This article highlights the importance of leadership engagement throughout the leadership learning process, adding to the leadership learning framework literature. We include a brief overview of leadership engagement as it relates to user-centered design (UCD), commonly utilized in information technology companies. The authors offer how UCD can…

This study explores the formation of leaders in Kenyan private Christian chartered universities. The topic of formation has garnered attention in some parts of the world, for example, the United States, but in the majority of the world, issues related to teaching and learning, as well as how the university system functions, continue to dominate…

This study sought to determine whether there was correlation between a superintendent's use of a transformational leadership and levels of collective teacher efficacy. Four research questions were answered in this study: Is there a statistically significant correlation between collective teacher efficacy and school district superintendents'…

This study focused on Finnish leaders who participated in a training program called "Positive Leadership Training". The purpose of this study was to enhance the general understanding regarding the emergence of positive leadership in leaders, as they themselves described. A narrative research approach was chosen, and the data were…

Purpose: Competencies for leadership in higher education have begun to emerge in the literature. Yet to better equip future leaders in higher education, the use of a learning taxonomy may serve as a framework to understand necessary learning for leaders in higher education. The aim of this study is to explore the competencies of higher education…

This study aimed to explore the motivation for university students to become JumpStart AmeriCorps members (volunteers) and to examine the relationship between volunteers' participation in the program and their leadership skills development. A total of 46 participants were surveyed to identify their two main reasons for becoming a JumpStart…

The purpose of this research was to understand faculty mentors' perspectives on the impact of CPED-aligned methodology courses on doctoral students' development as scholarly practitioners. This study was a pilot study and exploratory in nature. Methods included distribution of a survey which included Likert items, as well as open-ended questions.…

The purpose of this?qualitative study?was to identify how advisors describe the norms and culture of teams who qualified for competition in team-based?Leadership Development Events?(LDEs)?at the 2020 Idaho State?Virtual?LDEs.?We extrapolated differences in team norms?and culture?from the Agricultural Issues Forum, Parliamentary Procedure, and…

Purpose: This study facilitated restorative coordinators in co-constructing and proposing solutions to common problems in RJ implementation. Design/methodology/approach: This study used grounded theory to examine barriers to equitable restorative justice (RJ) implementation in the US. Drawing on interviews and focus groups with restorative…

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to increase the knowledge of principals' professional development (PD) by focusing on the arrangements that shape a PD practice initiated to enhance principals' instructional leadership. Design/methodology/approach: The paper draws on findings from a three-year PD initiative in a Swedish school district. The…

Calls for leadership development and associated supports for faculty members are growing in prominence in higher education. Yet traditional leadership development efforts in higher education fail to account for both individual and institutional needs as critical to fostering a leadership pipeline with multiple entry points. This article offers…

This chapter explores the need for an intersectional exploration of class and race to better understand leadership identity, capacity, and efficacy. The authors also offer strategies to support highlighting class and race intersections in leadership learning.

The twin processes of collaborative inquiry and generative dialogue underpin two closely aligned and increasingly influential school leadership development programs, one in Alberta, Canada, and the other in New South Wales, Australia. This paper focuses primarily on the Australian program, the character of which has been strongly influenced by its…

This article reviews the work of two Albertan educators, David Townsend and Pam Adams, in their application of collaborative inquiry to improving school leadership. Collaborative inquiry is essentially a professional practice that has yet not been comprehensively theorized. This article seeks to lay some foundations for a theorization of the…

This qualitative comparative case study focused on two groups of teacher-leaders: one that participated in teacher leadership development training and one group that has not. The setting for this study was looking at two groups of instructional specialist in a large suburban district. Getzels-Guba Social Systems Models is the theoretical framework…