LIVED EXPERIENCE OF NEWLY APPOINTED ASSISTANT PRINCIPALS WHO RECEIVE EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP COACHING

<p>The purpose of this qualitative phenomenographic study was to understand how leadership coaching supported personal growth for new assistant principals. Newly appointed assistant principals from a suburban school district outside metro Atlanta, Georgia were interviewed as part of a professional development model which incorporated leadership coaching into the support mechanisms for new administrators. The professional development model, known as a leadership academy, was instituted by the school district and comprised of multiple learning opportunities of which leadership coaching was one component. This study gathered perceptions of newly appointed assistant principals regarding their perceptions of the effectiveness of leadership coaching and the leadership academy for their personal leadership growth. From a constructivist worldview, in which reality is formed from personal experiences and has multiple meanings, a phenomenographic approach was used to gather data from assistant principals in the form of interviews. Those interviews were transcribed and analyzed through both open and axial coding for variations of participant perceptions toward the effectiveness of leadership coaching. The results show strong, positive perceptions toward the effect of leadership coaching on the reduction of stress, the ability to cope with new obstacles, and the overall positive use of leadership coaching for newly appointed school leaders.</p> <p><em>Keywords</em>: Assistant Principals, Executive Leadership Coaching, Professional Development, Phenomenology, Phenomenography</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership for Learning Dissertations

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Educational Leadership

Year

2018

Author dc:creator

• Townsend, Scott

Contributors dc:contributor

• Dr. Susan Banke
• Dr. Camille Sutton-Brown-Fox

• Assistant Principals
• Executive Leadership Coaching
• Professional Development
• Phenomenography
• Education
• Educational Administration and Supervision
• Educational Leadership

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/educleaddoc_etd/19

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu:educleaddoc_etd-1019