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Principals' Sensemaking and Enactment of Teacher Evaluation
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Rigby, Jessica G. – Journal of Educational Administration, 2015
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to look across six first-year principals to investigate their engagement with and sensemaking of specific messages of instructional leadership around teacher evaluation. Design/methodology/approach: This research project, a cross-case study, was carried out using in-depth qualitative observations and…
Descriptors: Principals, Instructional Leadership, Teacher Evaluation, Qualitative Research
Leading Learning-Focused Teacher Leadership in Urban High Schools
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Portin, Bradley S.; Russell, Felice Atesoglu; Samuelson, Catherine; Knapp, Michael S. – Journal of School Leadership, 2013
Drawing on findings from a national study of learning-focused leadership in challenging urban settings, this article examines the work of teacher leadership in urban high schools. In this context, a recently emerging cadre of nonsupervisory teacher leaders, working in collaboration with supervisory leaders, exercises a form of "distributed…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Instructional Leadership, Expertise, Teacher Leadership
The Administrative Control of Principals in Effective School Districts: The Supervision and Evaluation Functions.
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Murphy, Joseph; And Others – Urban Review, 1986
Examines the nature of administrative control of school principals in 12 especially effective districts in California. Supervision and evaluation of site level administrators were rational and meaningful processes in these districts. The supervision and evaluation functions appeared to form important linkage mechanisms between schools and…
Descriptors: Administrator Evaluation, Elementary Secondary Education, Principals, School Administration
State Supervisory Programs for the Education of Exceptional Children. Bulletin, 1940, No. 6. Monograph No. 10
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Martens, Elise H. – US Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1941
Because of the individual authority of each State for its own educational program, practices and policies differ widely among them in many respects. Yet in the midst of differences there are also common elements of development. The U. S. Office of Education, in presenting this series of monographs, has attempted to point out those common elements,…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Special Education, School Administration, Residential Institutions
Implementing a Field-Based Elementary Teacher Training Program.
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Fueyo, Vivian – Education and Treatment of Children, 1991
A field-based elementary teacher training center was established in a California school district to develop training for cooperating teachers, systematize selection of cooperating teachers, standardize student teacher placement, and develop delivery and support systems. Results indicated improved student teaching performance, increased school…
Descriptors: Consultation Programs, Cooperating Teachers, Delivery Systems, Elementary Education
Staff Personnel Administration: Selected Practices and Issues. Bulletin, 1963, No. 6. OE-23027
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Steffensen, James P. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1963
The purpose of this publication is to focus attention upon a rapidly growing development in public school administration--the increasing interest in personnel administration as a process which can be identified through a description of certain formal functions which every school district must perform. The existence of adequate personnel policies…
Descriptors: Educational History, School Administration, Public Schools, School Districts