Journal of Educational Administration: Volume 54 Issue 6

Creating a school context of success: The role of enabling school structure & academic optimism in an urban elementary & middle school setting

Roxanne M. Mitchell, Brenda J. Mendiola, Randall Schumacker, Xaviera Lowery

The purpose of this paper is to use SEM to explore the effects of enabling school structure (ESS) and academic optimism (AO) on school achievement (SA).

Ethical leadership in education and its relation to ethical decision-making: The case of Arab school leaders in Israel

Khalid Arar, Ibrahim Haj, Ruth Abramovitz, Izhar Oplatka

The purpose of this paper is to investigate ethical leadership in the context of the Arab educational system in Israel. It questions the relations of ethical leadership dimensions…

Learning-centered leadership and teacher learning in China: does trust matter?

Shengnan Liu, Philip Hallinger, Daming Feng

In this era of global education reform, teacher professional learning (TPL) has emerged as a key factor in efforts to create sustainable school improvement. The same holds in…

Societal culture and the changing role of school principals in the post-Soviet era: The case of Kazakhstan

Natallia Yakavets

The purpose of this paper is to explore the impact of societal and cultural factors on the practices and perceptions of school principals in Kazakhstan.

Principal’s perceptions of effective professional development in schools

Crystal Brown, Matthew Militello

Principals play a pivotal role in teachers’ professional growth, which impacts student outcomes. The purpose of this paper is to understand the perceptions principals have about…

Measurement invariance of second-order factor model of the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) across K-12 principal gender

Lihua Xu, Zane Wubbena, Trae Stewart

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the factor structure and the measurement invariance of the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) across gender of K-12 school…