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Barrett, Sharon Kebschull; Han, Jiye Grace – Public Impact, 2015
Principal Alison Harris is blunt in describing what she confronted on her arrival to Ranson IB Middle School in 2011. "I was placed in what many people would call an impossible situation," she says. During her initial visit to the school in 2009-10, she watched as students changed classes--while teachers pressed against the lockers to…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Effective Schools Research, Organizational Culture, Educational Change
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Dimopoulos, Kostas; Dalkavouki, Katerina; Koulaidis, Vasilis – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2015
This study aims at investigating primary school principals' work on a daily basis in order to understand the ways in which the centralized educational system affects their practices. Four typical cases of principals were selected and asked to keep daily records for a period of four months. Data from logs were complemented with data collected…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Elementary Education, Semi Structured Interviews