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Rajbhandari, Mani Man Singh; Rajbhandari, Smriti; Loock, Coert – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2016
This research explores and compares two leadership behavioural styles -- relations- and behavioural styles -- of school leaders in Finland. This study aimed to explore and understand the behavioural style of school leaders, specifically related to relations-oriented and task-oriented behaviour. Three schools in Finland were selected. In-depth…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes
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Tanriögen, Abdurrahman; Sari, Tamer – Educational Administration: Theory & Practice, 2019
The purpose of this study was to develop a valid and reliable scale to identify the perception management tactics used by school administrators. For this purpose, a 42-item measurement tool, which was developed based on interviews with 6 School Principals, 11 Assistant Principals and 28 Teachers from different branches, was presented to eight…
Descriptors: School Administration, Measures (Individuals), Factor Analysis, Foreign Countries
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Harris, Scott P.; Davies, Randall S.; Christensen, Steven S.; Hanks, Joseph; Bowles, Bryan – Education Sciences, 2019
The purpose of this study was to identify differences in perceptions between three stakeholder groups--principals, K-12 teachers, and parents--regarding the effect of workplace conditions on teacher attrition. All three groups agreed that workplace conditions are important, but they disagreed about (a) which workplace conditions are most…
Descriptors: Faculty Mobility, Teaching Conditions, Principals, Elementary School Teachers
Fields, Jane; Halloran, Clare; Peterson, Kristin – Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement, 2019
The Minnesota Principals Academy (MPA) is an executive development program designed to enhance the performance of school leaders in order to improve educational outcomes for students. The Center for Applied Research and Education Improvement (CAREI) serves as the program evaluator with the intention of providing information on the extent to which…
Descriptors: Principals, Professional Development, Program Evaluation, Leadership Training
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Lavigne, Alyson L.; Olson, Amy M. – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2020
The current study explores how principals (n = 568) experience a new teacher evaluation model under Race to the Top. Findings suggest that principals felt the least confident in their ability to identify teacher behaviors associated with student achievement gains and placed the least value on student achievement data. Evaluation experience…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Value Added Models, Academic Achievement, Accountability
Rutt, Simon – National Foundation for Educational Research, 2020
On May 10th, 2020 the Prime Minister announced a phased return of some children to school in England from June 1st. Schools had been closed to all but vulnerable and keyworker children since March 20th, meaning that most children have been educated at home for a period of 10 weeks, and some year groups are not expected to return to school until…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Job Satisfaction, Elementary Secondary Education
Payne, J. Scott; San Pedro, Sweet Z.; Moore, Raeal; Sanchez, Edgar I. – ACT, Inc., 2020
High-stakes, standardized testing plays an important role in the lives of many students as they apply to college and compete for scholarships. In states where college readiness measures, like the ACT® test, are used for school and district accountability, the ACT scores of all students, whether college-bound or not, are a top priority for school…
Descriptors: Test Preparation, Testing Programs, State Programs, School Districts
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Weiner, Jennie; Woulfin, Sarah L. – Journal of Research on Leadership Education, 2018
Responding to questions on how to develop and support teacher leaders, this article draws on sensemaking theory to discuss teacher leaders' transfer of ideas from Developing Exemplary Educators (DEE), an intermediary organization. We share findings grounded in qualitative interview data from teachers and administrators in two urban schools. After…
Descriptors: Teacher Leadership, Faculty Development, Urban Schools, Principals
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Guihen, Laura – Management in Education, 2017
Men continue to outnumber women at the secondary head teacher level. This article reports on some of the preliminary findings of a larger study exploring the ways in which women deputy head teachers, as potential aspirants to headship, perceive the secondary head teacher role. Using an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis methodology,…
Descriptors: Principals, Assistant Principals, Leadership Role, Secondary Education
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Ogidi, Reuben C.; Udechukwu, Jonathan O. – Journal of Education and Practice, 2017
The study sought to investigate the perception of stakeholders on teachers' assessment effectiveness in secondary schools in Port Harcourt Metropolis in Rivers State. Three research questions and one hypothesis were formulated to guide the study. The study adopted survey research design. The sample of the study consisted of 20 principles, 30 vice…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Teacher Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Attitudes
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Mize, Nicolas G. – Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 2016
Principal Vanessa Sanchez assumed leadership of a high-need, high-poverty urban school with a mandate from the district superintendent to change the school culture and to build an instructional team aligned to the principal's theory of change. The central dilemma of the case is how to lead organizational change while managing interpersonal…
Descriptors: Organizational Change, Personality Theories, Principals, Urban Schools
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Dewilde, Joke; Kjørven, Ole Kolbjørn; Skaret, Anne; Skrefsrud, Thor-André – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2018
This article explores an international week in a Norwegian primary school from the perspective of the different participants. Such international weeks are typically organized in connection with the United Nations Day, to contribute towards the school's aims of inclusion and social justice. Whereas research literature has been critical towards such…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Qualitative Research, Inclusion, Social Justice
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LaJevic, Lisa – Art Education, 2019
Looking for a K--12 art teaching position can be a daunting endeavor. What do school district administrators and art teachers feel is important when hiring visual arts teachers and how do they carry out the job search process? This is a question author Lisa LaJevic often hears from her preservice art teachers as they near the end of their college…
Descriptors: Job Search Methods, Teacher Education Programs, Art Education, Art Teachers
Larkin, Cynthia – ProQuest LLC, 2017
High school vice principals do not typically play a key role in the instructional leadership duties at their sites, as they are typically responsible for being their school's chief disciplinarians, managers of attendance, and supervisors of student activities and athletics. This study examined the role and responsibilities of high school vice…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Leadership Role, Assistant Principals, High Schools
Muldoon, Deirdre – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Three teachers and one assistant principal were recruited from a middle school in a large metropolitan area of the southwestern United States to implement evidence-based practices (EBP). The teachers implemented EBPs in self-continued classrooms to ameliorate the disruptive behavior of three students. The recruited teachers and assistant principal…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Behavior Problems, Middle School Teachers, Assistant Principals
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