... the theory of practice architectures as a lens through which to examine local site-based responses to system-wide reforms in two Australian Catholic secondary schools and their district offices. Data collection for these parallel case studies included semi-structured interviews, focus groups, teaching...

... talk routines in organizational learning. © Emerald Publishing Limited 2018 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Organizational learning Language Race Secondary schools Education researchers use a range of terms and concepts to describe the communication processes...

... © Emerald Publishing Limited 2018 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Change Organizational culture Leadership Beliefs Commitment Secondary schools This paper examines the emotional ecology underlying the improvement culture of a “beating the odds” US urban...

...Yi-Hwa Liou; Alan J. Daly Purpose Secondary school leadership provides multiple challenges in terms of the diversity of tasks, multiple demands on time, balancing communities and attending to instructional programming. An emerging scholarship suggests the importance of a distributed instructional...

... and qualitative approaches to study school improvement. It discusses the procedures and multiple data sources used in studying improvement using the example of a recent study of the role of leadership in promoting improvement in primary and secondary schools’ academic results in England. Although the definition...

... principals in elementary and secondary schools can enhance collaboration and create processes to infuse contextual understanding about cultural diversity, local community expectations and student needs while simultaneously responding to accountability pressures (Drysdale et al., 2009 ; Giles et...

...Karen Seashore Louis; Moosung Lee; Allan Walker; Yuk Ling Chui Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of different dimensions of instructional leadership on student learning in Hong Kong secondary schools, whose broader institutional contexts are critically characterized...

... Publishing Limited 2012 United States of America Secondary schools Urban areas Rural areas Students Educational administration Ethnic groups Minorities Urban education Accountability Risk analysis In 1983, “A Nation at Risk” made the case that the US school system was not competitive...

... for these theoretical notions. Patricia Brouwer can be contacted at: patricia.brouwer@ecbo.nl © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Communities Secondary schools Community of practice Team composition Team diversity Teachers The Netherlands Internationally, schools for secondary...

...Linda Bendikson; John Hattie; Viviane Robinson Purpose One of the features of the New Zealand secondary schools system is that achievement closely reflects the taught curriculum. The National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA) directly assesses student achievement on the secondary...

... of 351 secondary school head teachers, 702 elementary and secondary school teachers working in the government secondary schools of Punjab province. Data were collected using a mixed‐methods research design that included: review of related literature, documents indicating school achievements and student...

... Great Teachers Quit: And How We Might Stop the Exodus . Corwin , 2010 . 167 pp. , ISBN: 978‐1‐41297‐245‐1   $28.95 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 --> Education Teaching Teachers Education colleges Case studies Schools Secondary schools It is estimated that 50...

... of further barriers during the interview process. Equal opportunities Greece Secondary schools Educational personnel Leadership The promotion of fair practices in selection and assessment procedures has been a key area of concern for human resource experts and occupational psychologists...

... it works as a tool for the principals to create more effective schools. Design/methodology/approach A comparative cross‐sectional study was made on the adoption of MBO as perceived by principals in upper secondary schools in Sweden. Initially, a mail questionnaire was distributed to every principal...

... and self‐efficacy. Moreover, role in the organization moderates the association between collective and self‐efficacy. Teachers Team working Secondary schools Performance appraisal Self‐efficacy is the “beliefs in one's capabilities to organize and execute the courses of action required...

... subjects and teams responsible for cross‐school programmes in Years 7‐10. Sites were selected to be broadly representative. Some schools had more than one site, e.g. Mathematics and Student Welfare. A total of 50 sites across NSW from 38 secondary schools were studied. Findings With both subject...

...Carol Cardno; Tanya Fitzgerald Purpose During the 2000‐2004 period, one New Zealand tertiary institution provided a management development programme for experienced secondary school principals. Aims to determine the extent to which the learning had been sustained beyond the formal programme...

.... The research was undertaken in three secondary (11‐18), co‐educational, maintained schools in Wales, UK. There are 229 secondary schools, 1,631 primary schools for pupils under the age of 11 and 45 special schools for pupils with learning difficulties in the maintained sector in Wales. The 22 local education...