Journal of Educational Administration: Volume 54 Issue 5

Exploring the experiences of administrative interns: Implications for university preparation programs

Kimberly Jamison, Jennifer Clayton

The purpose of this paper is to identify how current administrative interns enrolled in a university administrator preparation program describe and make meaning of their…

The microfoundations of human resources management in US public schools

Ben Pogodzinski

The purpose of this paper is to identify the extent to which human resources (HR) decision making is influenced by the social context of school systems. More specifically, this…

New principals, accountability, and commitment in low-performing schools

Matthew Shirrell

The purpose of this paper is to examine first-year principals’ sense-making about two potentially conflicting demands as they take over low-performing urban schools: the demand to…

Improving teaching capacity to increase student achievement: The key role of data interpretation by school leaders

David Lynch, Richard Smith, Steven Provost, Jake Madden

This paper argues that in a well-organised school with strong leadership and vision coupled with a concerted effort to improve the teaching performance of each teacher, student…

The translation of leadership standards into leadership practices: A qualitative analysis of the adoption of the Ontario Leadership Framework in urban schools

Augusto Riveros, Carolyne Verret, Wei Wei

The guiding question of this study is: how is the Ontario Leadership Framework (OLF) translated into practices in elementary and secondary schools in the province of Ontario? The…

School leaders and transformational leadership theory: time to part ways?

Izhak Berkovich

After decades in which transformational leadership theory has prevailed as the dominant paradigm in leadership scholarship, critical voices have started raising serious concerns…