With the appropriate implementation, however, this model can lead to greater support for both parents and teachers.
The second suggested model involves parents and teacher in a closer partnership capacity. Groups of parents and teachers work as partners with the principal to further the processes that support excellence in education. The leadership team then receives a well-defined task to implement or complete. A school improvement plan is one example of such a task. When the specific task is completed, the specific team then integrates with others to further develop the task or implement its results.
The third suggested model involves treating all personnel at the school like employees at a company, where certain levels of leadership are implemented. Leadership functions are distributed among an assistant principal, department heads, and grade-level leaders. Each person receives specific leadership duties that integrate with those of other leaders to further the function and excellence of education. This model at...
Leadership Annotated Bib Culver, Mary K. (2009). Applying Servant Leadership in Today's Schools. Eye on Education: Larchmont, NY. This text focuses on how an educator or member of educational administration can use methodologies first utilized in business practices to become a more effective leader. The text is broken down into scenarios wherein an administrator and/or a teacher had a behavioral or some other issue inside the classroom. The thesis then becomes that
This single entity can also more consistently value the differences of both the students and teachers in a meaningful, useful way. "Good leaders seek to bring together sets of different realities to form a holistic identity for the organization" (Walker & Quong, 1998) it is through the acknowledging and valuing of differences that this leadership can empower teachers to commit fully to the task of self-appraisal, realizing that they
56th President of the United States which has represents an unprecedented race in the American Democratic Party between Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. The relationship of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton's leadership styles from the perspective of four distinct variables: gender, culture, trust and likelihood of voting. The author believes that the perception of fairness is the single most essential leadership trait which leaders should acquire in order
Educational Leadership & Student Assessment in Pennsylvania Student assessment has recently become a matter of great controversy in Pennsylvania, as many critics argue that it is not an accurate measure of students' attainment of the state's academic standards. For example, the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA) is designed to assess the quality of public schools and make the information known to parents, teachers, school districts, and the general public (Commonwealth of
HR Practices in Public Administration: Performance Improvement Through Distributed Leadership Managing personnel in a public administration context can be particularly challenging given the various economic, political and bureaucratic pressures which are often attendant to work in the public sector. These challenges are magnified when that public administration context is a school. Public schools are typically beset by a range of personnel obstacles that are unique to the field and which render the
Fleenor, Atwater, Sturm and McKee (2014) focuses on the need to develop "effective leaders and leadership behavior" that can positively impact organizations (p. 63). Their study provides a meta-analysis of the pertinent literature on the subject from the past quarter century, primarily published in The Leadership Quarterly, a journal of scholarly critique, theory, and research. The researchers note that theories of leadership are relatively new to academia, and that
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