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Haim Shaked – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2024
The available frameworks of instructional leadership do not include functions aimed to ensure that teachers are suited for their position, such as hiring appropriate teachers, placing teachers effectively, and firing ineffective teachers. This study explored how principals link their responsibility of ensuring that existing teachers are the right…
Descriptors: Principals, Elementary Schools, Instructional Leadership, Teacher Placement
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Arnon Hirsch; Chen Schechter – Teacher Educator, 2024
Coherence is highly important in teacher education and professional development programs--the extent of shared vision between position holders contributes to the program's success. Nevertheless, the research on shared vision and coherence has primarily focused on teacher training programs. Hence, in this study, we conducted 29 interviews with…
Descriptors: School Districts, Faculty Development, Principals, Superintendents
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Sharon Shani; Miri Yemini – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2024
In business, entrepreneurship is considered an impetus for change and innovation, potentially leading to the implementation of effective change and practices. In the last two decades, a discourse on entrepreneurship has surfaced within the education system. This study focuses on entrepreneurial processes initiated and led by local education…
Descriptors: School Districts, Municipalities, Socioeconomic Status, Administrator Attitudes
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Iris Zadok; Moriah Nissan; Tzipi Versicherter-Chechik – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2024
This study applied a positive-psychological approach to examining childcare directors' role in maintaining the stability of their staff from the caregivers' and directors' points of view. Most of the childcare centers in Israel are characterized by high burnout and turnover of staff members. Nevertheless, some teams stay stable, and turnover is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Administrator Role, Child Care Centers, Burnout
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Shiran German Ben-Hayun; Izhak Berkovich – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2024
This study investigated the coverage of desecularization in Israeli non-religious public education in national and local newspapers from 2016 to 2022. We conducted a content analysis and coded key elements for each article, such as the activists who carried out or opposed the desecularization activity and their narratives, arguments for and…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, News Reporting, Activism, Public Education
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Nitza Davidovitch; Erez Cohen – Cogent Education, 2024
Academic practitioners are judged and evaluated by the different academic institutions and by government regulators associated with these institutions. There are various criteria for evaluating the work of faculty members in the areas of research, teaching, and contribution to the department, the academic institution and the community. In Israel,…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, College Faculty, Faculty Workload, Administrator Role
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Eli Ben Harush – International Journal of Educational Management, 2024
Purpose: The global COVID-19 crisis posed many managerial and leadership challenges for principals. More specifically, after the crisis passed noticeable changes in school climate manifested and affected principal management style. The present study examined perceptions of principals regarding school climate and its impact on management style. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Principals
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Ganon-Shilon, Sherry; Finkelstein, Idit; Sela-Shayovitz, Revital; Schechter, Chen – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2023
COVID-19 requires educational leaders to collectively make sense of their inclusive practices. This qualitative study explores how COVID-19 crisis shaped Israeli superintendents' and principals' role in fostering school sense-making processes during a reform based on Amendment No. 11 to the Special Education Law. Data were collected with 22 Jewish…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Districts, Administrators
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Haisraeli, Adam; Fogiel-Bijaoui, Sylvie – Educational Review, 2023
This paper brings together two rich bodies of knowledge that have barely intersected in research: parental involvement in the school and processes of pedagogical change. Until now, parental involvement has been studied in many contexts, but references to parental involvement in a school's pedagogy are rare. Management of pedagogical change has…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Parent School Relationship, Elementary Schools, Foreign Countries
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Tamar, Chen-Levi; Yaffa, Buskila; Lea, Shaked; Haia, Altarac; Nitzan, Elyakim – International Journal of Educational Reform, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic changed schools' reality and posed a wide range of challenges for school leaders, such as a re-examination of principals' and teachers' authority and leadership in the schools' virtual spaces. Teaching methods and social-emotional aspects of learning were challenged as well. The school faculty had to redesign their…
Descriptors: Virtual Classrooms, Electronic Learning, Virtual Schools, Principals
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Peleg Dor-Haim – Journal of Educational Administration, 2025
Purpose: This study examined the diverse expressions of self-fulfillment among principals working in Israel's special education system for complex disabilities. It addressed two primary questions: (1) What are the perceived manifestations of self-fulfillment among principals in the context of complex disabilities? (2) What examples of…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Special Education, Students with Disabilities
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Miriam Schiff; Ruth Pat-Horenczyk; Rami Benbenishty – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: This study examined students' perceived levels of coping and need for help, and the relationship with their risks and protective factors during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in Israel. Participants: A sample of 4,710 university students responded anonymously to an online questionnaire. Methods: The risk and protective…
Descriptors: College Students, Coping, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Shaked, Haim – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2020
Researchers have found that despite the top-down pressures to assume an instructional leadership role, school principals demonstrate limited direct involvement in such leadership. The current qualitative study aimed to expand inquiry into inhibitors of instructional leadership in Israeli principals. Data analysis uncovered that Israeli principals'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Leadership, Principals, Administrator Role
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Dery, Keren; Reingold, Roni – European Journal of Educational Management, 2021
This research describes the perceptions of school principals in the context of their role in leading the professional development of the teaching staff. Their perceptions were examined in reference to three educational ideologies: socialization, acculturation and individuation. Data analysis of semi structured interviews conducted with 20 school…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Instructional Leadership
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Avidov-Ungar, Orit – Journal of Educational Administration, 2019
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to focus on professional learning communities (PLCs) run for and by teachers to achieve their ongoing professional development and greater pupil attainment. The paper examined principals' perceptions of how such PLCs influence teachers, teacher learning and school processes, and their own involvement in PLCs…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Communities of Practice
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