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Toward a Leadership Practice Field (m12926)
Keywords: Administration, Education, Leadership
Summary: This article explores the possibility of providing potential administrators an opportunity to practice and perfect their administrative skills before they face the challenge of the “real world.” Other professions have practice fields. Why shouldn’t we have administrator-training programs?
Subject: Social Sciences
Language: English
Popularity: 50.66%
Revised: 2005-07-24
Revisions: New
The Role of Organizational Climate and Culture in the School Improvement Process: A Review of the Knowledge Base (m13465)
Keywords: change, educational administration, knowledge base, leadership, reform, school climate, school culture, school improvement
Summary: The professional knowledge base is replete with theoretical postulations, research findings, and practitioner reflections on school improvement, school climate, and school culture. However, surprisingly little has been written that explains the complex role that school climate and culture can play in the school improvement process. The purpose of this article ... school improvement?
Subject: Social Sciences
Language: English
Popularity: 98.82%
Revised: 2006-03-02
Revisions: New
The Academy’s Zeitgeist—Standards of Scientific Investigation:Exploring the Impact of Scholarly Work (m13504)
Keywords: educational administration, educational reform, scholarly publication, scientific inquiry, standards
Summary: The academy’s zeitgeist—standards of scientific investigation—has recently come to the fore in the national arena as the dominant moral and intellectual framework for educational research. In this article, we explore the re-emergence of standards of scientific investigation as a significant shaping force in education and the ... the academy.
Subject: Social Sciences
Language: English
Popularity: 70.09%
Revised: 2006-03-09
Revisions: New
Combining Forces in the Development of Programs and Services: Bringing Education, Government, and Nonprofit Agencies Together (m13614)
Author: Bonnie Beyer
Keywords: leadership, non-profit administration, preparation program, public education, university organization
Summary: Public education is one portion of a complex system of society that extends far beyond the walls of the schoolhouse. The administration of educational institutions is impacted and influenced by businesses, communities, governmental agencies, laws, special interest and not-for-profit groups, and the general citizenry. The demand of these ... nonprofit administration.
Subject: Social Sciences
Language: English
Popularity: 70.98%
Revised: 2006-05-16
Revisions: 2
Overcoming Negative Sentiment in Public School Bond Elections: An Analysis of Three Case Studies (m13636)
Keywords: bond election, case studies, school district, school politics
Summary: School districts find that success in bond elections is important to continued growth and development of schools. However, many districts find difficulty in developing the stakeholder support required to obtain a passing margin on bond referenda. In addition, research suggests that districts with prior bond election failures are more likely ... bond elections.
Subject: Social Sciences
Language: English
Popularity: 83.54%
Revised: 2006-05-22
Revisions: 2
The School Leader as Bricoleur:Developing Scholarly Practitioners for Our Schools (m13640)
Keywords: Bricolage, Bricoleur, Critical epistemology, Criticalist, Critical leadership, Critical practice, Democracy, Democratic leadership, Epistemology, Inquiry-of-practice, Knowledge-of-practice, Leadership practice, Leadership praxis, Leadership preparation, New epistemology, New scholarship, Post-formal, Praxis, Scholarly inquiry, Scholarly knowledge, Scholarly practice, Scholar-practitioner, Scholar-practitioner leader, Scholar-practitioner leadership, Social justice
Summary: Bricoleur, as presented herein, is used metaphorically and in a postmodern or post-formal (Kincheloe & Steinberg, 1999) sense to represent methods, practices and cultural materials that the scholar-practitioner uses as s/he interacts in the complex web of relationships among knowledge, inquiry, practice, and learning. The purpose of this ... and society.
Subject: Humanities, Science and Technology
Language: English
Popularity: 79.82%
Revised: 2006-06-09
Revisions: 2
Social Justice: A Model for Unraveling the Ethics of Administrative Discourse (m13648)
Author: K. McKerrow
Keywords: curriculum model, educational administration, educational discourse, ethics, leadership, morals, social justice
Summary: This article attempts to capitalize on the current efforts to examine the traditional discourse, to consider one that focuses on ethics, to examine resistance to alternative discourses, and to provide a tentative educational administration curriculum model that reflects ethics at the core of everything that is taught in educational administration ... administrative narrative.
Subject: Social Sciences
Language: English
Popularity: 82.44%
Revised: 2006-06-06
Revisions: New
Step-Up-To-Excellence:A Change Navigation Protocol for Transforming School Systems (m13656)
Keywords: change, excellence, school
Summary: This article presents a protocol change leaders can use to navigate whole-system change in their school districts. The information describing the protocol will help change leaders in school districts and policymakers interested in whole-district change answer the question, “How do we transform our entire school system”? The protocol ... this article.
Subject: Social Sciences
Language: English
Popularity: 92.76%
Revised: 2006-06-09
Revisions: New
CREDITING THE PAST, CHALLENGING THE PRESENT, CREATING THE FUTURE (m12868)
Keywords: challenging the present, creating the future, crediting the past, Educational leadership, ELCC, ISLLC Standards, Knowledge base, Leadership, NCPEA, No child left behind, Principal preparation, School leadership, Standards, UCEA
Summary: Nationally recognized experts in the field of educational leadership and administration contribute to this book, with chapters focused on the past, present, and future of the preparation of our nation's school leaders. Every field of professional practice must periodically reflect on its past, assess current conditions, and chart a ... current developments.
Subject: Science and Technology
Language: English
Popularity: 68.02%
Revised: 2009-11-03
Revisions: 7
Analyzing the Leadership Behavior of School Principals (m13813)
Keywords: leadership behavior, principal leadership, school culture
Summary: The authors describe various methods of measuring a principal’s leadership behavior. They have developed a new survey instrument that can be used to analyze the leadership behavior/style of a principal. The instrument consists of 49 positive and negative behaviors that measure how a principal interacts with staff in the ... student achievement.
Subject: Social Sciences
Language: English
Popularity: 97.87%
Revised: 2006-08-21
Revisions: New
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