Journal of Educational Administration: Volume 52 Issue 4

Successful leadership in a rural, high-poverty school: the case of County Line Middle School

Hans W. Klar, Curtis A. Brewer

In this paper, the authors present a case study of successful school leadership at County Line Middle School. The purpose of the paper is to identify how particular leadership…

The language of leadership: principal rhetoric in everyday practice

Rebecca J. Lowenhaupt

The purpose of this paper is to call for a rhetorical turn in the study of school leadership and discusses how principals use language to enact school improvement. The key purpose…

An organizational engagement model as a management tool for high school principals

Liora Nutov, Orit Hazzan

– The purpose of this paper is to present an organizational engagement model that highlights the design process of the homeroom teacher (HRT) role in Israeli high schools.

Explaining Trinidad and Tobago's system response to international assessment data

Jerome De Lisle, Rhoda Mohammed, Rinnelle Lee-Piggott

Although high-quality comparative data from international assessments are now more widely available, to what extent is that data being used to trigger, inform, and direct…

The relationship between transformational leadership, perceived leader effectiveness and teachers’ job satisfaction

Maria Eliophotou Menon

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the link between transformational/transactional/passive-avoidant leadership behaviors, teachers’ perceptions of leader effectiveness…

School-level organizational routines for learning: supporting data use

Leanne M. Kallemeyn

The purpose of this paper is to use an extreme case to identify and describe the nature of routines that might support processes and outcomes of data use, drawing from a framework…

We Don't Need Another Hero: Struggle, Hope, and Possibility in the Age of High-Stakes Schooling

Michael L. Rowland

Financing Schools and Educational Programs: Policy, Politics and Practice

W. Blake Haselton