Download or read book Leadership Succession in Public Elementary Schools written by James Merrill Brickey and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Passing the Torch written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study focuses on socially just elementary schools sustaining improvement trends while undergoing leadership transitions. Educational research identifies groups of students demonstrating significant achievement gaps, but notes that the structure of improvement efforts can further marginalize these students. Research identifies social justice principles and practices as an alternative. At the same time, research indicates stalled, or regressed, improvement efforts in the face of leadership transitions. Another body of research identifies principles and characteristics of sustainable leadership across leadership transitions. Research has not examined how schools specifically focused on socially just practices sustain improvement efforts through leadership transitions. To address this gap, I examined the following research question: What beliefs and practices did these leaders express before, during, and after leadership transitions to ensure on-going improvements consistent with sustained social justice leadership? To address the research question, I conducted a multi-case study of three elementary schools. Interviews with the district administrator, predecessor principal, and successor principal provided the primary data for analysis. I also collected documents related to improvement efforts and the succession process. The findings suggest these leaders embraced specific leadership beliefs, establishing a core value based upon social justice principles. Leadership practices became an expression of those beliefs. These practices, engaged in by district administration, predecessor principals and successor principles, served to sustain equitable improvement efforts over a transition in leadership. These practices included district-wide alignment of a continuous improvement process, alignment of decision-making with core beliefs and philosophy, and seeking principals during leadership transitions capable of sustaining current improvement efforts. This study contributes new perspective to the field by joining the research related to sustainable leadership and leadership succession with social justice leadership.
Download or read book Principal Succession written by Ann Weaver Hart and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines major issues in theory and research related to leader succession. It looks at the persistent problems confronted by people assigned to lead established social and professional groups like those found in schools. The author demonstrates how interaction between new leaders and established school organizations shape succession events (with illustrations drawn from educational administration) and provides a framework for understanding succession as a dynamic and interactive process.
Download or read book Leadership Succession written by Thomas Brent Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: See ProQuest for summary.
Download or read book Principals in Succession written by Robert E. White and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-06-11 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributors to this volume examine structures and processes that school boards have in place directly relating to the process of principal or vice-principal succession. As well, they consider the effect that these structures and processes have upon staff and administrators themselves. These contributors investigate policies, procedures and practices that school boards employ in terms of leadership succession, and explore implications of these constructs for the sustainability of school improvement. This volume presents an overview of the process of principal or vice-principal succession, descriptions of school district practices surrounding this process and discussions regarding how succession procedures affect individuals and groups of individuals. This volume also highlights those board policies that incorporate practices used to develop models that support and allow administrators to succeed. It articulates how school leaders and staff members deal with change and improvement efforts in successive schools, as well as how board policies and practices support principals and vice-principals at any stage in the succession process. This volume is useful as a reference guide relating to transfer and rotation procedures in school systems across the nation.
Download or read book Examining the Phenomenon of Elementary School Principal Succession Through the Perspectives and Experiences of Novice Principals written by Dayna Kay Lewis and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: School districts across the United States are confronted with a shortage of highly qualified principal applicants, a situation compounded by a haphazard approach to leadership succession planning. While the vast majority of principals and superintendents endorse the promotion of assistant principals as the most effective way to develop successful school leaders, few structures exist to support that endeavor. Despite their essential role in the school's operations and escalating demands for accountability for high standards and performance at the school level, assistant principals have been rendered virtually invisible in the scholarly literature. This study sought to fill the glaring gap in knowledge of the socialization experiences of assistant principals. Through a qualitative, in-depth phenomenological interview study of eight novice elementary school principals, this study focused on how the leadership practices of principals are influenced and informed by their prior experiences as assistant principals, as well as identified and defined the assistant principal's roles and responsibilities. Themes that surfaced from the data analysis process were narrowed to relationships, leadership development, and job responsibilities for assistant principals and principals. The findings indicated that assistant principal roles and responsibilities are more managerial than instructional, districts are providing less professional development opportunities for assistant principals than they are principals, and preparedness for the role of principal is largely dependent on the leadership opportunities provided by the principals mentoring the assistant principals. It is recommended that school districts take a strategic approach to succession planning that includes opportunities for assistant principals to experience multiple leadership styles as well as distributing instructional leadership responsibilities as training for the principalship. School districts also need to assure that principals are equipped to develop assistant principals' leadership capabilities through techniques such as mentoring, coaching, training, and providing them with opportunities to exercise leadership.
Download or read book Leadership Succession written by Stewart D. Friedman and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1987 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on the most critical strategic activity in any organization, namely, who gets chosen to sit in the top echelon of the pyramid. Friedman argues that it is the quality of corporate leadership that will determine corporate winners and losers in the global competitive game. The stakes in leadership succession are high. The selection of key figures is the one human resource activity that no one belittles for being of secondary importance. Indeed, leadership succession is so important and central in many executive minds that it crowds out any other work. The succession process is often fraught with political intrigue, it lacks discipline, and excludes meaningful involvement of senior human resource executives. The contributors to this imaginative volume reveal a succession planning process that is frequently sloppy, superficial, and regularly sabotaged by senior management when they give it short shrift in terms of quality time. In addition, senior management often overrides sound decisions when it comes to filling key positions. The result is a lack of integrity throughout the human resource systems that eventually leads to a collapse of belief in the system and its governance. Noel M. Tichy, a leading figure in the studies of human resource management, has said, "Stewart Friedman is to be congratulated for a successful effort in providing a state of the art look at leadership succession. [He] provides us with an empirical database of what is happening in U.S. corporations, helpful prescriptions for future improvement of leadership succession, and a realistic assessment of the human resource executive challenges in this area."
Download or read book Principals Perceptions of the Essential Components of Sustainable Leadership and Implications for Succession Planning at the Elementary School Level written by Rosalind Ann Hardie and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Moving on Up written by Terrell Don King and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In school districts with an excessive rate of principal turnover annually, with the highest turnover rates occur in high-needs schools. Leaders of school districts experiencing high principal turnover rates recognized that on-site professional development of future school principals requires succession planning programs administered internally by the school district. The need for improved principal leadership readiness and assignments to fill potential position vacancies led to the purpose of this multiple case study. The three research questions were the following: 1. How do successful principals assigned to high-needs elementary schools and who completed a district’s principal succession planning program perceive their leadership preparation and readiness experiences? 2. How do the school district’s leaders describe the impact of a succession planning program for future principals serving high-needs elementary schools? 3. How do the school district’s leaders describe the sustainability of a succession planning program for future principals serving high-needs elementary schools? The multi-case study design involved two districts with principal succession planning programs. Fourteen participants were interviewed for this study. The participants were two superintendents, nine central office leaders, and three successful elementary principals in high-needs schools. The researcher also secured, reviewed, and analyzed available documents and artifacts related to program design and implementation. Consistent with qualitative research methods, data were coded, and themes related to the research questions were identified and described in alignment with the research questions guiding the study. The 10 themes that answered the three research questions follow: (a) perceived readiness for the principalship, (b) personal growth and development, (c) perceived readiness for the principal hiring process, (d) perceived network of support, (e) formalizing the growth of aspiring principals, (f) addressing district needs, (g) providing support for novice principals, (h) program design, (i) having a program director, and (j) program evaluation. The findings from this study could be used to inform practice based on the themes supporting the sustainability of the two succession planning programs. The findings offer a model for developing, selecting, and retaining high-quality principals in high-needs elementary schools
Download or read book Principals Perceptions of the Essential Components of Sustainable Leadership and Implications for Succession Planning at the Elementary School Level written by Rosalind Hardie and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Developing Leaders written by Joanne M. Butler and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Leadership Succession Management in Public Education a Human Resource Director s Perspective written by Daniel T. Arlitt and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book From the Classroom to the Office written by Matthew J. Jennings and published by R&L Education. This book was released on 2009-11-16 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first year of a new leader's tenure is a critical time period. If an administrator begins their position by taking certain actions while avoiding others, he or she will get off to a positive start. This positive start leads to momentum and an increased probability of success. In this book, an experienced school administrator provides practical, research-based, guidance for how to succeed during this critical first year as a new school administrator. It also includes research and practical application strategies for addressing the most important tasks to be accomplished during their first year in a new administrative position.
Download or read book An Investigation of Changes in Group Interaction Related to Leader Succession in Selected Urban Elementary Schools written by Charles Wayne Bland and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Leadership Succession in Schools an Approach to Developing a Leadership Philosophy in Teachers written by Cheryl Bell and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Succession to School Leadership written by Brenda Anne Russell Berry and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1998 and 2000, seventy principals were named in the Austin Independent School District to succeed other principals. Several schools had two or more principals in that period. Not only is there an immediate cost when a principal is not successful, but there is also a cost associated with repair or replacement. Knowing what is necessary in the induction experience to make a principal succeed is critical. We have an obligation to these principals, their teachers, the taxpayers, and most of all, the students, to maximize their success. This study explored the experiences of elementary principals in the Austin Independent School District who recently succeeded other principals. Issues addressed included the principals' perceptions of their experiences and the impact of those experiences on their effectiveness. Findings will be offered as recommendations that may better inform principals who step into the succession role in the district. Questionnaires were sent to elementary principals named between 1998 and 1999 and still in those same schools in 2001-2002. Based on responses, principals were invited to participate in focus groups. Based on written responses and participation in focus groups, three principals were selected as case studies. Data revealed that succession principals had positive experiences including communication with others, establishment of procedures and routines, relationship building, and knowledge of district policies and procedures. Negative experiences included the effects of prior school leadership, challenging relationships, communication issues, and lack of support. As a result of these experiences, principals developed inner strength and powerful relationships with peers. It was recommended that support for succession principals continue beyond the induction year and include: trained mentors; time to dialogue with mentors and peer principals; quick responses to questions or requests for support; and receipt, early in the process, of critical information regarding role definition, expectations, district policies, and district procedures. Recommendations for further study included: investigating the succession experiences of secondary principals; comparing the succession experiences of principals named from within the district to those named from outside the district; and studying the relationship between the rate of principal retention and teacher retention.
Download or read book By Their Bootstraps written by Ohio Education Association. Department of Elementary School Principals and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
