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Showing 1 to 20 of 60 for “"Leadership for Learning"”.
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Transformative leadership for learning: ensuring high levels of learning for all students
Ensuring that all students are learning at high levels is an important goal for school leaders. This multiple case study examined leadership practices, beliefs, and attitudes in two high schools to describe leadership for learning at these schools. Three bodies of literature were used for this …
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Effective principal leadership practices for dual language strand programming: Bridging leadership for learning and critical bilingual leadership
… United States. The study focuses on effective leadership considerations for principals of strand dual-language programs. In order to gain a complete understanding of current dual language practices and leadership, it will be vital to understand the historical perspective for civil rights and …
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Central office leadership for learning in an Illinois school district: Building collective capacity to improve achievement for all students
… by the demand to increase overall student performance. The 2015 reauthorization, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), continues to require an improvement of instructional effectiveness for all students to close achievement gaps. As our nation’s public school enrollments grow more diverse, …
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Leadership for learning and teacher self-efficacy as the antecedents of teacher collaboration, instructional quality, intended turnover, and equitable teaching practice
Leadership for learning has emerged as a framework that subsumes the core characteristics of instructional, transformational, and distributed leadership. Establishing an empirical measurement model of leadership for learning that simultaneously incorporates the perspectives of individual teachers, …
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Exploring the Incorporation of the Leadership for Learning (LfL) Principles in Ghana: The Case of Two LfL Basic Schools in the Central Region
Abstract Exploring the Incorporation of the Leadership for Learning (LfL) Principles in Ghana: The Case of Two LfL Basic Schools in the Central Region Raymond Chegedua Tangonyire Educational researchers, practitioners and policymakers agree that quality of leadership and learning influence the …
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School effectiveness and the subject leader's influence space: an exploration of the influence of secondary school subject leaders on the professional practice of the members of their departments.
… British secondary schools are able to promote “leadership for learning” by influencing the professional practice of department members. This area has excited much discussion in the literature in recent years, but little work seems to have looked into departmental inter relationships and their …
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A principal interest: leading for learning in high school consolidation
… of consolidation. Furthermore, this study is informed by two separate bodies of literature. The first relates to school district consolidation. The second body of literature framing this study emanates from the leadership for learning literature. Ultimately, understanding any influence the …
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Middle School Principals’ Understandings and Practices of Instructional Leadership
… understand the concept of instructional leadership and, further, perceive their enactments of instructional leadership to build the instructional capacity of the teachers in their schools. Research into instructional leadership indicates that school principals contribute indirectly to …
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Voices of Female, Rural Superintendents as They Implement California's Local Control Funding Formula Policy
… policy as a means to improve student achievement for decades. California played a pivotal roll in the national trend for numerous years; most recently with the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) policy passed in 2013. The purpose of this study was to listen to the voices of female, rural …
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Valuing noncognitive factors and academic progress for elementary leaders: a single-site case study
… are growing implications as to how they promote learning (Conley, 2015; Duckworth et al., 2007; Tough, 2012). Too deeply examine the perceptions and behaviors of an elementary school principal, this case study examined the leadership of one Illinois school principal with a reputation for valuing …
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The role of the Illinois school district superintendent in Common Core State Standards implementation: a case study
Standards-based curricular reform is at the forefront of change in the American public education system. The Common Core State Standards (CCSS), a new set of learning standards in English and mathematics, have become the new bar for students in the vast majority of the nation’s public schools. …
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Evidence-use and role of the superintendent in leading for learning: a case study of a small Illinois rural school district
… role of school principals in promoting student learning, but there has been relatively little focus on the role of the central office administration, specifically the superintendent, as leaders for learning. The school district superintendent's office is often seen as a separate entity that is …
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The Utility of a Theoretical Framework of a Culture of Leadership
… is to determine the utility of a Culture of Leadership Framework for both evaluating and contributing to the formation of a dynamic school culture that infuses leadership up, down, and throughout the membership of the school learning community with students as a central figure. The Culture of …
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Facilitating teacher leadership in Kazakhstan
… with the purpose to facilitate teacher leadership for sustainable improvement of practice and enhancing the teacher’s role in education reform in Kazakhstan. By drawing on a non-positional approach to teacher leadership, this study sought bottom-up approaches to educational reform, …
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Supporting new principals as leaders of learning through mentoring
Mentoring is an established method of support for principals as they commence their role as school leaders. However, there is limited research on the influence of mentoring on the development of leadership practices of newly appointed post-primary school principals in Ireland. As the role of a …
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Instances and principles of distributed leadership: a multiple case study of Illinois middle school principals��� leadership practices
… accountability in education, the challenges of leadership for learning may be too great for one leader. Today’s public school principals may benefit from the support of teachers and others to serve as additional instructional leaders. Many schools are adopting a distributed leadership approach …
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Educational Leadership in Middle Schools: Informal Teacher Leaders
<p>Quality educational leadership has been shown to have a strong positive relationship with student achievement (Louis et al., 2010). Successful schools do not depend upon a single charismatic leader but on many individuals collaborating and using their collective leadership skills (Grissam et …
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A Comparison of Public and Private School Teachers' Job Satisfaction When Controlling for Policy Perspectives, Individual, and Workplace Characteristics
<p>The purpose of this study is to contribute to the empirical literature concerning the factors that contribute to the job satisfaction levels of public and private school teachers. Furthermore, an emphasis is placed on how policy, procedures, and workplace characteristics affect levels of job …
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Assistant Principals and the Phenomenon of Leadership Coaching
… study sought to define and explore executive leadership coaching as a form of professional learning for educational leaders. This was a qualitative phenomenological inquiry into the ways, if any, that leadership coaching impacts the skills and abilities of first-year assistant principals. …
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The Relationship between Leadership Implementation of Multi-Tiered Systems of Support and Student Achievement in Reading and Mathematics in Middle Schools in Georgia
… to the empirical literature concerning leadership role in Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) implementation. MTSS uses an evidence-based model and problem solving to provide academic, behavioral, and social-emotional supports to meet the needs of each student. This study focused on …
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