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Ting, Shueh-Chin – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2011
Purpose: After reviewing previous research, this study found that few school or educational studies have simultaneously explored both internal marketing and organizational commitment, and of those that have, only direct effects were examined. This study clarifies the relationship between school organization's internal marketing and teachers'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, School Organization, Employer Employee Relationship
Williams Griffin, Sharon – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Federal and state mandates to improve student achievement for all students necessitate change in the way schools operate and are run. The role of the principal has changed and requires different skills to succeed in the 21st century. However, there are few studies that focus on revealing the perspective of a principal who applied a change theory…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, School Turnaround, School Effectiveness, Ethnography
Brown, Angela Antuanette – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The specific purpose of this study was to identify the practices used by leaders of National Blue Ribbon Awarded Schools to successfully turnaround a school or to maintain proficient achievement scores within the school. The school principals answered a four part questionnaire for this study. Part 1 of the questionnaire asked about the extent to…
Descriptors: School Turnaround, Principals, Student Improvement, Academic Achievement
Jameson, Jill – Higher Education Quarterly, 2012
The complex leadership attribute of "negative capability" in managing uncertainty and engendering trust may be amongst the qualities enabling institutions to cope with multiple recent government policy challenges affecting English higher education, including significant increases in student fees. Research findings are reported on changes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Leadership, Individual Characteristics
Fielding, Michael – Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2013
Serious re-examination of participatory traditions of democracy is long overdue. Iconically central to such traditions of democratic education is the practice of whole School Meetings. More usually associated with radical work within the private sector, School Meetings are here explored in detail through two examples from publicly funded…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Democracy, Community Schools, Participative Decision Making
McGrath, Kathleen – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study examines and describes (1) why parents of struggling readers decide they must become active advocates for changes in their child's education and (2) how such parents learn to negotiate school organization in this advocacy. Advocacy is defined as any activity parents go about to access appropriate reading instruction for their child,…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Reading Difficulties, Reading, Reading Programs
Nehring, James H.; Lohmeier, Jill H. – NASSP Bulletin, 2010
This follow-up study presents findings from 11 structured interviews that were conducted with principals engaged in a conversion from a large comprehensive high school to six small schools. Key findings are (a) the greatest barrier to improvement was entrenched instructional patterns and (b) goals of college readiness and social/emotional…
Descriptors: School Organization, Principals, Small Schools, High Schools
Phillips, David E. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Every administrative action a principal will take is reduced to a decision. These decisions are made in an arena of overlapping moralities stemming from the organizational morality in concert with his/her personal morality. As Barnard stated, it is impossible to divorce one from the other. The purpose of this study was to attempt to describe and…
Descriptors: School Organization, Moral Values, Principals, Moral Development
Duke, Daniel L.; Jacobson, Martha – Phi Delta Kappan, 2011
Case studies of two high schools that have been turned around from failing to successful show different ways in which failing high schools can be made to succeed. Both high schools concentrated on first helping incoming freshman, and both reforms were driven by data. They differed in staffing and the focus of their first year of reform.
Descriptors: High Schools, Case Studies, School Effectiveness, Low Achievement
Project Forum, 2009
The purpose of this document is to explore the drivers for reorganization, the common experiences shared by states and the challenges and successes experienced. The goal is to inform staff in other special education units as they consider reorganization. This activity was undertaken as part of an agreement between Project Forum at the National…
Descriptors: Special Education, Surveys, Interviews, School Personnel
Eisold, Kenneth – Schools: Studies in Education, 2009
The organization of a school can best be understood as a loosely coupled set of overlapping systems: the student system concerned with student education and development, the faculty system concerned with maintaining professional standards and effective teaching, the parent system focused on the relationship between the school and the child, and…
Descriptors: School Organization, Administrative Principles, Educational Environment, Systems Approach
Symes, Colin – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2012
In large continental landmasses such as Australia, forms of education, including correspondence schooling, emerged in the early twentieth century that allowed children in remote regions to access education. To make such schooling possible, other "technologies" of state provision were mobilised such as the postal system, rail network, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Correspondence Schools, Distance Education, Home Schooling
Hermann, David Laurence – ProQuest LLC, 2011
In this study of Pennsylvania Charter Schools; the focus was on the qualifications, duties, and role perceptions of the special education supervisors. Using role theory as a theoretical lens, an interpretational framework was developed in order to both form a survey instrument and to assist in interpreting the participant responses. This case…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Special Education, Supervision, Administrator Qualifications
Young, Ellie L.; Caldarella, Paul; Richardson, Michael J.; Young, K. Richard – Guilford Publications, 2011
This much-needed guide shows how to implement positive behavior support (PBS) strategies in secondary settings, using a three-tiered approach. The authors adapt the core ideas of PBS to the developmental context of adolescence and the organizational structures of middle schools and junior and senior high schools. With an emphasis on data-based…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Student Behavior, Behavior Problems, Behavior Disorders
Levine, Thomas H – Improving Schools, 2011
Scholars and reformers in the United States have called for converting large high schools into smaller units to provide a more effective, personal, and culturally responsive education for all students. Current literature argues that such "conversion high schools" should break into fully autonomous small schools rather than more…
Descriptors: High Schools, Culturally Relevant Education, Teacher Collaboration, Teaching Methods