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2016 Simons Patricia DissertatonTAKING A CLOSER LOOK: A CASE STUDY OF ONE PRINCIPAL WHO DEVELOPED TEACHER LEADERS WHO BECAME EDUCATIONAL LEADERS IN OTHER SETTINGS
(2016-05-13)
Abstract
The purpose of this investigation is to explore through a historical case study the ways in which one principal mentored and built capacity with a school-based cohort of teachers who became school leaders themselves ...
Trust, Transformational Leadership, and Collective Teacher Efficacy in an Urban School Setting
(2016-12-17)
The purpose of this study is to show how together trust along with transformational leadership moderates the effect of economic disadvantage on instructional capacity, defined by collective teacher efficacy, in urban ...
Principal Transformational Leadership Behaviors and Teacher Motivation
(2018-12)
While a vast amount of research exists on both teacher motivation and principal leadership styles, there is very little research that examines these topics together. Principals play a key role in the motivation of teachers, ...
Models of College Persistence Intentions
(2010)
While withdrawal from higher education may be the result of many reasons both within and beyond the control of the student or the institution, the intent of not returning to higher education indicates the acceptance of a ...
How Meteorologists Learn to Forecast the Weather: Social Dimensions of Complex Learning
(2011)
Weather and climate persistently affect individuals, corporations, and governments, sometimes in significant ways: a poor forecast leaves people unprepared to prevent damage or deal with disruptions to their daily routines, ...
The Educative Spirit-Home: A Thought Experiment to Educate Through Native American Women's Art
(2018-05-11)
Recognizing historical trauma experienced by indigenous peoples as contributing to social and educational problems for contemporary Native Americans (LaDuke 1999, 2002, 2005, Mihesuah 2003), specifically Native women ...
Exploratory Case Studies of the Role of the Community School Coordinator: Developing the School Social Network in Urban Elementary Schools
(2013)
This exploratory case study examines the role of the community school coordinator (CSC) in the community school model in two urban elementary schools. It seeks to understand how the role and responsibilities of a community ...
Using Capacity to Model School Effectiveness
(2014)
This study examines concepts and conditions that show promise for creating more accurate indicators of school performance than those currently in use and dominated by student outcome measures. Data were collected from ...
AN OUTCOME-BASED EVALUATION OF AN INNER-CITY COLLEGE PREPARATORY PUBLIC CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL
(2014-05-09)
Racial and ethnic minorities are expected to increase in both number and percentage of the college-going population (Department of Commerce, 2009). Meanwhile the historic underrepresentation of low-income, African-American, ...
Rural school postsecondary education Discourse: Individual anxiety-corporate confidence
(2014-12-12)
This study addressed a gap in the literature about the importance of the school context in predicting and mediating postsecondary education participation for rural students. Using grounded theory with a modified constant ...