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He, Pan; Ho, Dora – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2017
In recent years, the role of school principals in providing leadership, and the impact of that leadership in promoting teacher professional development for building school capacity has attracted increasing attention worldwide. The study described in this paper explores the practices of leadership for promoting school-based teacher professional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Leadership Role, Principals, Preschool Teachers
Yilmaz, Ayça Irem; Beycioglu, Kadir – Online Submission, 2017
This study aimed to determine the level of distributed leadership behaviours of the elementary school teachers in Turkey. In this study, surveying was used as the quantitative data gathering method and focus group was used as the qualitative one. To gather quantitative data, "The Distributed Leadership Scale"-"DLS" developed by…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Participative Decision Making, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Surveys
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Odegard-Koester, Melissa A.; Watkins, Paul – Journal of School Counseling, 2016
The working relationship between principals and school counselors have received some attention in the literature, however, little empirical research exists that examines specifically the components that facilitate a collaborative working relationship between the principal and school counselor. This qualitative case study examined the unique…
Descriptors: Principals, School Counselors, Cooperative Planning, Cooperation
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Gozali, Charlina; Claassen Thrush, Elizabeth; Soto-Peña, Michelle; Whang, Christine; Luschei, Thomas F. – FIRE: Forum for International Research in Education, 2017
Despite public commitments internationally and nationally to include the voices of all stakeholders, the voices of teachers have continued to be marginalized in the literature and in policy-making related to global educational development. The purpose of the current study is to examine the process of invoking teacher voice using a sample of…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Teacher Attitudes, Access to Education, Equal Education
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Leach, Rebecca B.; Wang, Tiffany R. – Communication Education, 2015
This study examined advisee communication motives for engaging in out-of-class communication (OCC) with the faculty academic advisor. Undergraduate students (n = 21) were interviewed about their motives for engaging in OCC with their faculty academic advisors. In a thematic analysis, six motives emerged for engaging in OCC with faculty academic…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Faculty Advisers, Teacher Student Relationship, Motivation
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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