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Ogunbawo, Dolapo – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2012
The provision of customized black and minority ethnic (BME) leadership courses and programmes is one of the measures being employed to address the under-representation of teachers and school leaders from minority ethnic backgrounds. This strategy has always attracted controversy as opinions have been divided about its value and benefits. Yet there…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Foreign Countries, Leadership, Instructional Leadership
Ricken, Jeremy S. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this study is to determine how the leadership practices and guiding values of a professional learning community affect the nature of the professional relationships among teachers. For purposes of this study, professional relationships are defined as the purposeful interactions, communications, and connections between teachers…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Instructional Leadership, Leadership Styles, Educational Practices
Samples, Roger – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This study seeks to describe how elementary principals in a large Washington school district perceived the district office administration's implementation of Response to Intervention over a four-year period. RTI is a widely used intervention system that requires schools to assess whether each of their students is learning, adapting instruction for…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Action Research, Informal Assessment, Program Implementation
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James-Wilson, Sonia; Hancock, Michele – Journal of Staff Development, 2011
Teachers are leaders when they function in professional learning communities to affect student learning, contribute to school improvement, inspire excellence in practice, and empower stakeholders to participate in educational improvement. From an equity perspective, teachers also lead when they serve as change agents who collaborate to use…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Urban Teaching, Teacher Leadership, Leadership Training
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Law, Edmond H. F. – School Leadership & Management, 2011
In recent years international trends towards teacher empowerment and leadership have gained increased attraction in East Asia's education policy and practice. Yet, as scholars have noted, the values underlying these practices often conflict with traditional cultural norms of East Asian societies which stress hierarchical and status differences.…
Descriptors: Mathematics Curriculum, Teacher Empowerment, Curriculum Development, Team Training
Metzgar, Vicki H. – ProQuest LLC, 2008
The phenomenon of teacher leadership has been much studied but, until now, there has not been an adequate methodology for measuring teacher leadership quantitatively. This study is based on the development of an instrument that is a school-based survey which asks teachers to rate the frequency with which certain teacher leadership behaviors are…
Descriptors: Teacher Leadership, Teacher Behavior, Rating Scales, Teacher Surveys
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Wodi, Iniye Irene; Oluwatayo, Gbenga Kayode; Onyima, Nonye Blessing – African Higher Education Review, 2014
The study was carried out to establish the competencies of graduate teachers who graduated from teacher education programs between the year 2005 and 2010. Multi-stage sampling was used in selecting 432 respondents comprising educational administrators and graduate teachers working in the three levels of education across two states of Southern…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Competencies, Teacher Education Programs, College Graduates
Desravines, Jean; Aquino, Jaime; Fenton, Benjamin – New Leaders, 2016
This leadership framework, based on practices employed by some the nation's most successful principals, can be used to diagnose and address school needs. The framework is excerpted from "Breakthrough Principals" © 2016 by Jean Desravines, Jaime Aquino, Benjamin Fenton, and New Leaders, published by Jossey-Bass, a Wiley brand. The…
Descriptors: Principals, Leadership Responsibility, Transformational Leadership, Curriculum
Bicehouse, Vaughn L. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This single-subject study used the art and science of portraiture to illuminate a veteran special education teacher who is meeting the needs of her students with disabilities. This qualitative study was not done for the purposes of generalization but rather to show how this remarkable and effective special educator acts as an inspirational…
Descriptors: Special Education Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Experienced Teachers, High Stakes Tests
Morton, Cynthia – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Antisocial behavior has a direct impact on the public elementary school setting. While considerable research has been conducted on collegiality in postsecondary schools, this study addressed the gap in practice concerning the lack of attention in regard to the impact of antisocial behavior on collegial relationships in the elementary school…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Antisocial Behavior, Conflict, Systems Approach
Jackson, Janice K. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study focus on the question: "How do high school principals, regarded as having skills in developing the instructional capacity of teachers, exercise their leadership to promote the development of teacher's instructional capacity in three primary contexts; whole school, content department or grade level teams and individually?"…
Descriptors: Teacher Empowerment, Observation, Adult Learning, Interviews
Stoelinga, Sara Ray; Mangin, Melinda M. – Teachers College Press, 2010
This book examines the work of elementary-level, non-supervisory, school-embedded, instructional teacher leader roles using research-based case studies. Instructional teacher leaders aim to help teachers develop the skills and knowledge necessary for continued instructional improvement and, ultimately, enhanced student learning. The authors use…
Descriptors: Instructional Improvement, Instructional Materials, Case Studies, Teacher Leadership
Podjasek, Heidi L. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This qualitative, phenomenological study focused on listening to the voices of women teacher leaders regarding their leadership experiences within one elementary school. The question guiding this dissertation was "How do women elementary school teacher leaders perceive leadership?" Within the stories of the participants, two essential theme…
Descriptors: Women Faculty, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Leadership, Teacher Attitudes
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Russell, Felice Atesoglu – TESOL Journal, 2012
This article details a study that focused on the supports that enabled an English language learner (ELL) facilitator to contribute to a culture of collaboration between the English as a Second Language (ESL) and Language Arts Departments to more effectively meet the instructional needs of ELLs in one culturally and linguistically diverse high…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Adolescents, Educational Needs, Student Needs
Dininno, Margaret A. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Business leaders, United States citizens, and American politicians continue to seek school reform as a means for providing the United States with a workforce consisting of employees who possess 21st century skills. The development of teacher transformational leadership and the use of distributed leadership practices are needed to create public…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Teacher Leadership, Transformational Leadership, Participative Decision Making
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