As an indigenous serving institution, the University of Hawai'i (UH) serves all indigenous groups including Pacific Islander groups. Continual and practical training of emerging educational leaders at the UH is critical to the ongoing success of Hawai'i's only public post-secondary institution. Employing the oral history methodology, I examined…

Shared governance has become a critical focus for senior leaders concerned with institutional resilience and effectiveness. A blue-ribbon commission of the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (AGB, 2014) called on boards to take seriously this area of responsibility. At the same time, shared governance is a notoriously…

Teacher educators have three main paths for career development: teaching, research and institutional leadership. These may be mutually supportive, but also, sources of tension. Recent national and institutional policies encourage teacher educators to increase their research activities. This study aims to describe Israeli teacher educators'…

This study explores existing research on teacher leadership to examine novice teacher leadership. In examining the experiences of novice teachers during preservice preparation, the literature highlights critical practices that assist in the development of their leadership skills. To better understand these practices and their value, this study…

Numerous research studies continue to point to large numbers of teachers leaving the profession in the first five years. This teacher attrition rate negatively affects student achievement because student success is directly related to the skills, knowledge, and disposition of their teachers (Feiman-Newmser, 2001). It is those skills, knowledge,…

The purpose of this study was to investigate how preservice teachers (PSTs) respond and reflect in a University course that centres Critical Race Theory (CRT) and Critical Whiteness Studies (CWS) in the United States. Using artefacts from 100 PSTs class assignments we found two main themes. PST display a surface level consciousness which…

The present study investigated the relationship between organizational learning, department leadership, teacher leadership, job satisfaction, and engagement in a Turkish higher education language institution. It was designed as a quantitative study. 96 Turkish English language instructors participated in the research. The data were collected with…

This paper highlights findings from two aspects of a case study on the partnership between one mid-size California public school district and a private university sponsored literacy project to cultivate teacher efficacy and reignite early student literacy during and after COVID-19 contexts. Grounded in teacher efficacy in literacy instruction and…

Teacher retention is a continuing concern. One of the reasons teachers leave the profession is that they don't feel valued or working to their potential. Developing teacher leadership is a positive way to improve job satisfaction, career development, and retention (Wixom, 2016). In addition, teacher leadership and influence in decision-making are…

This study aims to investigate the relationship between the narcissism of leader and the defensive silence of employee. Specifically, it introduces interactional justice as mediator by taking a relational approach. It also considers the moderating role of leader-follower congruence in the relationship between leader narcissism and defensive…

Purpose: The benefits of teacher leadership have attracted the attention of policymakers, practitioners and researchers. It is increasingly advocated as one of the most crucial and indispensable components of the school, college and university administration. The present study tends to investigate the role of gratitude in developing teacher…

This piece describes a steadily changing, teacher leadership-oriented, CPED-affiliated, education doctorate (EdD) program that is housed in a department of curriculum and instruction. It situates the program design in relation to four key concepts--epistemology, praxis, efficacy, and iterative processes--while highlighting CPED's core stance that…

The purpose of this quantitative correlational study was to determine if and to what extent a relationship existed between student-perceived instructor servant leadership and student-perceived institutional climate and student learning in a military institution of higher education. Two research questions guided this study. The first asked if there…

Applying O'Meara, Campbell, and Terosky's (2011) faculty agency framework, this qualitative case study examined full-time, non-tenure-track faculty (FTNTTF) members' perceptions of their agency at an elite public research university. Participants experienced greater agency over time and in the classroom, but felt their agency was constrained by…

Transforming mathematics learning and teaching toward more equitable and effective approaches is critical to student mathematics learning and identity development. This task at-scale in a district takes time, commitment, and mathematics expertise that may not be widespread in the absence of focused professional development. District and regional…