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Cangelosi, Bonnie J. – Principal, 2009
In 2000, the author took over the leadership of a large elementary school located in a small community in western Pinellas County, Florida. During her first year, the student population was around 950 students in kindergarten through fifth grade. Today the school population is around 750 students, with 93 percent being white students who live in…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Declining Enrollment, Instructional Leadership, Leadership Training
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Pearson, L. Carolyn; Moomaw, William – Educational Research Quarterly, 2005
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between teacher autonomy and on-the-job stress, work satisfaction, empowerment, and professionalism. Using a reliable and valid measure of curriculum autonomy and general teaching autonomy (TAS), it was found that as curriculum autonomy increased on-the-job stress decreased, but there was…
Descriptors: Professional Autonomy, Job Satisfaction, Teaching Conditions, Teacher Attitudes
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Hillard, Lurana Case; Guglielmino, Lucy Madsen – ERS Spectrum, 2007
The primary purpose of this study was to determine if there were commonalities in the approaches of 10 elementary school principals in the state of Florida identified as "success stories" in leading reading improvement in their schools in 2002, shortly after enactment of the No Child Left Behind Act at the national level and the Just…
Descriptors: Teacher Empowerment, Learning Readiness, Federal Legislation, Reading Improvement