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Chadwick, Christi; Kowal, Julie – Center for American Progress, 2011
Charter schools and successful charter management organizations that run them have grown significantly over the past decade but they must dramatically increase their scale in order to meet the demand for high-quality public school options for America's children. The limited supply of effective leaders and teachers is one of the key barriers…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Leadership Effectiveness, Human Capital, Teacher Effectiveness
Holacka, Karin V. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This research study identified the frequency in which six public school districts in Texas provided principals with effective development opportunities prior to the principalship excluding university or certification programs. A purposive sample of over 200 principals from six school districts in the Dallas/Fort Worth area were asked to…
Descriptors: Principals, Professional Development, Leadership Training, Questionnaires
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Moore, Lori L. – Journal of Leadership Education, 2010
This study sought to examine student perceptions related to the use of cooperative exams in an introductory leadership class. In this study, cooperative exams were used as a collaborative learning activity in which students took class exams individually first and then as a peer group. The majority of students (n = 41, 61.4%) had not previously…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Introductory Courses, Leadership Training, Group Testing
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Hernandez, Rosalinda; Roberts, Maria; Menchaca Velma – International Journal of Educational Leadership Preparation, 2012
The paper describes a mixed methods approach to the process of redesigning a principal preparation program. A qualitative approach was used to gather data from superintendents within the geographic area using a focused group approach, whereas, quantitative data, were gathered through a survey of program graduates with questions aligned to the…
Descriptors: Graduate Surveys, Principals, Mixed Methods Research, Instructional Design
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Moore, Lori L.; Grabsch, Dustin K.; Rotter, Craig – Journal of Leadership Education, 2010
This study sought to examine student motives for participating in a residential leadership learning community for incoming freshmen using McClelland's Achievement Motivation Theory (McClelland, 1958, 1961). Eighty-nine students began the program in the Fall 2009 semester and were administered a single, researcher-developed instrument. Responses to…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Residential Programs, Leadership Training, College Freshmen
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El-Ashmawy, Amina K.; Weasenforth, Donald L. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2010
Over the past decade or so there has been increasing concern over the unprecedented wave of retirements of community college leaders, from department chairs all the way to presidents. There are three different venues for developing future leaders in order to offset this deficiency: university-based formal degrees, professional and continuing…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Continuing Education, Program Descriptions, Program Development
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Sherman, Whitney H.; Crum, Karen S.; Beaty, Danna M. – Journal of Research on Leadership Education, 2010
While the use of distance technology has been touted as having the potential to reform leadership preparation, there is little to no research on students' experiences or outcomes in educational leadership. The authors sought to understand, through a descriptive survey design, whether or not distance technology is a viable competitor to…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Leadership Training, Educational Change, Instructional Leadership
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Klinker, JoAnn Franklin; Watson, Patricia A.; Furgerson, Paige; Halsey, Pamela; Janisch, Carole – Teacher Education and Practice, 2010
Teacher leadership is difficult because teachers often lack encouragement and opportunities to implement ideas that deliberately and strategically interact with and tap power structures in schools. In this study, a book club of university faculty and middle school teachers provided teacher leaders with a template for change around concepts…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Teacher Leadership, Books, Clubs
Smith, Loyd Jason – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This study compared the leadership orientations of Texas superintendents who had completed the Lamar University Executive Leadership Academy for Superintendents (LUELAS) with superintendents who had not completed the training. Specifically, this study was designed to determine whether there is a significant difference between the leadership…
Descriptors: Multivariate Analysis, Data Analysis, Comparative Analysis, Enrollment
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Boske, Christa A. – Journal of Research on Leadership Education, 2010
This article investigates the experiences of aspiring school leaders, predominantly Students of Color, within a predominantly White, male, upper class, Texas university educational leadership program. Based in the tradition of narrative inquiry, written reflections, semi-structured interviews, course documents, and field notes provided data for…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Interviews, Instructional Leadership, Racial Bias
Hageage, Ana – National Council of La Raza, 2011
This report profiles the National Council of La Raza (NCLR) Escalera Program: Taking Steps to Success, a Latino-serving, community-based youth workforce development program, which was developed in 2001 in partnership with the PepsiCo Foundation and PepsiCo, Inc. and expanded in 2008 with the support of Shell Oil Company. The Escalera Program:…
Descriptors: Career Planning, Youth Programs, Educational Attainment, Access to Information
Haliburton, Francene – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Research shows that the role of the K-12 principal is a significant factor in school improvement. Principal preparation programs have been criticized for inadequately preparing their graduates for the challenges they must face in K-12 schools. Since higher education faculty members directly impact the success of their programs (Bartlett, 2003),…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Change, Principals
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Mullen, Carol A.; Harris, Sandra; Pryor, Caroline R.; Browne-Ferrigno, Tricia – Journal of School Leadership, 2008
This discussion focuses on the intersection of two dissonant concepts of importance in today's educational scene--democracy and accountability. In this article, we describe how these conflicting ideologies might be resolved, theoretically and practically, through democratically accountable leadership--that is, the dual necessity of educational…
Descriptors: Democracy, Accountability, Instructional Leadership, Change Agents
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James, Joyce; Green, Deborah; Rodriguez, Carolyne; Fong, Rowena – Child Welfare, 2008
In 2005 the Texas 79th legislature passed Senate Bill 6, which included mandates to address disproportionality. This article will describe how the Texas Department of Family Protective Services in collaboration with Casey Family Programs' Texas State Strategy systems improvement initiative is addressing disproportionality statewide through…
Descriptors: Disproportionate Representation, State Programs, Racial Bias, Child Welfare
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Falls, Leigh; Jara, Teresa; Sever, Tim – Journal of Leadership Education, 2009
Managing change processes, resistance to change, and organizational members' emotional reactions to change are crucial skills for future educational leaders to learn. Our case study is based on a workshop conducted using two experiential exercises to facilitate current educational leadership doctoral students' reflections on their own reactions to…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Workshops, Instructional Leadership, Graduate Students
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