... development School–university partnerships Shared and supportive leadership Organizational change Today's schools face an increasing demand for large-scale continuous improvement (Farrell and Coburn, 2017). This is an especially difficult challenge in under-resourced rural schools due to geographic...

... role in driving knowledge transfer and development and as such are an important social capital asset supporting organizational change. Building on the growing scholarship around a social network approach to understanding educational leadership and systems change, the study draws from network concepts...

... heart of our practical and theoretical questions about how schools are organized, what they do well and why most look more-or-less the same as they did 100 years ago. Organizational adaptation and planned organizational change. How schools responded to externally induced change...

... and be addressed that led to individual and organizational change. Research limitations/implications The case highlights the importance of both CRSL and PSL principals, along with the idea of “soft power” in cultural change, to foster equity in schools. Established trust does not erase the difficulties...

... posited leaders who function predominantly in a single frame may miss essential organizational change elements. Research limitations/implications The authors recognize several limitations in this study. First, the nominating process for the NASSP Digital Principals award involves an application...

... Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Technology Educational leadership Organizational change Across the United States, school districts use 1:1 technology programs to foster equity, innovative learning and student engagement in hopes of changing whole school systems...

... into: outcomes for classroom instruction, organizational change, and the relationship between student voice and power. The paper ends with a discussion of the importance of attending to issues of power in youth–adult relationships, including ways to avoid the co-optation of young people. Originality/value...

... be contacted at: joseph.f.murphy@vanderbilt.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Leadership Organizational change Over the last quarter century a good deal of attention has been given to the topic of professional learning communities. During that time, some parts of the community...

... are charged with preparing, selecting, and supporting new principals and their schools. Principals Leaders Organizational change Succession planning Principal succession Leadership practice Novice principals RQ2. What is the specific nature of these challenges? RQ3...

...-term, six-year timeframe. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Organizational change Accountability Multivariate analysis School leadership School administration Principal preparation School proficiency Principal experience Assistant principal Teacher qualifications Growth...

..., are sustainable, and self‐organizing within the school. Allan Walker can be contacted at: adwalker@ied.edu.hk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Self‐organizing schools Capacity building Hong Kong Leadership Schools Organizational change We define capacity building as a set...

... 2011 Leadership Learning Schools Principals Organizational change Change management Of the seven major task areas for which principals have responsibility, curriculum and instruction has generated the most sound and fury. On the one hand, the principal has been exhorted to exert...

... there needs to be a deliberate and comprehensive organisational values clarification and alignment process. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Organizational change Organizational culture Value analysis Strategic alignment Every type of modern organisation has little choice...

... Leadership Organizational development Organizational change Professional education Distributed leadership is unlikely to happen if schools stay as they are. Schools are unlikely to transform themselves without distribution of leadership roles (Jackson and Temperley, 2007). The leadership...

... Group Publishing Limited 2004 Systems theory Chaos theory Leadership Organizational change In the early 1980s, advances in computing and the subsequent development of new ways of observing and interpreting various interrelated phenomena in the physical sciences enabled mathematicians...

... and practices and school leader's capacity to apply aspects of wisdom theory to each problem resolving opportunity. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Schools Organizational change Memory Learning If an organization is to learn anything, then the distribution of its memory, the accuracy of that memory...

... systems: organization theory’s neglected mandate ”, Administrative Science Quarterly , Vol. 41 , pp. 146 ‐ 62 . Weick , K.E. (1976), “ Educational organizations as loosely coupled systems ”, Administrative Science Quarterly , Vol. 21 , pp. 1 ‐ 19 . Education Organizational change...

.... © MCB UP Limited 2002 Management Organizational change Education In the introduction to this special issue of the Journal of Educational Administration, Meyer (2002a) reflects back on 25 years of writing about educational organizations as “loosely coupled” systems and asks...

... information and improved performance”. Performance reporting is reshaping educational politics and creating new intra‐organizational dynamics between federal, state, and local policymakers – producing greater impetus for organizational change. For example, during its reauthorization by Congress, amendments...

... attention to contextual considerations, and there is virtually no empirical evidence to support Bass’ claim as applied to school organizations. Leadership Teachers Organizational change Commitment In a recent study of Chinese and American managers, Fu and Yukl (2000) found substantial...