Journal of Educational Administration: Volume 55 Issue 6

Urban high school principals’ promotion of college-and-career readiness

Joel R. Malin, Donald Hackmann

The purpose of this paper is to ascertain how two urban principals, in high schools that feature comprehensive college-and-career readiness practices, utilize distributed…

Teacher-principal race and teacher satisfaction over time, region

Samantha L. Viano, Seth B. Hunter

The purpose of this paper is to replicate prior findings on teacher-principal race congruence and teacher job satisfaction and extend the literature by investigating trends over…

The implications of the school’s cultural attributes in the relationships between participative leadership and teacher job satisfaction and burnout

Pascale Benoliel, Anat Barth

As a result of continuous reforms, increased emphasis has been placed on participative leadership as a means to improving school and teacher outcomes. However, along with the…

Generating change from below: what role for leadership from above?

Fiona King, Howard Stevenson

In recent years the benefits of distributed leadership have often assumed the status of an unchallengeable orthodoxy. There is a general acceptance that leadership is best when it…

An integrative model for understanding team organizational citizenship behavior: Its antecedents and consequences for educational teams

Anit Somech, Soha Khotaba

The purpose of this paper is to use a model to broaden the understanding of the organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) phenomenon in educational teams and examines team OCB’s…

“School banding”: Principals’ perspectives of teacher professional development in the school-based management context

Daphnee Hui Lin Lee, Chi Shing Chiu

The purpose of this paper is to explore how principals’ leadership approaches to teacher professional development arise from school banding and may impact upon teacher…

Primary determinants of a large-scale curriculum reform: National board administrators’ perspectives

Lotta Tikkanen, Kirsi Pyhältö, Tiina Soini, Janne Pietarinen

The purpose of this paper is to gain a better understanding of how national board administrators, more precisely, officials at the Finnish National Board of Education (FNBE) have…

Addressing the achievement gap: Exploring principal leadership and teacher professional learning in urban and rural primary schools in Thailand

Patnaree Piyaman, Philip Hallinger, Pongsin Viseshsiri

Developing countries in many parts of the world have experienced a disturbing trend in the differential pace of economic development among urban and rural communities. These…