.... Dr Ellen Goldring can be contacted at: ellen.goldring@vanderbilt.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Performance management Leadership Performance appraisal Educator accountability has placed principal evaluation and assessment at the forefront of reform debates. Across...

... opportunities for single and double-loop learning (Argyris and Schön, 1996) and might contribute to improvements in student learning. This case provides an example of how a school negotiated external performance management pressures, and maintained their professional autonomy, focussing on internally initiated...

..., 2009), all conditions that constrict knowledge creation and learning. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Instructional capacity Collective trust School improvement Trust Schools Performance management School improvement has become big business in the USA and across the world...

... for studying reform as an holistic social process that encompasses the design, adoption, implementation, and institutionalization of planned change. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Diffusion theory Leadership reform Change management Performance management United States of America...

... to money, records, etc). Bill Mulford can be contacted at: bill.mulford@utas.edu.au © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Poverty Schools Performance management Principals Australia Worldwide poverty is a major and growing social and economic issue (The Equalities Review...

... on raising standards through the modernisation of the teaching force – are the significant pieces of legislation in this period. However, arguably, whereas in 2000 the Government's emphasis was on performance management by 2003 this had changed to workforce remodelling. Remodelling is about giving...