School Leadership Team Competence for Implementing Equity Systems Change: An Exploratory Study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jess R. Weiler ◽  
Brandi Hinnant-Crawford
Keyword(s):  
School Leadership ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Systems Change ◽  
Leadership Team

Creating a Culture of Empowerment and Accountability at St. Martin de Porres High School (B)

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Liz Livingston Howard ◽  
Gail Berger ◽  
Sachin Waikar
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
School Leadership ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Leadership Team ◽  
Nonprofit Leadership ◽  
Leadership Culture ◽  
Mba Students ◽  
Implementing Change ◽  
Critical Issues

Change is hard for all but perhaps more difficult for school leaders and other nonprofit organizations. The role that culture plays in a mission-driven organization can often be an impediment to change. This case uses a unique education institution, St. Martin dePorres School of the Cristo Rey Network, to illustrate the importance of culture in implementing change. It demonstrates how leaders can articulate a vision and create a strategy to change an organization and move toward success. The case focuses on the leadership team of Principal Mike Odiotti and Assistant Principal Judy Seiberlich and how they used cultural change as the key driver to school success. That success was defined by improved academic performance, greater accountability for students, teachers and staff and stronger empowerment of constituents. It includes an overview of how the school's leadership team used data to drive decision making. This case is ideal for MBA students, executives in nonprofit management or school leadership and can be used to illustrate change management, nonprofit leadership, culture change, mission-driven strategy or school leadership. It addresses critical issues that organizations face and provides tools and tactics that can be applied to mission-driven enterprises.Understand the role culture plays in creating change in an organization Gain an appreciation and comprehension for the relevance of shaping culture when implementing a vision Recognize norms guide people's behavior in organizations. Learn to identify the norms that promote positive cultures and those that create toxic environments Learn how to diagnose organizational culture using the “Iceberg Model” Build a repertoire of skills needed to successfully change and shape an organization's culture

scholarly journals The Role of School Leadership in the Implementation of Programming and Stem Concepts into Classroom Practice

2019 ◽  
pp. 39-44
Author(s):  
Serpil Tuti Sari
Keyword(s):  
School Leadership ◽  
Change Process ◽  
Classroom Practice ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Leadership Team ◽  
Early Years ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
Implementation Program ◽  
21St Century Learning Skills

This short practitioner report discussed the role of the school leadership in the implementation of programming, and STEM concepts into classroom practice in an educational institution in Izmir, Turkey. The study investigated the process of how the school's leadership team including the ICT coordinator made it possible to integrate these relatively new concepts into the school’s curriculum by effectively managing the change process. 50 teachers from different fields including early years, primary, history, science, mathematics, computing, visual arts, and English, were active participants in the implementation program and were asked to regularly reflect on their experiences. The data from the teacher’s reflective journals showed that both programming and STEM concepts were seamlessly integrated into the schools’ curricula and classroom practice. The teachers reported that by receiving training about these concepts and the tools that are necessary for teaching them, was beneficial for supporting the student’s development of 21st-century learning skills such as collaboration, communication and problem-solving. They also explained how the supportive attitude of the leadership team which provided time, resources and training opportunities for teachers, had an impact on the teachers' attitude towards the change process.

scholarly journals Menzies School Leadership Incubator: Insights

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian Field
Keyword(s):  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Systems Theory ◽  
School Leadership ◽  
Systems Change ◽  
Technical Systems

The Menzies School Leadership Incubator (the Incubator) is a national trans-disciplinary initiative to design, test and learn about transformative innovations that will support lasting systems change in Australian schools’ leadership. This review explores the successes, challenges and learning from work in the Incubator to date, from the perspective of a collaborative seeking longstanding systems change. The design of the review is informed by thinking in the innovation literature, principally communities of practice and socio-technical systems theory. This review was undertaken as a rapid exploration of experiences and learning, drawing on interviews with eight individuals from within the Incubator (six interviews) and collaborating partners (two interviews).

Creating a Culture of Empowerment and Accountability at St. Martin de Porres High School (A)

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Liz Livingston Howard ◽  
Sachin Waikar ◽  
Gail Berger
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
School Leadership ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Leadership Team ◽  
Nonprofit Leadership ◽  
Leadership Culture ◽  
Mba Students ◽  
Implementing Change ◽  
Critical Issues

Change is hard for all but perhaps more difficult for school leaders and other nonprofit organizations. The role that culture plays in a mission-driven organization can often be an impediment to change. This case uses a unique education institution, St. Martin dePorres School of the Cristo Rey Network, to illustrate the importance of culture in implementing change. It demonstrates how leaders can articulate a vision and create a strategy to change an organization and move toward success. The case focuses on the leadership team of Principal Mike Odiotti and Assistant Principal Judy Seiberlich and how they used cultural change as the key driver to school success. That success was defined by improved academic performance, greater accountability for students, teachers and staff and stronger empowerment of constituents. It includes an overview of how the school's leadership team used data to drive decision making. This case is ideal for MBA students, executives in nonprofit management or school leadership and can be used to illustrate change management, nonprofit leadership, culture change, mission-driven strategy or school leadership. It addresses critical issues that organizations face and provides tools and tactics that can be applied to mission-driven enterprises.Understand the role culture plays in creating change in an organization Gain an appreciation and comprehension for the relevance of shaping culture when implementing a vision Recognize norms guide people's behavior in organizations. Learn to identify the norms that promote positive cultures and those that create toxic environments Learn how to diagnose organizational culture using the “Iceberg Model” Build a repertoire of skills needed to successfully change and shape an organization's culture

School Counselors and the School Leadership Team

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (1_part_3) ◽  
pp. 2156759X2090356
Author(s):  
Sarah N. Geiger ◽  
J. P. Oehrtman
Keyword(s):  
School Leadership ◽  
School Counselors ◽  
Leadership Team ◽  
Systematic Evaluation ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Resiliency Training ◽  
Tiered System ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Counseling Model ◽  
K 12

A school leadership team is an opportunity for school counselors to demonstrate their capacity as school leaders and implement their training in using data to identify evidence-based interventions and evaluate the effectiveness of chosen interventions. We share a case study of how we utilized a school leadership team to better meet the needs of students via the development and implementation of the Stress Management and Resiliency Training Lab (SMART Lab) as a K–12 multi-tiered system of support. Use of the evidence-based school counseling model for systematic evaluation revealed that the SMART Lab intervention contributed to improvements in students’ behavior, attendance, and grades.

Interactive leadership in turbulent school climates. An exploratory study of high school principals from the City of Buenos Aires

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 339-354 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Romero ◽  
Gabriela Krichesky
Keyword(s):  
School Climate ◽  
School Leadership ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
School Principals ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Learning Climate ◽  
Instructional Role ◽  
The City

School leadership has been identified as a key function to assuring quality in education. Principals’ leadership can have a direct effect on students’ learning by improving teaching, or an indirect effect by creating conditions that foster learning. This exploratory study aims to understand how school principals exercise their leadership and its relation with the learning climate of their schools. We analyzed two dimensions: principals’ agendas and school climate perception, using the questionnaire provided by the TALIS examination, in a sample of 82 principals from secondary schools in the City of Buenos Aires. Administrative and leadership tasks and meetings occupy first place in the agenda of the principals from our sample. However, principals devote almost half of their time to interactions with non-teacher members of the school community. This suggests the preponderance of an “ interactive leadership”, which appears as a response towards “turbulent school climates”. Nevertheless, it is precisely the instructional role of principals that can effectively improve learning conditions by operating on the academic dimension of school climate. This requires training policies and professional development opportunities that improve the instructional role of school leaders so that they can develop a more proactive leadership.

Predicting School Leadership Interests in Parents of English Learners: An Exploratory Study

TESOL Journal ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 645-666 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Vera ◽  
Amy Heineke ◽  
Andrea Carr ◽  
Daniel Camacho ◽  
Marla Susman Israel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
School Leadership ◽  
English Learners ◽  
Exploratory Study
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