School principals in Illinois face an ethical dilemma when evaluating tenured teachers. Giving an unsatisfactory rating and placing a tenured teacher under a remediation plan opens the door to a time-consuming process filled with legal and financial issues that will strain relat…
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Recent research has revealed that a school’s principal is a vital component in delivering quality education to the school’s students. With that in mind, it seems productive to examine effective principals and what they perceive as shaping their effectiveness. Recognizing that ef…
The purpose of this phenomenological bounded case study was to identify campus principals’ perceptions of how principal mentorship influenced their ability to lead a dual language campus in one Texas school district. The research questions that guided this study examined how the…
Esta investigación examina la evaluación de desempeño desde el punto de vista de los maestros, los directores y las organizaciones magisteriales en el contexto educativo de Puerto Rico, ya que el proceso de evaluación de desempeño requiere de líderes que posean las competencias …
The major aim of this study is to investigate the perception of Saudi Arabia middle school principals and teachers as they pertain to the implementation of characteristics identified in the literature as appropriate for middle school students. The study instrument was a 44-item …
This study investigated the attitudes of principals and teachers toward implementing cooperative learning methods at girls' private middle schools in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Additionally, factors affecting the implementation of cooperative learning at the schools were assessed. Th…
Fifty principals of public high schools in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, were interviewed to identify problems their schools face, initiatives that would address the problems, and barriers to the identification of problems and implementation of solutions. They rated the importance of 4 …
The purpose of this study was to explore the attitudes of principals regarding the provision of special education services using the traditional special education model compared to using the response to intervention model. The major research and related research questions were i…
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between the perceived leadership style of principals and their teachers' practice of the five disciplines of learning schools. One hundred forty-four elementary and middle school teachers participated in this study by com…
Scratch the surface of successful schools and you are likely to find principals aware of their school culture. Peer into failing schools and you will find a leadership marginalizing and ignoring the school culture. The purpose of the study is to examine the impact of principals'…
This study investigated the relationship between teachers' perceptions of principals' transformational leadership skills and teachers' job satisfaction. It also revealed the relationship between principals' demographic characteristics and their perceptions of their ability to be…
Indonesian government has declared in the law No. 20 of 2003 on National Education System to implement school-based management (SBM). SBM is an educational policy that has become established in Western countries. The purpose of the study is to learn how SBM is being implemented …
This research study examines the commonalities among school principals and their role as instructional leaders, their training as school administrators, and their work experience in schools with high concentration of language minority students of Hispanic descent. Ethnography an…
This study was designed to assess public elementary principals' perceptions of the benefits and drawbacks to their School Improvement Plan Process and resulting School Improvement Plan Document. The findings for this qualitative study were gathered from results of the School Imp…
This quantitative investigation focused on women high school principals at Jewish secular schools throughout Israel. Despite challenges, Israeli women have succeeded in obtaining over half of the principal positions at Jewish secular high schools, but the degree to which there i…
Schools are designed to be safe and healthy places for children to grow and learn, and principals are the instructional leader charged with creating this climate. The role of the mandated reporter, which is the role assigned to all individuals who work in schools, is intended to…
Problem Over the last decade, the Ministry of Education in Kuwait undertook the responsibility of reforming the Kuwaiti education system. While it noted the importance of school principals in this reform process, it has not yet focused on the development of school leaders throug…
This study was conducted to investigate the perceptions of secondary school teachers of their principals' supervisory behaviors and of their schools' climate. Furthermore, the study examined the relationship between supervisory behaviors and school climate in Kuwaiti secondary s…