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Ryan, Thomas G.; Gallo, Mary – International Journal of Educational Reform, 2011
Leadership succession planning is a means to identify the need for systematic and purposeful change in education. Policy, planning, and research suggest that there is an acute shortage of school leaders globally. By illumination of these facts, we detail and describe what is happening within a Canadian context, and this we argue is similar to what…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Leadership, Principals, Synthesis
Parsons, Jim; Beauchamp, Larry – Online Submission, 2012
Administrators in five highly effective elementary schools were studied. These leaders, through acts of will and insight, had given up iconic and heroic leadership status, so that school leadership might be shared. Leadership has a significant effect on student learning. Principals' influence is often indirect, works through others, and happens…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Lifelong Learning, Elementary Schools, Feedback (Response)
Mueller, Robin – Canadian Journal of Education, 2011
Canadian public school board trustees are generally chosen by way of public ballot in civic elections. A comparison of board governance literature to a local narrative account of public school board elections exposes several gaps between espoused democratic ideals and the realities of public engagement in trustee selection. I investigate the…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Elections, Outcomes of Education, Boards of Education
Fernet, Claude – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2011
Purpose: The aim of this study was to develop and validate a scale to assess work role motivation in school principals: the Work Role Motivation Scale for School Principals (WRMS-SP). The WRMS-SP is designed to measure intrinsic motivation, three types of extrinsic motivation (identified, introjected, and external), and amotivation with respect to…
Descriptors: French Canadians, Construct Validity, Measures (Individuals), Program Validation
Ross, John A.; Sibbald, Timothy – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2010
External diagnosis is recommended when schools lack the capacity to assess their needs. This qualitative study of one Ontario district compared 33 elementary schools that conducted external diagnosis with 47 schools that used internal diagnosis. External diagnosis created pressure for change, helped schools develop a plan that included previously…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Effectiveness, Instructional Leadership, Comparative Analysis
Armstrong, Denise E. – Teachers College Record, 2010
Background/Context: Over four decades ago, Arnold van Gennep used the term rites of passage to describe the ceremonial and ritualistic behaviors that marked the passage between social roles. Although the transition from teaching to administration is not as clearly delineated as passages in traditional societies, it is also characterized by…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Socialization, Ceremonies, Leadership
Cranston, Jerome – Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, 2009
Using a naturalistic inquiry approach and thematic analysis, this paper outlines the findings of a research study that examined 12 Manitoba principals' conceptions of professional learning communities. The study found that these principals consider the development of professional learning communities to be a normative imperative within the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, Principals, Communities of Practice
Mirk, Paula – Principal Leadership, 2009
Research from the Schools of Integrity project identified openness, honesty, relationship-building, and constant rigorous reflection as key elements in schools that successfully balance academic rigor with ethical development. To translate these findings into the public school setting, the Institute for Global Ethics spoke to six secondary school…
Descriptors: Integrity, Leadership Effectiveness, Values, Ethics
Alberta Education, 2009
This Principal Quality Practice Guideline (PQPG) represents a first step in a process to develop a framework for quality school leadership in Alberta. It includes a statement on Principal Quality Practice and seven leadership dimensions, with supporting descriptors, reflecting the Alberta context. The PQPG is to be used as a basis for many…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Foreign Countries, Instructional Leadership, Principals
Sheehan, Mark C. – EDUCAUSE, 2010
This document presents the key findings from "Powering Down: Green IT in Higher Education," the 2010 ECAR (EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research) study of green IT. The study examines the stance institutions and their central IT organizations are taking on environmental sustainability (ES), the progress they are making on a variety of key…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Technology, Energy Conservation, Conservation (Environment)
Lazaridou, Angeliki; Athanasoula-Reppa, Anastasia; Fris, Joe – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2008
Over the past few decades universities and colleges have undergone changes that have increased the complexity of academic managers' roles. There is some evidence now that these managers have come to experience significant role ambiguity, conflict, stress, and other negative effects--and that their wellbeing has been compromised. However, the…
Descriptors: Role Conflict, Figurative Language, Administrator Role, Department Heads
Wright, Lisa L. – Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, 2008
Although claiming leadership to be critical to school improvement, few studies seek the informative voice of principals regarding their understandings of roles and sources of leadership. Using a distributed perspective as a theoretical lens to reconceptualize leadership, this article explores principals' perspectives of leadership in relation to…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Instructional Leadership
Fullan, Michael – Principal, 2010
After more than 20 years of vague reference to the principal as instructional leader, progress is finally being made, and the specificity and results are truly awesome. In 1989, William Smith and Richard Andrews wrote a monograph titled "Instructional Leadership: How Principals Make a Difference." In their study of 1,200 school…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Instructional Leadership, Principals
Zaretsky, Lindy; Moreau, Louise; Faircloth, Susan – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2008
This study focuses on four key issues: the perception of the role played by principals in Ontario in the administration and supervision of special education programs and services; the extent to which the construct of the principal as the instructional leader accurately depicts the role of the principal in schools with high concentrations of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Administrator Role, Administrator Characteristics
Ewart, Gestny – Canadian Journal of Education, 2009
There is a shortage of teachers in Canada qualified to teach in French; some researchers have suggested that this shortage is due to attrition. This study examined the retention in Manitoba of new teachers qualified to teach in French. Participants were 130 graduates from the only French teacher education program in the province. Attrition was…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Foreign Countries, French, Teacher Shortage