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Klar, Hans W.; Huggins, Kristin Shawn; Hammonds, Hattie L.; Buskey, Frederick C. – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2016
Principals are being encouraged to distribute leadership to increase schools' organizational capacities, and enhance student growth and learning. Extant research on distributed leadership practices provides an emerging basis for adopting such approaches. Yet, relatively less attention has been paid to examining the principal's role in fostering…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Educational Administration, Participative Decision Making, Transformational Leadership
Chambers, Jay G.; Harper, Dorothy T.; Manship, Karen; Rosas, Rigo; Brown, James R. – Strategic School Funding for Results, 2010
The Strategic School Funding for Results (SSFR) interviews began in November of 2009 with focus group interviews of the Superintendent's Cabinet. Individual principal interviews were conducted between January 15 and January 22 of 2010. Two elementary, two middle-, and one high school principal were interviewed. The AIR/PLP (American Institutes for…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Interviews, School Districts, Principals
Gonzalez, Kenneth P. – Lumina Foundation for Education, 2009
The Achieving the Dream (ATD) initiative works with more than 100 community colleges across the United States with the specific goal of increasing student success. Together, Achieving the Dream colleges graduate or transfer close to 250,000 students a year. With just a 5 percent increase in graduation rates, individuals can positively impact the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Organizational Change, Followup Studies, Success
Frase, Larry; Hetzel, Robert – 1990
Management by wandering around (MBWA) is the catalyst that brings teachers, aides, parents, and administrators together in the pursuit of excellent schools. This book, based on common sense and hundreds of years of experience, offers specific strategies and techniques for using MBWA to obtain excellence. The building blocks of school excellence,…
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Administrator Effectiveness, Change Strategies, Educational Improvement
Easton, Claire; Wilson, Rebekah; Sharp, Caroline – National Foundation for Educational Research, 2005
This report sets out to provide the National Remodelling Team (NRT) with comprehensive details on stakeholders' views about the second year of the remodelling programme. This report is divided into nine chapters: (1) Introduction; (2) outlines the aims of the evaluation and the methodology used; (3) describes the findings from the survey of local…
Descriptors: Management Development, Educational Finance, Professional Development, Money Management