Public school campus administrators shape and build the campus learning environment through the policies and structures that they develop. Clarity through campus expectations and alignment to a common set of standards allows faculty and staff opportunities to align efforts - trainings, modeling opportunities, support networks - and exposure to…

This paper explores the school culture and sense of community of a Midwestern middle school after seven years of personalized learning reform. This mixed method study identified a strong school culture based on the School Culture Triage Survey. Focus group interviews supported the survey findings and attributed the successful implementation and…

In 2014, the National Coalition for Core Arts Standards (NCCAS) released the National Core Arts Standards (NCAS) to encourage excellence in fine arts education and to support educators in implementing best practices. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to understand and explore elementary music teachers' lived experiences regarding…

The problem addressed in this study was the lack of support strategies for special education teachers. The purpose was to describe and understand the perceptions and experiences of special education teachers regarding support strategies available and the strategies needed to teach students with disabilities successfully. Using the modified…

The purposes of this research aimed to 1) study the components of educational management to develop educational quality toward excellence, 2) study the current states, desirable states, and the needs for educational development for enhancing educational quality toward excellence, 3) create and develop the educational management model for enhancing…

This qualitative study aimed to understand the impact of charter school expansion from the perspectives of former school leaders and teachers who experienced charter school expansion in neighborhood school(s). The charter school movement has been at the center of great debate and discussion in various educational platforms and political arenas.…

Established higher education professionals and prospective professionals need to understand that there are standards of accountability that must be defined, studied, understood, and implemented to avoid the many problems that can arise because of improper social media usage. Organization leaders must also understand how and why the opinions…

To address the challenge of low academic results in mathematics the district adopted a new curriculum. After three years of utilizing a problem-based learning mathematics curriculum resource, there is a varied degree of utilization and teacher buy-in with regards to a district implemented problem-based curriculum. During this time, there has been…

In this paper, we report on teachers' and principals' shared perceptions regarding beliefs, rules, trust, and encouragement of new initiatives. Collectively, these are aspects of leadership for learning (LFL) describing an overall shared climate in schools. We demonstrate how these perceptions on school climate differ across teachers and…

To determine the impact of an administrator's decision on student placement in kindergarten classrooms, teachers were asked to share their perceptions on how that decision impacted their ability to deliver instruction and follow the district scope and sequence, as well as how that decision impacts student academic achievement and social and…

With frequent curriculum changes in South Africa since 1994, educational standards and learner performance has been progressing at a slow pace. The role of the principal's instructional leadership come to the fore and we question whether principals are sufficiently equipped with the necessary leadership skills and expertise to lead and manage…

Principals play an essential role in ensuring student success and achievement. This is achieved through an effective principal's vital role in optimizing teacher impact over an entire campus because quality teachers significantly impact student achievement. This study aimed to gain insights that can contribute to a generalized knowledge of how…

"Crossing over to the dark side" is a popular reference to someone's decision to leave the supposed "good, pure, and honest" side of something to go to its "bad, evil, and suspicious" side. This idiom is typically used when an administrator moves into a faculty position or vice versa. While there is a plethora of…

Many teachers report high levels of occupational stress. Teachers' basic need satisfaction is essential for teachers' well-being at work. Social support from school principals is assumed to play an important role for teachers' basic need satisfaction. However, the underlying mechanisms of the relationship between social support from school…

This research article reports on instructional leadership as a controlling function in secondary schools. All the 41 secondary schools in Rangwe Sub County were included in the study and the targeted respondents were teachers and principals. A purposive sampling method was used to select the respondents from each school. A principal self-rating…