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Shea, Deborah; Alemu, Daniel S.; Visser, M. Jacqueline – Teacher Development, 2020
The purpose of this research was to explore the construct of teacher influence and consider it in the context of transformational leadership. Furthermore, it also investigates how to more broadly define teacher leadership liberating it from its reliance on specific district/school-assigned roles to include the belief that all teachers are capable…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Transformational Leadership, Teacher Leadership, Social Capital
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Kraft, Matthew A.; Marinell, William H.; Yee, Darrick – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2015
In education, there is ample evidence that some schools far outperform others at raising student achievement even when accounting for differences in the students they serve and the resources at their disposal. Differences in the human capital stock of teachers across schools cannot fully account for the differential productivity across schools. In…
Descriptors: Faculty Mobility, Academic Achievement, Organizational Climate, Human Capital
Hernandez, Donald J.; Denton, Nancy A.; Macartney, Suzanne E. – Child Trends, 2007
This Research Brief draws on new results of Census 2000 data to take a closer look at children in immigrant families, that is, children with at least one foreign-born parent. For example, the brief reports that children in newcomer families are driving the nation's racial and ethnic transformation. Moreover, these children constitute a very…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Immigrants, Children, Family (Sociological Unit)