Download or read book A Multiple Site Case Study of Leadership and Embedded Professional Development written by Jonah M. Schenker and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multiple site case study of leadership and embedded professional development examines two districts that have created systems that are charged with developing teachers to better meet the needs of our children within the current landscape. The aim of this research is to answer the three research questions below in hopes of contributing to the field components of leadership and models that impact teacher instruction. The research for this multiple-site case study took place in two, three-to-five day site visits where interviews of the system leaders in both sites and instructional level staff were conducted. Also included were observations of professional development sessions and classroom instruction. The data gathered in each site was analyzed and findings from both sites were examined in a cross case synthesis to answer the questions below. The research questions that guided the research were: What role does a system leader play in embedded professional development? What are the factors that influence the implementation and sustainability of embedded professional development at the building level? What is the perceived impact of embedded professional development on teacher practice? In this multiple-site case study data was examined through three step triangulation process. Documents including professional development plans and outlines as well as state report cards and district websites were analyzed to highlight themes from each district. Second, interviews were conducted at the system and building level as well as the teacher level. The findings from the interview data were compared to the themes from district documents, yielding another set of iv common themes. These themes were utilized in the last step of the triangulation process during the walk-throughs of classrooms and professional development sessions. This process and the data from the triangulation process formed the basis for the key findings, recommendations, and conclusions. The key findings are summaries of findings from the cross case synthesis. The key findings provide the data for the recommendations and conclusion of this study. Research question one has five key findings. There are two key findings for research question two and four for research question three. The conclusions include the vital role of leadership, sustainability factors, and change in culture with regard to models of embedded professional development.

Download or read book Teacher Leadership and Professional Development written by Alex Alexandrou and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-06 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interest in and knowledge of leadership and learning, separately and together, is an international and continuing phenomenon. This book adds to a somewhat under-researched aspect of the field. It focuses both on a particular form of leadership – teacher leadership, and on a particular form of learning – professional development. It considers the connection between teacher leadership and professional development and the first chapter relates this connection to a ‘Leadership for Learning’ conceptual framework, developed through an international, three-year project. The book’s chapters explore teacher leadership and professional development from a number of perspectives, giving rise to three points of particular significance. Firstly the chapters show that, either by accident or design, there is a growing cadre of teacher leaders emerging from a multitude of professional development activities and initiatives. Secondly, a number of new conceptual frameworks are put forward, alongside the adaption and development of extant ones that add to the ever-increasing theorisation of educational leadership and professional development literature. Thirdly, the chapters provide evidence of the connections between leadership and learning as conceptualised in the ‘Leadership for Learning’ framework. This book was originally published as a special issue of Professional Development in Education.

Download or read book Reach the Highest Standard in Professional Learning Learning Designs written by Eleanor Drago-Severson and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The right learning design can support professional growth! Learning Forward is a leader in understanding and advancing professional learning that leads to student success. This series explores Learning Forward’s seven Standards for Professional Learning which outline the characteristics of effective professional learning that, collectively, advance teaching and learning. In this volume, you’ll get original essays, an inspirational case study, and detailed guidance on implementing the Design standard. Deepen your knowledge of standards with An original essay by Eleanor Drago-Severson that offers a fresh take on designs for professional learning that is grounded in adult developmental theory Practical tools that assist readers in selecting appropriate learning designs that promote educator growth Examples of powerful designs for professional learning that are job-embedded, promote active engagement, and support implementation With this book, educators will reach new heights of professional growth and students will reap the benefits.

Download or read book Embedded Multi Level Leadership in Elite Sport written by Svein S. Andersen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-23 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book represents an alternative perspective on international elite sport systems. It focusses on the embedded multi-level nature of leadership, and the scope that this might give for degrees of leadership autonomy and discretion. The chapters show how mechanisms of leadership on different levels interact. The nature and mix of leadership mechanisms reflect values and expectations related to specific political, normative and commercial sport contexts. Three introductory chapters outline key elements of these dimensions of elite sport contexts. Seven empirical cases illustrate how national contexts facilitate and constrain leadership practices, related to specific sports across Russia, China, Ghana, Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, Norway and the US. The final chapter discusses embedded multi-level leadership from a comparative perspective. Based on the countries covered, the book distinguishes between three groups: state-dominated systems, state-elite sport partnership and countries with a passive state, with no state intervention. This book is important reading for researchers and students with an interest in sport management, sport development, sport policy and sport governance, as well as for policy-makers, performance directors and managers working in elite sport.

Download or read book Reach the Highest Standard in Professional Learning Outcomes written by Delores B. Lindsey and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2015-06-18 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professional development that increases educator effectiveness and student success! This volume gives teachers and administrators a detailed roadmap for implementing the Outcomes standard. Deepen you knowledge of this standard with: An original essay by Delores B. Lindsey and Randall B. Lindsey on using the lens of Cultural Proficiency to highlight the theme of educational equity that is embedded in the standard Practical tools that guide leaders in finding coherence between performance standards for educators and curriculum standards for students A powerful case study to illustrate how the standard was enacted across a major urban school district With this book, educators will reach new heights in professional growth and students will reap the benefits!

Download or read book Reach the Highest Standard in Professional Learning Learning Designs written by Eleanor Drago-Severson and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The right learning design can support professional growth! Learning Forward is a leader in understanding and advancing professional learning that leads to student success. This series explores Learning Forward’s seven Standards for Professional Learning which outline the characteristics of effective professional learning that, collectively, advance teaching and learning. In this volume, you’ll get original essays, an inspirational case study, and detailed guidance on implementing the Design standard. Deepen your knowledge of standards with An original essay by Eleanor Drago-Severson that offers a fresh take on designs for professional learning that is grounded in adult developmental theory Practical tools that assist readers in selecting appropriate learning designs that promote educator growth Examples of powerful designs for professional learning that are job-embedded, promote active engagement, and support implementation With this book, educators will reach new heights of professional growth and students will reap the benefits.

Download or read book Assessing Instructional Leadership with the Principal Instructional Management Rating Scale written by Philip Hallinger and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-05-22 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a succinct up-to-date summary of global research on principal instructional leadership as it has evolved over the past 50 years. The book’s particular focus is on the development and use of the Principal Instructional Management Rating Scale (PIMRS). The PIMRS is the most widely used survey instrument designed for assessing instructional leadership for research and practice. It has been used in more than 250 studies in more than 30 countries around the world. The authors provide a detailed conceptual and data-based description of the rationale and development of the instrument as well as the ways in which it has been used in practice. The book also provides, for the first time, a comprehensive assessment of the scale’s measurement properties. This represents essential information for future users of the instrument across different national contexts. Finally, the volume outlines an agenda for improving future research on the role of principal instructional leadership in student learning and school effectiveness.

Download or read book Community Leadership Development written by Mark A. Brennan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-29 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development of leadership capacities addresses a vital and continuing need in communities and organizations as they attempt to adapt to a wide range of social, economic, environmental, and political changes. Leadership development activities that focus on building new skills and fostering new ideas directly shape local and organizational capacity. At the organizational level, leadership is a valued resource as organizations are faced with challenges of limited resources, funding, and other capacities. Community leadership operates within a different domain; an environment with different dynamics, structures, and goals. Community leadership is distinctive in that leaders often do not have formal training or authority to dictate and facilitate change. Instead, community leaders must rely on informal networks of diverse citizens, each with a unique local capacity, as the basis for change. This book brings together classic and contemporary articles drawn from Community Development. Divided into two sections, the book begins with a range of seminal leadership theory and conceptualization pieces. These have been instrumental in shaping leadership development in a wide range of settings. Following the theory section, a variety of research and application chapters are presented. These chapters operationalize theory through applied research and programming, and provide replicable frameworks for future research and programs. This book is a compilation of articles published in the journal Community Development.

Download or read book PROFESSIONAL LEARNING COMMUNITIES A MULTIPLE CASE STUDY OF FOUR ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS by Debra J Martin written by Debra J. Martin and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professional learning communities (PLCs) are a proven construct that enhances learning for both teachers and their students. This mixed-methods multiple-case study explored the relationship between teachers' and administrators' perceptions about professional learning communities and their attributes in four elementary schools in a suburban school district in New Jersey. Multiple data sources included the Professional Learning Community Assessment, principal interviews, teacher focus groups and archival documentation to address the following research questions: (1) What supportive conditions are necessary for professional learning communities to effectively support student and adult learning? (2) How does participation in professional learning communities influence collective learning and application? and (3) How has the leadership role of the principal changed with the implementation of professional learning communities? The findings from both the quantitative and qualitative data presented a comprehensive picture of educators' perceptions about the first year's implementation of professional learning communities in the areas of supportive and shared leadership, collective learning and application, and supportive relational and structural conditions. After analyzing the data of this action research, common themes emerged: focus on student learning, teacher job-embedded learning, collaboration, supportive conditions, collective capacity, results-oriented assessments for learning, and a systematic monitoring and response to each student's proficiency. Other significant conclusions for professional learning community implementation included: (1) collaborative cultures, based on trust and respect, develop over time and allow for risk taking in the learning process; (2) norm building is necessary for effective collaboration; (3) PLC time must be regularly embedded into the teachers' schedule to ensure collective inquiry and dialogue; (4) the principal provides instructional materials and resource staff to support shared practice and continuous learning; and (5) the principal shares information and collaborates on decision-making issues connected to student learning. This study demonstrated that the development of effective, sustainable professional learning communities is a process that develops over time with a principal providing the necessary supportive conditions to enhance levels of trust among all staff so they can work collectively to ensure both student and adult learning.

Download or read book Preparing Principals for a Changing World written by Linda Darling-Hammond and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-11-04 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preparing Principals for a Changing World provides a hands-on resource for creating and implementing effective policies and programs for developing expert school leaders. Written by acclaimed author and educator Linda Darling-Hammond and experts Debra Meyerson, Michelle LaPointe, and Margaret Terry Orr, this important book examines the characteristics of successful educational leadership programs and offers concrete recommendations to improve programs nationwide. In a study funded by the Wallace Foundation, Darling-Hammond and the team examined eight exemplary principal development programs, as well as state policies and principals' experiences across the country. Using the data from the study, they reveal how successful programs are structured, the skills and knowledge participants gain, and what they are able to do in practice as school leaders as a result. What do these exemplary programs have in common? Aggressive recruitment; close ties with schools in the community; on-the-ground training under the wing of expert principals, and a strong emphasis on the cutting-edge theories of instructional and transformational leadership. In addition to highlighting the programs' similarities, the study also explains the differences among the programs and sheds light on the effectiveness of approaches and models from different states and contexts?East, West, North, and South; urban and rural; pre-service and in-service. The authors analyze program outcomes for principals and their schools, including illustrative case studies and educators' voices on the influence of programs' strategies for recruitment, internships, mentoring, and coursework. The ideas and suggestions outlined in Preparing Principals for a Changing World are presented with the goal of increasing the number of highly qualified, thoughtful, and innovative educational leaders.

Download or read book New Directions in Educational Leadership Theory written by Scott Eacott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Educational leadership has a rich history of epistemological debate. From the ‘Theory Movement’ of the 1950-1960s, through to Greenfield’s critique of logical empiricism in the 1970s, the emergence of Bates’ and Foster’s Critical Theory of educational administration in the 1980s, and Evers’ and Lakomski’s naturalistic coherentism from1990 to the present time, debates about ways of knowing, doing, and being in the social world have been central to advancing scholarship. However, since the publication of Evers’ and Lakomski’s work, questions of the epistemological preliminaries of research have become somewhat marginalised. This is not to suggest that such discussions are not taking place, but rather that they have been sporadic and piecemeal. In New Directions in Educational Leadership Theory, the contributors sketch possible alternatives for advancing scholarship in educational leadership. The coherence of this volume comes not from the adoption of a single theoretical lens, but rather from its engagement with epistemology, ontology, and methodology. The choice of the plural ‘alternatives’ is deliberate, and its use is to evoke the message that there is more than one way to advance knowledge. The approaches adopted across this collection offer fruitful directions for the field and hopefully will stimulate substantive dialogue and debate in the interest of advancing knowledge. This book was originally published as a special issue of Educational Philosophy and Theory.

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Download or read book Developing Distributed Curriculum Leadership in Hong Kong Schools written by Edmond Hau-fai Law and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-04-07 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book aims to explore distributed leadership in developing curriculum innovations in schools with a target of bringing about theoretical underpinnings in the West with the empirical studies and practices in the East. It examines theoretically the roots of the curriculum leadership studies and practically with the empirical data and case studies in Hong Kong which has been considered a melting pot of the Western concepts and innovations in a land of Eastern cultures. The examination is framed within theoretical frameworks of activity theories, discourse analysis and social network systems. The findings will show the impact of the cultural traditions of Eastern countries in the mediation of the direction of the discourses in teacher meetings and the effectiveness of decision making in the processes of developing school based curriculum leadership. The book is theoretically exploratory with practically examined practices for educational leaders like schools headers and department leaders as well as teachers who aim at asserting greater influence in the educational decision making processes. Topics discussed in the book include: Curriculum leadership functions and patterns of leadership distribution Engaging teachers in reflective practice: tensions between ideological orientations and pragmatic considerations Models of distributed leadership: focus, development and future Initiating, designing and enacting curriculum innovations: procedures and processes This book will appeal to researchers interested in Curriculum Studies, School leadership and comparative education. Those who studies the theory of education and Asian education will also find this book valuable.

Download or read book Teacher Transition into Innovative Learning Environments written by Wesley Imms and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-11-30 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book focuses on how the design and use of innovative learning environments can evolve as teaching practices and education policies change. It addresses how these new environments are used, how teachers are adapting their practices, the challenges that these changes pose, and the effective evaluation of these changes. The book reports on emerging research in learning environments, with a particular emphasis on how teachers are transitioning from traditional classrooms to innovative learning environments. It offers a significant evidence-based global assessment of current research in this field by designers, architects, educators and policy makers. It presents twenty-five cutting-edge projects from researchers in fifteen countries. Thanks to the book’s comprehensive international perspective, which combines theory and practice in a single publication, readers will gain a wealth of new insights.

Download or read book Multiple Case Study Analysis written by Robert E. Stake and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2013-04-29 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining situational complexity is a vital part of social and behavioral science research. This engaging text provides an effective process for studying multiple cases--such as sets of teachers, staff development sessions, or clinics operating in different locations--within one complex program. The process also can be used to investigate broadly occurring phenomena without programmatic links, such as leadership or sibling rivalry. Readers learn to design, analyze, and report studies that balance common issues across the group of cases with the unique features and context of each case. Three actual case reports from a transnational early childhood program illustrate the author's approach, and helpful reproducible worksheets facilitate multicase recording and analysis.

Download or read book Theory to Practice in Teacher Education written by Christine Grima-Farrell and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-08-21 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a theoretically and empirically robust account of what is known about the effective approaches that translate theory to practice in teacher education, presenting evidence from case studies from a diverse range of contexts informed by various methodological foundations. It also provides accounts that support teacher educators involved in both school and university based teacher education. The book offers insights into the translation of theory to practice from the long history of teacher education, the benefit of diverse approaches in terms of the effectiveness of initial teacher education, and the impact of professional standards.

Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance written by K. Anders Ericsson and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-17 with total page 985 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, some of the world's foremost 'experts on expertise' provide scientific knowledge on expertise and expert performance.