Download or read book Principal Perceptions Toward the Leadership Responsibilities and Practices of the Superintendency in High and Low Achievement School Districts with High and Low Superintendent Turnover written by Danielle M. Colby-Rooney and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Effective Principals Perceptions of Superintendents Instructional Leadership Beliefs Knowledge and Practices written by Rona Samone Simmons and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study uses a qualitative methodology to examine effective principal’s perceptions of the instructional leadership beliefs, knowledge, and practices of superintendents and how they impact student achievement and influence principal’s instructional leadership. The study was set in a large, urban school district. Six principals who met the selection criteria as highly effective were chosen as study participants. As the instructional leaders of their schools and subordinates to the superintendent, principals are uniquely positioned to provide valuable insight on their perceptions of superintendents as instructional leaders. The study answered the following research questions: How do effective principals in large, urban school districts in Texas, (1) describe instructional leadership beliefs, knowledge, and practices of superintendents? (2) perceive the impact of their superintendent’s instructional leadership beliefs, knowledge, and practices on student achievement? (3) describe how superintendent’s beliefs, knowledge, and practices as an instructional leader influence their own beliefs, knowledge, and practices as it relates to instructional leadership? (4) make sense of the instructional leadership beliefs, knowledge, and practices of their superintendent? Findings from this study may be used to provide greater clarity to superintendents and school boards members, regarding the role of the superintendent as an instructional leader and the specific beliefs, knowledge, and practices positively impacting student achievement and influencing principal’s instructional leadership.

Download or read book Superintendent and Principal Perceptions of Superintendent Instructional Leadership Practices in Improving School Districts written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study was to investigate the instructional leadership practices of a statewide sample of Arizona school superintendents. Superintendents' practices in 12 areas were analyzed in relation to the degree of district academic improvement over a three-year period, the relative size of the district, and the gender of the superintendent. Differences in principal-superintendent perceptions were also analyzed to determine the extent of these differences, and their correspondence to the level of academic improvement achieved by districts. Among superintendents that had served in the current district for at least three years, there were significant differences in their reported involvement in 2 of 12 areas. Superintendents in higher-performing districts reported being more involved in planning for instruction and developing principals as instructional leaders. While male and female superintendents reported similar instructional leadership practices, female superintendents reported being more involved in reviewing research and developing instructional policies. Male superintendents reported being more involved in developing principals as instructional leaders. Superintendents in districts of different sizes responded similarly to the survey. The one exception was in the area of supervising instruction, in which superintendents in medium-sized districts reported being less involved. There were significant differences in the views of superintendents' instructional leadership held by principals and superintendents. On the whole, principals perceived superintendents as being less involved in instructional leadership than did superintendents themselves. There were significant differences between the responses of the subjects of this study and Watts' 1992 study. Superintendents in the present study reported being significantly more involved in seven instructional leadership tasks than their 1992 counterparts. The findings from this study may be of use to superintendents as they consider the many responsibilities they face in providing leadership for their districts. These findings may also be of interest to researchers who are concerned with better understanding the instructional leadership role of the school superintendent.

Download or read book Resources in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Leadership Teaming written by Cathie E. West and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2008-11-10 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A principal and a superintendent present experience- and research-based strategies for developing strong superintendent-principal teams through leadership, communication, and collaboration.

Download or read book Standards Based Leadership written by Sandra Harris and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Standards-Based Leadership is written specifically for superintendents and is framed within the most recent national standards: Professional Standards for Educational Leaders 2015. The cases provide an opportunity for superintendents, as well as those in training, to critically reflect on best-practices with real scenarios. Each chapter contains PSEL2015 standards, best practice literature, three cases, discussion questions, and additional resources. The chapters have been written by educators with leadership and superintendent experience.

Download or read book Perceptions of the Role of Principal Supervisors in Nassau County New York written by Judith A. LaRocca and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research reveals that school leadership is the second most important in-school factor impacting student achievement, with greater impacts seen when principals' leadership practice is focused on learning. Research also shows that leadership practices in the area of principal supervision and supporting principal leadership have a positive impact on student achievement. This qualitative phenomenological study utilized concepts from sociocultural learning theory to frame understandings of the lived experiences of principal supervisors in Nassau County, New York. The rationale for this study stems from a moral imperative to address gaps in learning and achievement in disadvantaged groups through effective educational leadership practice. The purposefully selected sample included ten superintendents who were identified from the 56 public school districts in Nassau County, New York. Interview transcripts from superintendents responsible for supervising elementary principals practicing in K-6 and K-5 schools were coded to identify significant statements, resulting in over 425 individual coding references. The analysis and interpretation of the findings were organized into four analytic categories found within the conceptual framework: (a) leadership support, (b) role of principal supervisor, (c) student achievement outcomes, and (d) principal leadership. Findings show that principal supervisors' practice includes robust support for principals' professional learning and an emphasis on fostering responsive relationships with principals. Superintendents often support principals by including other central office administrators in supervision. Participants understand the importance of principal leadership and its impact on student achievement outcomes, especially principals' practice that emphasizes a focus on teaching and learning. The lens of sociocultural learning theory informs the extent to which these practices are performed. Along with these findings, this research identified that a specific role for supervising principals is not clearly defined and practitioners do not use a standard or framework that defines leadership practice focused on learning in their principal supervision work. Recommendations from this study have valuable implications for central office leaders who want to support principals' leadership through research-based principal supervision practice that can ultimately impact student achievement outcomes and reduce persistent achievement gaps for students in Nassau County public schools.

Download or read book School Superintendents Perceptions of the American Association of School Administrators Professional Standards for the Superintendency Their Relevancy to the Superintendency and Correlation to Pre service Preparation of Superintendents written by Dawn A. Santiago-Marullo and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Effective leadership is important at all levels of a school system. This study will focus on the school district superintendent. While the impact of this leadership position on student achievement has been cited in several studies, research on the preparation of individuals for the superintendency is minimal. The media reports shortages in the field by citing the lower number of applicants for these positions. However, the existing research is inconclusive. While the number of applications for a given position may be lower than in the past, school districts are still reporting satisfaction with the search process and the candidates they select. Various standards projects for K-12 educational leadership exist. Many of these were prompted by the perceived need to attract more candidates to the field at every level of educational administration. The researcher selected the American Association of School Administrators' (AASA) Professional Standards for the Superintendency as a proxy for the knowledge and skills needed to be effective in the superintendency. These standards were created to improve educational leadership effectiveness at the superintendent level. They provide a framework for the development of improved leadership preparation programs and assist in individual leadership performance evaluation. For the purposes of this study, the AASA Standards have been correlated to the Four Frames leadership model developed by Lee Bolman and Terrence Deal. This correlation serves as the conceptual framework for this research project. This study examined the perceptions of current New York State school superintendents regarding the applicability of the AASA leadership standards by comparing two groups. The superintendents in the treatment group of this study participated in the SUNY Oswego Superintendent Development Program (SDP) prior to acquiring their first superintendency. The comparison group was comprised of current superintendents who did not participate in this specific pre-service preparation program prior to becoming a school superintendent. The majority of school superintendents responding to the survey indicated that the AASA leadership standards are consistent with the daily work of superintendents. The average percent of respondents selecting the responses extremely or very important was 77% for the 33 indicators surveyed. In addition, superintendents responding to the survey believed they were prepared for the superintendency in their first year. The average percent of responses for the answers extremely or very prepared was 44% for the 33 indicators. When we add the answer prepared, the average increases from 44 to 76%. Only 6% selected not prepared for the 33 indicators surveyed. When survey respondent data was disaggregated, differences among perceptions of preparation were found for some groups. The SDP and earning a doctorate appear to be promising pathways for preparing school superintendents. On average, respondents to the AASA Standards Survey who participated in the SDP and/or earned a doctorate indicated that they were better prepared to perform the tasks described by the indicators than other respondents. Differences in perception of preparedness were the greatest for SDP and non-SDP women. Regardless of their preparation pathway, the results of the survey identified two areas were superintendent preparation might be improved. The indicators to "develop a process for maintaining accurate fiscal reporting" was ranked 30 out of 33 and to "describe procedures for superintendent-school board interpersonal/working relationships" was ranked 32 out of 33 by all respondents. These two indicators were among the five indicators ranked last by mean score by all subgroups of respondents as well. Interestingly, these results confirm the findings of previous studies on the superintendency. The most successful school districts have leadership structures where the superintendent and school board work towards the same goals, keeping students' interests first in their decision-making. These school districts also manage their resources well. Waters and Marzano (2006) found that "board alignment and support of district goals" and "use of resources to support academic achievement and instruction goals" were among the top five areas where superintendents should focus their efforts in order to impact student achievement positively. Given the importance of these skills, organizations preparing future superintendents should review their programs in these two areas: superintendent-school board relations and resource management"--Leaves ix-xi.

Download or read book American Doctoral Dissertations written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Superintendents and Principals Perceptions of Leadership Domains for Evaluating Principals Performance written by Clifford Byron Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ABSTRACT: For an evaluation system to be effective, both the evaluator and the evaluatee must agree on the theoretical importance and practical relevance of the criteria and have confidence in the evaluator to apply these criteria. This study describes differences and correlations between the perceptions of superintendents and principals with respect to the theoretical importance, practical relevance, and confidence they both have in a superintendent's ability to evaluate principals in the four domains of leadership included in North Carolina's new principals' evaluation system: instructional, organizational, moral/ethical, and managerial leadership. The study surveyed superintendents and their principals in school districts in North Carolina that had enrollments between 5,000 and 25,000 students in 1998-99. The total respondent group included 47 superintendents and 518 principals. Descriptive statistics, hierarchical linear modeling, t-tests, and correlations were used to analyze the superintendents' and principals' perceptions. Seven major conclusions were derived from the study's extensive findings. Most important of these, both superintendents and principals consider the four leadership domains to be more theoretically important to being an effective principal than practically relevant to the daily tasks of a principal, and the confidence ratings of both groups are not as high as their importance and relevance ratings. Furthermore, the confidence ratings of principals are significantly lower than those of superintendents. With a few specific exceptions, these perceptions do not vary with demographic or experience variables.

Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Superintendents and Principals Perception of Principal Evaluation Systems written by Maria Edelberg and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this qualitative research study was to examine superintendents' and principals' perceptions of how principal evaluation systems influenced a principal's leadership in promoting high levels of student achievement. Survey results, principal interviews, superintendent interviews, and principal evaluations tools were used to gather the information and data. Results from the study revealed there were no patterns of agreement among the four school districts studied on what was evaluated in the district's principal evaluation systems. Moreover, there were opposing views within districts among principals and between principals and superintendents on what was actually evaluated in their district's principal appraisal system. When a review of the districts' principal appraisal systems was conducted for linkages to ISLLC and the Pennsylvania Inspired Leadership Standards, data demonstrated only one district had explicit references to both of the Standards. The other districts varied from some direct linkages to the Standards to no mention of any of the Standards. Additionally, the study confirmed that there were some similarities among components of the principals evaluation systems among the four school districts studied. Lastly, the studied revealed none of the four school districts which participated in this study used meeting Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) as a measure when evaluating principals.

Download or read book Principal Leadership and School Effectiveness written by Robert Herrera and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Principal leadership and its effect on student achievement have been well documented over the past two decades. However, the link between the principals' level of engagement in leadership practices and whether their schools met the accountability measure remains unexplored. The purpose of this study was to examine four research questions regarding (a) the extent of principals' engagement in seven leadership practices that are identified as enhancing student achievement in the literature, and (b) whether the level of engagement is associated with schools' success in meeting the accountability measure. The study used data collected by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) and were taken from the 1999-2000 School and Staffing Survey (SASS). Data were collected from 4,842 districts and included 9,893 principals and 56,354 teachers. Among others, the survey collected data on teachers' and principals' perspectives on principals' engagement in various leadership practices and whether the schools met the accountability measure. The findings indicated principals' perceived that they had a high level of engagement in leadership practices associated with order, discipline, resources, and input; and low level of engagement in culture, focus, and intellectual stimulation; and teachers perceived ther principals had a high level of engagement in intellectual stimulation and input, and low level of engagement in culture, order, discipline, resources, and focus. The logistic regression analyses suggested that the principals' fulfillment of the leadership responsibilities, both from the principals' perspectives, can be used to predict the likelihood whether the school would meet the accountabiilty measure. From the principals' perspective, resources, focus, and culture are statistically significant predictors for school success; form teachers' perspective, resources and culture are statistically significant predictors for school success. Implications of the findings were discussed."--Résumé de l'auteur.

Download or read book Superintendent Leadership Practices that Cultivate Principal Capacity to Raise Achievement Across School Districts written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: District educational leaders throughout the nation are answering the call to action to provide both equitable and excellent schools for all learners, particularly for students who have been traditionally marginalized. Yet ironically, we know little about how district leaders are responding to this call as the voices of superintendents are scarcely heard in the literature. This study is intended to deepen understanding of the superintendent's role in providing district-level leadership that builds the capacity of school principals to lead equitable and excellent schools where deliberate steps have been taken to close the achievement gap. More specifically, this study addressed the following question: In a high achieving school district, what leadership practices of the superintendent cultivate building principal capacity --- both individually and collectively --- to significantly contribute to raising the achievement level of typically marginalized students across the school district? Further, this study explored the superintendent's role in creating an integrated, high achieving district that is responsive to the needs of traditionally marginalized students. A qualitative case study of a superintendent was conducted in one school district which has recently had a three-year period in which schools across the district closed the achievement gap. Qualitative methods including interviews, observations, and document reviews were used to collect the research data.

Download or read book Principals and Student Achievement written by Kathleen Cotton and published by ASCD. This book was released on 2003-10-15 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the direct and indirect influences of principals on student achievement? How do successful principals motivate others? What kinds of relationships do they have with parents, students, and staff? Principals and Student Achievement identifies 26 essential traits and behaviors of effective principals to show how they achieve success as instructional leaders. Based on a review of 81 key research articles from the last 20 years, this concise book examines how certain practices can affect student achievement, including: * Communication and interaction * Classroom observation and feedback to teachers * Recognition of student and staff achievement * Dedication to a safe and orderly school environment * Support of professional development of staff * Role modeling The book also reviews differences in instructional leadership between elementary and secondary principals, male and female principals, principals in high- and low-socioeconomic-status schools, and more. We all know that principals are important to student success, but few people have pinpointed exactly how they make a positive difference. At a time when principals are being asked to do more for school reform and accountability, Principals and Student Achievement provides a valuable resource for identifying what it takes to be an effective principal and, in turn, an effective school. Note: This product listing is for the Adobe Acrobat (PDF) version of the book.

Download or read book Superintendents Use of Research based Responsibilities written by Wayne Russell Stitt and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this research study was to identify "how" effective superintendents use the research-based leadership responsibilities/practices outlined in Marzano and Waters' (2006) meta-analysis that significantly and positively impact student achievement. A second purpose of theis research was to find challenges that superintendents face in their attempts to be successful within their school districts. The study employed a qualitative multi-site case study using elite purposeful sampling. Five superintendents in southwest Michigan were targeted and agreed to participate in this study. They were the only superintendents in this region who met the criteria, which included school districts who have a total student population from 2,500 to 3,700 students and who have demostrated excellence in leading their respective school districts towards high achievement on the Ed Yes Report Card for at least five years. For this study the researcher utilized multiple sources of evidence to analyze information gleaned from semi-structured interviews, a review of support documentation, and observation notes from meetings. This triangulation of data was used to do a within-case and cross-case analysis to analyze and interpret the data to find common themes that are shared among those superintendents in the study. The themes identified were found to correspond to the research-based superintendent responsibilities. While most of the best practices identified in Marzano and Waters' meta-analysis were found to be themes in this study, it is apparent that each superintendent carried out those practices in different ways. In particular, the findings showed that of the 51 research-based practices found to aid superintendents in leading their district to high student achievement, 41 of them were found to be themes in this study, with an additional 3 themes emerging. Additional findings were found in three prominent challenges. These challenges were money, time, and buy-in from stakeholders. Superintendents voiced their concerns over these specific problems in their attempts to carry out all of specific research-based responsibilities/practices. The study identifies ways the superintendents addressed these obstacles. It was found in this study that the superintendents implemented all of the research-based best practices to combat these obstacles.

Download or read book Superintendents Perceptions of Principals written by Angelina M. Estes and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this age of accountability, student achievement is the highest priority where schools and school districts are rated accordingly. Since school principals affect student achievement and accountability ratings, it was necessary to investigate what knowledge, skills, and dispositions principals need to have in order to lead their schools to success. The purpose of this study was to qualitatively examine superintendents' perceptions of what knowledge, skills, and dispositions are needed for a principal to lead a school to meet state accountability standards as well as what factors impact superintendents' hiring decisions when hiring principals. The research answered the following questions: What knowledge, skills, and dispositions do superintendents perceive are needed in a principal in order to meet state accountability standards? What factors impact superintendents' decisions when hiring principals to lead schools to meet state accountability standards? How do superintendents' perceptions differ based on their school districts' ratings? Twenty-one Texas superintendents from academically unacceptable and exemplary rated schools were interviewed. A grounded theory was developed that explains how superintendents were experiencing a shared situation such as TEA ratings. Superintendents from academically unacceptable and exemplary districts identified similar characteristics needed in principals to lead successful schools. However, due to the challenging populations in academically unacceptable districts, principals have to tend to students' needs beyond education. Superintendents in this study identified interpersonal skills as the key characteristic principals needed. When hiring a school principal, superintendents said they were most interested in the experience of principal candidates rather than how they earned their certification. The most important skill superintendents discussed was interpersonal skills. The superintendents recommended that principal preparation programs offer more real-life and on-the-job experiences for participants. This study adds knowledge to the field of educational leadership by qualitatively examining the connection between superintendents' perceptions of knowledge, skills, and dispositions needed in principals and what characteristics principal preparation programs need to develop.