parsley, Danette – Regional Educational Laboratory Northwest, 2014
This summary highlights the findings of a study that examined the survey responses of teachers from 75 Idaho schools working on school improvement. Results of the study showed schools with higher teacher reports of the presence of the goals, processes, and supports essential for student success did not have higher rates of reading proficiency,…
Descriptors: School Effectiveness, Outcomes of Education, Reading Achievement, Mathematics Achievement
Waters, J. Timothy; Marzano, Robert J. – School Administrator, 2007
In this article, the authors take a quick comparative look at two superintendents and their districts to better understand how both of them, considered strong leaders, can have very different effects on mean district-level student achievement. Their recent meta-analysis of the effects of district-level leadership on student achievement, summarized…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Tenure, Correlation, Academic Achievement
Chavez, Sandra – School Administrator, 2006
In pursuit of creating a culture that would contribute to the successful learning outcomes envisioned by the superintendent of the Beaufort County, South Carolina, School District, the author returned to her roots and experiences in organizational development. She discovered an article about McBassi and Co., an agency specializing in the…
Descriptors: Public Education, Organizational Development, Human Capital, Outcomes of Education