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Chronic student absenteeism: implications for school leaders
Consistent school attendance is critical if students are to build and maintain a foundation for ongoing learning and academic success throughout life. When students are not in attendance, they miss essential instruction, which often times cannot be replicated. They miss the incidental learning that …
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Understanding Experiences Of Gratitude In Elementary Teachers: Implications For School Leaders
… and focusing on what one can be grateful for has positive outcomes in life. The benefits discovered include increases in subjective well-being and life satisfaction, better interpersonal relationships, and increases in pro-social behavior. In the school setting, research has found that …
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Technology Integration in Middle School Mathematics and Reading Achievement: Implications for School Leaders
Educational leaders must support teachers in facilitating successful technology integration to impact teaching and learning. To provide this support, leaders need to understand what comprises effective integration of technology to have an impact on student achievement. This study examined the …
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COMPARING INCORRECT ANSWER PERCENTAGE DISPERSIONS IN STATEWIDE READING COMPREHENSION SCORES AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR SCHOOL LEADERS
… a 100% incorrect answer anomaly was revealed for Objective 2 – Applying Literary Elements for Grade 6 students. From these results, educational leaders need to examine more closely specific objectives and test items so that they can determine underlying reasons for students not answering these …
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Performance of Students In a Middle School Gifted and Talented Academy Program: Implications for School Leaders
Public education reform combined with the school choice movement calls for middle school leaders to offer a competitive and differentiated educational experience that meets middle school learners at their level. While some students need on-level education, there is a large population of learners …
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A COMPARISON OF THE TWO WAY DUAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL BILINGUAL PROGRAMS ON TAKS READING ACHIEVEMENT: IMPLICATIONS FOR SCHOOL LEADERS
… and English only students has been documented for decades. A study of the National Assessment of Education Progress in 2005 highlighted a 46% gap between English language learners and English-only students (NCES, 2006). With the Hispanic population growing at a rapid pace, meeting the needs of …
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The Effects of a Middle School Dropout Prevention Program on the Academic Achievement of At-Risk Students: Implications for School Leaders
Approximately 27% of students drop out of school each year in the United States (Dianda, 2008). Many of these students complete graduation requirements later giving the United States a 93% high school completion rate (U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, 2014). …
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A case study of peer-driven efforts to improve instructional effectiveness during teacher absences: Implications for school leaders in an era of accountability
… research was to conduct a case study of the role leadership, in this case the school administrator, plays in ensuring the quality of learning opportunities provided to students when the regular classroom teacher is absent. The regular classroom teacher, the substitute teacher, and the students are …
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The Impact of Thinking Maps Instruction on Reading Comprehension of Third Grade Students in a Large Urban School District: Implications for School Leaders
… of the Texas accountability system increasing, schools are searching for resources to help improve thinking and learning. The No Child Left Behind Act emphasizes the federal government’s pledge to improve proficiency of readers by the third grade through the use of research-based reading …
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An Exploration Of The Manner In Which Personal Spirituality Influences Five New Hampshire Principals’ Decision-Making
<p>Educational leaders face difficult decisions on a regular basis. These decisions, often associated with educational leadership and organizational change, are influenced by a variety of factors including the leader’s personal spirituality. This phenomenological study explores the manner in which …
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Teachers’ Perceptions Of Restorative Practices In K–8 Classrooms
… the connection to social–emotional learning and school climate, yet there is limited understanding of how teachers perceive these practices and use them in their classroom. The purpose of this study was to examine the phenomenon of restorative practices including when, where, and how teachers use …
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Transformational Leadership Teams and Implementing Multi-Tiered Systems of Support [MTSS] in the Context of an Urban All-Male Catholic High School: Bridging the Gap to Academic Identity and Student Efficacy
… Systems of Support (MTSS) at Garfield High School, an urban all-male Catholic high school in Chicago. The study aimed to understand the perceptions and experiences of school leaders and stakeholders in facilitating MTSS implementation. Using Tony Wagner's 4C Framework of Context, Culture, …
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The Impact of Mindset, Relationships, Engagement, and Hope on Predicting High School Students’ Level of Risk
Failing to complete high school has lasting personal, social, and economic consequences for students. Multiple factors, including low or failing grades, poor school attendance, and low standardized test scores place students at risk of dropping out of school. Schools, state, and federal government …
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Building leadership stability : exploring the relationship between superintendent tenure and principal retention rate
… 08/01/2026] Superintendent tenure is critical to school district stability, whereas principal retention is significant to school success. Retaining principals is among superintendents' key tasks, but the relationship between a superintendent's tenure in a school district and the rate at which …
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Teacher Perceptions Regarding Teacher Retention in an Urban Middle School: What School Leaders Need to Know
The new terminology in public school districts is “urban education” which breeds an entirely new scope of needs for public urban school success. Teachers who work in urban schools with large numbers of low socio-economic minority students feel less satisfied and are more likely to turn over; …
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Perceptions of the Role of the Principal in the Development, Implementation, and Continuation of a Series Reading Program
… play a key role in the reading programs at their school. The purpose of this study was to identify perceptions of selected elementary principals and teachers regarding the principal's role in the development, implementation, and continuation of an effective series reading program. Through this …
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A comparison of students in single-sex classes and coeducational classes in high poverty elementary schools in mathematics and reading achievement
… enrolled in seven high poverty public elementary schools during the 2007-2008 school term. The experimental group consisted of 347 students taught in single-sex classes. The control group contained 503 students who were taught in coeducational classrooms within the same schools. Four distinct …
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Who do you think you are? An arts-based narrative inquiry of teacher personal identity and professional learning
… teachers’ lived experiences, which are essential for understanding their capacity to both learn and teach. As a result, district and school leadership practices might be questioned whether there is adequate consideration of the personal “self” when planning professional learning opportunities. …
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Factors that Affect Retention of Novice Teachers in Hard-to-Staff High Schools in Virginia
… within the Kindergarten--Grade 12 teacher workforce are distressing, and the teaching profession has a relatively high turnover rate compared to other occupations. The Commonwealth of Virginia encounters many challenges when attempting to retain highly qualified teachers in schools. Despite the …
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A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study of School Administrators’ Participation in Personal Learning Networks and Privacy Issues
… phenomenological study was to understand how school administrators made sense of their experience utilizing social networking tools to participate in personal learning networks (PLN) while managing privacy. As school administrators digitally collaborate with PLN colleagues, they must construct …
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