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Hulpia, Hester; Devos, Geert – Educational Studies, 2009
The main purpose of this study was to map school leaders' perceptions concerning the cooperation of the leadership team, the distribution of leadership functions and participative decision-making, and to asses their relative weight in terms of predicting school leaders' job satisfaction. Also, the effect of demographical and structural school…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, School Size, Cooperation, Multiple Regression Analysis
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Tondeur, Jo; van Keer, Hilde; van Braak, Johan; Valcke, Martin – Computers & Education, 2008
Despite the assumption that the integration of ICT influences the entire school system, research focusing on ICT in schools is generally limited to the study of variables at class level. In contrast to these studies, the present research explores ICT integration from a school improvement approach. More particularly, it examines the local school…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Environment, School Policy, Principals
Noonan, James H. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Since the 1999 Columbine High School shooting school administrators have been tasked with creating positive education environments while also maximizing the safety of the students and staff. However, limited resources require school administrators to only employ safety policies which are actually effective in reducing crime. In order to help…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Evidence, Secondary Schools, Crime
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Flynt, Samuel W.; Morton, Rhonda Collins – Education, 2008
According to the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center, approximately 3 out of every 10 students in today's schools are affected as bully, victim, or both. Olweus (1993), a leading authority on bullying, defines a bully as a person who demonstrates repetitive aggressive…
Descriptors: Violence, Bullying, Aggression, Prevention
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Magno, Cathryn – European Education, 2009
Although Azerbaijan's education sector has experienced intermittent democratization efforts since independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, school leadership has remained untouched. This article argues that while Anglo-American models such as transformational and distributed leadership could benefit the schools, based on interview and…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Foreign Countries, Cultural Context, Instructional Leadership
Ramirez, Heidi A.; Schofield, Lynne Steuerle; Black, Melissa – Urban Education Collaborative, 2009
The School District of Philadelphia (SDP), like many other urban school districts, struggles to increase its hiring and retention of experienced and highly qualified teachers in its low-performing/high-need schools. Toward the goal of improving teacher quality and the experience balance, particularly in hard-to-staff schools, the Philadelphia…
Descriptors: Principals, Teacher Selection, Urban Schools, School Districts
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Reeder, A. I.; Jopson, J. A.; Gray, A. – Health Education Research, 2009
The SunSmart Schools Accreditation Programme (SSAP) was launched as a national programme in October 2005 to help reduce the risk of excessive child exposure to ultraviolet radiation. As part of the need for evaluation, this paper reports the findings of a national survey of a randomly selected sample of approximately 12% of New Zealand primary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Evaluation Criteria, Mail Surveys, Elementary School Students
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Bosker, R. J.; Branderhorst, E. M.; Visscher, A. J. – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2007
Although most secondary schools do use management information systems (MISs), these systems tend not to be used to support higher order managerial activities but are currently primarily used for clerical purposes. This situation is unsatisfactory as MISs fully utilised could offer invaluable support to schools, which are increasingly being granted…
Descriptors: Secondary Schools, Management Information Systems, School Policy, Principals
Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), 2008
Bullying and harassment negatively affect the learning environment, and school principals can make a difference. Previous research has found that teachers see having a supportive principal as critical to changing school climate. Yet not all principals may have the experience, skills or knowledge to address lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Bullying, Elementary Secondary Education, School Safety
Young, Ellie L.; Ashbaker, Betty Y. – Principal Leadership, 2008
This article discusses ways on how to address the problem of sexual harassment in schools. Sexual harassment--simply defined as any unwanted and unwelcome sexual behavior--is a sensitive topic. Merely providing students, parents, and staff members with information about the school's sexual harassment policy is insufficient; schools must take…
Descriptors: Sexual Harassment, Sexuality, Educational Environment, Principals
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Bustamante, Rebecca M.; Nelson, Judith A.; Onwuegbuzie, Anthony J. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2009
Purpose: The initial purpose of this mixed methods study was to assess the instrument fidelity and construct-related validity of a 33-item instrument called the Schoolwide Cultural Competence Observation Checklist (SCCOC) by eliciting school leaders' views. The SCCOC was designed as one tool for use in conducting school culture audits, which…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, School Culture, Instructional Leadership, Leadership Training
Maxwell, Lesli A. – Education Week, 2007
The excesses of the modern prom often require principals to play the roles of police, fashion arbiters, and even parents. In the midst of the 2007 junior and senior prom season, school leaders attest to a mounting list of policies, regulations, and security measures they are enforcing for the year's big social event. Indeed, the prom, a…
Descriptors: Principals, Homosexuality, Drinking, Administrator Role
Goertz, Margaret E.; Olah, Leslie Nabors; Riggan, Matthew – Consortium for Policy Research in Education, 2009
The purpose of this exploratory study is to examine the use of interim assessments and the policy supports that promote use to improve instruction, focusing on elementary school mathematics. The authors use the term "interim assessments" to refer to assessments that a) evaluate student knowledge and skills, typically within a limited…
Descriptors: Elementary School Mathematics, Formative Evaluation, Data Analysis, Elementary School Teachers
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Nolle, Kacey Lee; Guerino, Paul; Dinkes, Rachel; Chandler, Kathryn – National Center for Education Statistics, 2007
This report presents findings on crime and violence in U.S. public schools, using data from the 2005-06 School Survey on Crime and Safety (SSOCS:2006). Developed by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) and supported by the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools of the U.S. Department of Education, SSOCS asks public school principals…
Descriptors: Crime, Violence, School Safety, Public Schools
Rallis, Sharon F.; Rossman, Gretchen B.; Cobb, Casey D.; Reagan, Timothy G.; Kuntz, Aaron – Corwin Press, 2007
This companion book to "Principals of Dynamic Schools" and "Dynamic Teachers" brings to life the process of making and enacting educational policy and helps decision makers evaluate, interpret, and analyze the policies that govern their schools. In accessible language, this book presents educational leaders with a conceptual framework for…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, School Policy, Instructional Leadership, Principals
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