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Jacob D. Skousen; Linda Vogel – American Journal of Distance Education, 2024
Over the last decade there was constant growth of online schools over the last decade, and this is expected to continue. Noting the previous research of the importance of school leadership on student achievement and the expected growth of virtual schools, leaders of these schools need to possess and demonstrate new knowledge and skills beyond…
Descriptors: Principals, Virtual Schools, Administrator Qualifications, Administrator Responsibility
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Partin, Jeana M.; Derrington, Mary Lynne – Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 2023
Principal Wilson is a first-year leader of a virtual high school. Following four years as an assistant principal in the brick-and-mortar school, she encounters unanticipated leadership challenges and policy dilemmas. Although discipline issues are nearly nonexistent, remote testing presents an ethical challenge. Moreover, she discovers that…
Descriptors: Virtual Schools, High Schools, Principals, Instructional Leadership
White, Katie Joann – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of auxiliary support systems in improving learner outcomes through a case study of one virtual school in a midwestern state. Mentor and teaching practices were researched and analyzed using the Community of Inquiry (CoI) theoretical framework. The research design was an evaluative case study…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Electronic Learning, Virtual Schools, Pupil Personnel Services
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Martin, Florence; Shanley, Nicole; Hite, Nicole; Pugalee, David; Perez-Quinones, Manuel; Ahlgrim-Delzell, Lynn; Hart, Ellen – Computers in the Schools, 2023
Based on a current Research to Practice Partnership (RPP) between a southeastern public university and a state virtual public school in the United States, ten high school teachers from a virtual school who teach Computer Science (CS) online participated in a summer workshop to collaborate through a participatory action research project regarding…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, High School Teachers, Web Based Instruction, Virtual Schools
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Tian, Jian; Mao, Wei; Liao, Linchun; Zhou, Xinyi – Science Insights Education Frontiers, 2021
The use of increasingly popularized information technology to improve education poverty and then promote the balanced development of education has become the development trend of world education. On the road to poverty alleviation, China has firmly grasped information technology to encourage school reform in areas with scarce educational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle Schools, Online Courses, Educational Technology
Arnett, Thomas – Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation, 2021
Practically overnight, the spread of COVID-19 caused a sudden shutdown of classroom-based instruction--the centuries-old emblem of formal education. Fortunately, the capabilities of the technological era--in which broadband connectivity, mobile communication, and video conferencing are increasingly common--meant that for the first time in world…
Descriptors: Pandemics, COVID-19, Elementary Secondary Education, School Closing