Investing in the Modern Day Public School Administrator: Advocating for Change in the Development of Turnaround Principals: A Policy Advocacy Document

<p>I am an elementary principal in the district of this project; and I studied educational research that suggests that in turnaround school situations, the principals who bring about significant gains in student achievement consistently demonstrate a combination of 10 actions within 4 general categories. This is a Winter/Spring 2014 project that involved district leaders and school-based administrators in one of the largest school districts in Florida. The main purpose of the project was to provide research that would convince my district to develop a different system to identify, select, train, and mentor school-based leaders who will be leading the district’s lowest performing schools. This project is important because it can directly affect the growing number of low-performing schools in the district, and ultimately the children’s academic achievement in those schools. If successful, the district also should see a decrease in the number of D and F schools, therefore raising the overall district and school grades.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Ed.D. Doctor of Education

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation - NLU Access

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Educational Leadership

Year dc:date.available

2014

Author dc:creator

• Reimer, Ruth A.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Daniel C. Buckman
• James L. Schott
• Joan Q. Minnis

• Competencies
• Highly Effective Principal
• Turnaround School
• Education
• Educational Administration and Supervision
• Educational Leadership

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.nl.edu/diss/101

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.nl.edu:diss-1104