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Cosner, Shelby – Urban Education, 2011
This article reports findings from a 3-year longitudinal qualitative case study conducted in three urban elementary schools that examined the ways in which local leadership supported the initiation and early development of evidence-based grade-level collaboration as a mechanism for improving student literacy learning. Findings suggest eight key…
Descriptors: Evidence, Elementary Schools, Educational Change, Literacy
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White, Kate; Ozkanli, Ozlem – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2011
This paper analyses differences in perceptions of gender and leadership though qualitative interviews with 45 senior managers in Australia and Turkey. The literature suggests that masculine models of leadership are changing with both women and many men preferring transformational leadership styles. The research found that there were different…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Discrimination, Transformational Leadership, Leadership
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Melville-Ross, Tim – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2010
In the private sector, it is clear that the chair is in charge of the board and the CEO in charge of the company. But in the author's view the chair's principal role is to act as an adviser or counsellor to the CEO and senior colleagues--hence the wisdom of having a chair who is involved in other organisations and the preference for people of a…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Leadership, Governance
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Woods, Charlotte Emma – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2011
This article is primarily methodological but has dual aims. First, it makes a case for Q methodology as an effective and so far little exploited means of capturing, comparing and contrasting individual perspectives on a specific question in the field of educational leadership. In common with other research approaches designed to uncover the…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Q Methodology, Foreign Countries, Statistical Analysis
Younghans, Barry C. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this qualitative study was to discover how the behaviors of Indiana School district-level leaders create a culture of instructional, peer coaching in the district. An additional purpose was to discover any similarities between how district level leaders and leaders from different sized corporations behaved to create a climate of…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Administrator Role, Coaching (Performance), School Districts
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Landry, Janice – Canadian Journal of University Continuing Education, 2011
This article is based on a study that explored the professional lives of eight leaders of continuing education in Canadian universities, with a focus on their administrative role, to provide a deeper understanding of how they live within their practice (lived experience). A practical listing of 56 horizons of experience was identified, useful as…
Descriptors: Universities, Continuing Education, Leadership, Teaching Methods
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Thomson, Pat; Hall, Christine – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2011
Scholars of educational change agree that leaders need to develop a vision, build capacity and ensure ownership of change by staff. We argue that understanding the actual work that leaders must do in order to convert these categories into action, requires a social practice approach. Taking the notion of sense-making as a social practice, drawn…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Urban Schools, Ethnography, School Culture
Hickey, Wesley D.; Gill, Peggy B.; Brown, Lakesha – Scholar-Practitioner Quarterly, 2011
The scholar-practitioner approach to leadership has the potential for effectiveness in developing countries through contextual understanding of unique circumstances. The purpose of this study was to survey leadership perceptions of principals in the Toledo District of Belize. This data, in the tradition of scholar-practitioner involvement, was…
Descriptors: Action Research, Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Leadership
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Pilbeam, Colin; Jamieson, Ian – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2010
With the global increase in networked forms of organizations come new challenges for the conceptualization and practice of management and leadership. Universities have a networked organizational form being composed internally of multiple groups with both complementary and conflicting characteristics and expectations, and interfacing externally…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Leadership, Administrator Role, Interviews
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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
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Jacobson, Stephen – International Journal of Educational Management, 2011
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of leadership on student achievement and sustained school success, especially in challenging, high-poverty schools. Design/methodology/approach: The paper combines a review of the leadership literature with findings drawn from longitudinal studies of the International Successful School…
Descriptors: Poverty, Academic Achievement, Longitudinal Studies, Administrator Effectiveness
Thessin, Rebecca Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Numerous districts are implementing Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) as a part of reform efforts to improve student achievement to meet external accountability mandates. Few districts, however, have considered the essential supports and components that teachers working in PLCs require for these teams to result in instructional improvement.…
Descriptors: Instructional Improvement, Teacher Surveys, Educational Change, Qualitative Research
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Mintrop, Heinrich – Journal of Educational Administration, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the tensions between external accountability obligations, educator's professional values, and student needs. Strategic, cognitive, and moral dimensions of this tension are captured with the central category of integrity. Design/methodology/approach: This is a mixed methods study that compares five…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, School Effectiveness, Comparative Analysis, Integrity
Newell, Marylin B. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
As the higher education industry considers the leadership implications of globalization, technological advances, and an increasingly complex market, the traditional role of the college president may need to be redefined. To determine whether the role of presidents in for-profit colleges--particularly those owned by publicly traded companies--could…
Descriptors: Credentials, Corporations, Leadership, College Presidents
Alford, Kenneth Ray – Online Submission, 2010
This paper discusses mathematics curriculum development throughout the past century and incorporates a discussion of appropriate leadership style needed to bring about effective change. School leaders must be cognizant of the commitment and competence of the faculty within their school for successful curriculum development to take place.…
Descriptors: Mathematics Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Leadership Styles, Leadership
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