...‐setting involves developing a change agenda and a plan for achieving it. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Principal preparation Ontario Policy Canada Principals What makes a school principal successful? Implementing provincial mandates faithfully? Raising students’ test scores...

... principals (n=177), who responded to the authors' invitation to complete a survey, as part of a larger study, in the ten provinces and three territories of Canada. The data analyses included theme and cross‐theme analyses. Findings This study has pointed to the perception that trust‐related...

... in educational administration programmes. The author also considers whether school leadership preparation programmes in Canada and elsewhere provide theoretical knowledge to support this. Finally, the author posits three theoretical perspectives on emotion in administrative work and organisational settings...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Ethics Decision making Leadership Training Action research Canada University programs and curricula in educational administration and leadership are increasingly influenced by ethics. In organizations ethics tend to be institutionalized by way...

...‐Catholic students in Catholic schools has become a phenomenon of concern for Catholic educators in the UK (Francis, 1986), the USA, Canada (Canadian Catholic School Trustees' Association, 2005), and Australia (Catholic News, 2005 ; Harkness, 2003). Questions concerning the sustainability...

... Educational policy Canada There is little debate that the condition of school facilities in the USA and Canada are deficient. In the USA, the 1995 General Accounting Office report documented the extensiveness of deferred maintenance deficits and, since then, spending on maintenance and operations has...

... Group Publishing Limited 2007 Race Racial discrimination White people Leadership Social justice Canada Education is often assumed to be a moral activity (Stefkovich and Shapiro, 1999 ; Starratt, 1994). However, its moral nature is neither accidental nor neutral. As Schwandt (2000...

... by the author herself) while continuously relating that study to grounded and established educational and ethic‐related theory. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Lindy Zaretsky can be contacted at: lzaretsky@scdsb.on.ca Social responsibility Education Team working Ethics Canada I...

... its focus on the topic to the organization and the individual. Leadership Succession planning Principals Schools Education Canada This article will address issues of leadership succession in education and, more precisely, examine the influence of principals' succession...

... et al., 1999a ; Geijsel et al., 2001 ; Geijsel et al., 2003 ; van den Berg and Sleegers, 1996). © MCB UP Limited 2003 Transformational leadership Commitment Teachers Motivation Canada The Netherlands In a recent comparison with such “classic...

... dimensions. Finally, a set of questions is offered for readers interested in planning leadership development networks. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Leadership Development Technology Canada Networks The implications of the structural challenges of technology‐mediated leadership networks...

... challenge to consider the linkages between new technologies and educative leadership, and then contribute to the debate. For instance, Flanagan and Jacobsen draw on a five‐part leadership model currently in use in a large urban school district in western Canada to describe challenges that need...

... and supports teachers and administrators working together to identify and to ponder creatively the dilemmas of practice. © MCB UP Limited 1997 Beliefs Canada Evaluation Language Professionals Schools Many schools view the path towards school improvement to be through the professional...

...Donald G. Allison Reports the responses of 643 public school principals in Canada to a survey on coping with administrative stress. A factor analysis of responses to the 26 item coping preference scale prepared for this study identified seven coping factors. Lists the ten most popular coping...

... educational managers from two school districts of the province of Québec, Canada. A first PAL group, from a suburban school district (n = 16), followed the programme in 1993‐1994. A second group (n = 25), from a rural school district of the northern part of Québec, participated in PAL...

..., age, location, and sector of their institutions. Environmental concerns include government grants, inflation, enrolment issues and declining resources. Reports slight differences. Implies that all Alberta, Canada, institutions of higher education, irrespective of their size, age, location and sector...

... to a closer fit between compensation strategies,organizational strategies, and workforce behaviours is required to increase the positive effects of reward structures. © MCB UP Limited 1993 Canada Career development Education Effectiveness Performance‐related pay Schools Strategic management...

.... © MCB UP Limited 1992 Canada Education Immigrants Teachers Inner City Teachers' Work and the Assessment, Placement and Ongoing Education of Immigrant Children Charlotte Reid Winnipeg Education Centre, Winnipeg, Canada, and Jon Young University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada City...

... 1990 Administration Canada Education Research The Nature, Causes and Consequences of Principals' Practices: An Agenda for Future Research Kenneth A. Leithwood, Paul T. Begley and J. Bradley Cousins The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Toronto, Canada Results of research...