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Chambers, Terah Talei Venzant; Huggins, Kristin Shawn; Scheurich, James Joseph – Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 2009
This article explores tracking and its effect on African American students at Highview High School, a racially and socioeconomically diverse, first-ring suburban school. Mary Johnson, a White assistant principal, is troubled by the existence of racially identifiable course enrollment patterns and knows that meaningful change will only occur if a…
Descriptors: African American Students, High School Students, Track System (Education), Suburban Schools

Jones, Brett D.; Egley, Robert J. – ERS Spectrum, 2010
The purpose of this study was to determine how elementary school administrators in a large U.S. state perceived the overall effects of testing on education in general and, more specifically, on their instructional leadership responsibilities. We surveyed 325 Florida principals and assistant principals, many of whom viewed the testing program…
Descriptors: Assistant Principals, Test Results, Testing Programs, Testing
Walker, Allan; Kwan, Paula – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2009
Purpose: This article reports on a study designed to uncover the factors aspiring secondary school principals consider important when deciding whether to apply for a specific post. The aspiring principals involved in the study had all confirmed their desire to be a principal; about half were already vice-principals. Methods: Evidence for the study…
Descriptors: Factor Structure, Foreign Countries, Principals, Occupational Aspiration
Walker, Allan; Kwan, Paula – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2009
Purpose: This study attempts to link four groups of contextual factors to vice principals' desire for principalship using regression analysis. Relevant items representing context are grouped under professional, school, demographic, and motivational factors. The findings aim to provide greater understanding of the desire, or lack thereof, of vice…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Assistant Principals, Career Development, Principals
Majeika, Caitlyn E.; Walder, Jessica P.; Hubbard, Jessica P.; Steeb, Kelly M.; Ferris, Geoffrey J.; Oakes, Wendy P.; Lane, Kathleen Lynne – Beyond Behavior, 2011
A comprehensive, integrated, three-tiered model (CI3T) of prevention is a framework for proactively meeting students' academic, behavioral, and social skills. At the tertiary (Tier 3) level of prevention, functional-assessment based interventions (FABIs) may be used to identify, develop, and implement supports based on the function, or purpose, of…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Assistant Principals, High School Students, Student Behavior
Dulaney, Shannon Kay – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of the present study was to record Cedar Middle School's (CMS) response to intervention implementation journey. It is a qualitative case study that examines one school's efforts to bring school improvements under the response to inventory (RtI) umbrella in order to achieve a more systematic approach to providing high-quality…
Descriptors: Assistant Principals, Reading Comprehension, Intervention, Focus Groups
Oder, Tuuli – Teacher Development, 2008
The Republic of Estonia as a typical country in transition is going through major changes in educational thinking. Global and European educational trends, together with local changes, the most important being a new state system, have resulted in changes in the concept of professional foreign language (FL) teaching. Common ground among various…
Descriptors: Second Languages, Educational Trends, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
McCray, Carlos R.; Beachum, Floyd D.; Richardson, Hayward R. – Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 2008
This case is centered on the term "aestheticism", the discrimination or bias against those who do not possess the most desired physical qualities. In this particular case, the authors have chosen to highlight how African American administrators might be selected, assigned, or appointed based on their physical attributes and characteristics. The…
Descriptors: Assistant Principals, Personnel Selection, Racial Discrimination, Cultural Pluralism
Wong, Ping-Man – School Leadership & Management, 2009
Vice-principals' role and their relationship with principals are of paramount importance in shaping the effectiveness of school management, particularly after the implementation of school-based management (SBM) worldwide. This paper reports primarily on prior studies on the vice-principalship and suggests a framework to help explain the different…
Descriptors: School Based Management, Principals, Assistant Principals, School Administration
Michaelidou, Athena; Pashiardis, Petros – Professional Development in Education, 2009
School heads and assistant headteachers in Cyprus attend in-service training programmes as part of their professional development, after they are promoted to their new leadership post. A review of the literature highlights the significance of a needs analysis when designing and/or reforming in-service training programmes. Nevertheless, there seems…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professional Development, Principals, Questionnaires
Kingham, Sabrah Helms – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Are new school administrators prepared for the surprises, obstacles, and opportunities they are likely to encounter during the first-year in their new role? Sadly enough, too many new leaders do not feel prepared to meet the challenges of their new role as an administrator. In 2006, the National Center for Education Statistics (2006) reported that…
Descriptors: Assistant Principals, Mentors, Administrator Attitudes, Logical Thinking
Clark, Damon; Martorell, Paco; Rockoff, Jonah – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research, 2009
We use detailed data from New York City to estimate how the characteristics of school principals relate to school performance, as measured by students' standardized exam scores and other outcomes. We find little evidence of any relationship between school performance and principal education and pre-principal work experience, although we do find…
Descriptors: Assistant Principals, Equal Education, Mathematics Tests, Program Effectiveness
Edwards, Danielle Felder – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This study examined the career stability (career choices assistant principals intend to make over the next five to ten years) in a large, urban school district in the southeastern region of the United States in order to identify factors significantly related to their career aspirations. The study invited a purposive sample (n = 177) of assistant…
Descriptors: Assistant Principals, Urban Schools, Role Conflict, School Districts
Ng, Pak Tee – Journal of In-service Education, 2008
The Leaders in Education Programme is a six-month full-time programme for specially selected vice-principals and ministry officers in Singapore to prepare them for school leadership. This paper describes and analyses the design of the programme and identifies the key underlying principle as that of knowledge construction, sharing and application…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Foreign Countries, Instructional Leadership, Program Descriptions
Williams, Nida W. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This qualitative case study was designed to explore how master teachers in transfer high schools learn the competencies they perceive are required to engage at-risk students so that they persist and graduate. The study is based on the following assumptions: (1) The requisite teacher competencies can be defined and identified and, in fact,…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Education, High Schools, At Risk Students, Case Studies