It’s Time to Upgrade to Principal Selection 2.0

2018 ◽  
Vol 102 (3) ◽  
pp. 204-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brandon Palmer
Keyword(s):  
School Districts ◽  
School Success ◽  
School Principals ◽  
Principal Selection ◽  
Selection Methods ◽  
Concerted Effort ◽  
Public School Principals ◽  
Selection Processes ◽  
Predictive Methods ◽  
Reliable Methods

Education researchers have continually noted the importance of the principal in affecting student achievement and school success. Despite this importance, school districts seldom use reliable methods to select principals. The purpose of this study was to ascertain the selection processes used to select principals in California. Results indicate that public school principals were selected to their current principalship by the least reliable and least predictive methods of selection. Education stakeholders should make a concerted effort to improve principal selection methods.

Perceptions of Beginning Public School Principals

1993 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 186-202
Author(s):  
James E. Lyons
Keyword(s):  
Public School ◽  
Time Management ◽  
School Principals ◽  
Beginning Principals ◽  
New Principals ◽  
Local School ◽  
Principal's Role ◽  
Public School Principals ◽  
School Operations

This study was designed to determine the level of competency that beginning principals perceived they had in their primary areas of responsibility when appointed to the position. Secondarily, the study determined what beginning principals perceived to be their greatest challenges and frustrations, most familiar and most unfamiliar areas of responsibility, and who was most and least helpful to them as new principals. The findings indicated that beginning principals are challenged by the following: delegating responsibilities and becoming familiar with the principal's role, the local school, and school operations. Their major frustrations were role adjustment, the (large) amount of responsibility, and time management.

School leadership in Indonesia: A systematic literature review

2021 ◽  
pp. 174114322110108
Author(s):  
Nasib Tua Lumban Gaol
Keyword(s):  
School Leadership ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Principal Selection ◽  
Selection Procedures ◽  
Leadership And Management ◽  
Sustainable Solutions ◽  
Selection Processes ◽  
High Quality Journal ◽  
School Leadership Practices ◽  
Social Sciences Citation Index

This paper reviews systematically literature on school leadership in the context of Indonesian education from 2004 to 2019. Its purpose is to investigate major issues which exist in the school leadership practices in Indonesia and propose some sustainable solutions so that educational policymakers, stakeholders and scholars can improve their awareness and knowledge of school leadership. Eight core international EDLM (educational leadership and management) journals were used as the source of the literature. Additionally, a high-quality journal with the indexation of Scopus and Social Sciences Citation Index, Asia Pacific Journal of Education (APJE), was included. The literature search yielded 16 articles that were reviewed. This study reports several crucial issues that need to have serious attention paid to them, including a lack of capacity to lead and manage schools, insufficiency of published studies, and the inappropriateness of principal selection processes. The suggested solutions for these problems consist of developing principal training centres in all the provinces of Indonesia, conducting more collaboration with overseas scholars, and improving principal selection procedures. Contributions for theory, practices and further study are provided.

Leadership Styles of Public Schools Principals in the City of Hail in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: أنماط القيادة لدى مدراء مدارس التعليم العام في مدينة حائل في المملكة العربية السعودية

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (41) ◽  
pp. 161-138
Author(s):  
Fahad Husain Alshammari Fahad Husain Alshammari
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Leadership Style ◽  
School Principals ◽  
Statistical Significance ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Years Of Experience ◽  
Public School Principals ◽  
Low Degree ◽  
Study Population ◽  
High Degree

    This study aimed to: Identify the leadership style prevailing among public school principals in Hail from the teachers ’point of view, and to reveal the statistical significance of the differences in the estimates of the study sample individuals of the leadership style prevailing among school principals, which may due to variables of (educational stage, number of years of experience, and specialization). The researcher used the descriptive method, and prepared a questionnaire consisting of (24) statements distributed to (3) dimensions, which are: Democratic style, authoritarian style and chaotic style. The current study population included all the teachers of public education schools in Hail, who numbered (9390) teachers. The questionnaire was applied to a random sample of (296) teachers. The study found a set of results, the most important of which are: The prevailing leadership style among school principals is the democratic style, followed by the authoritarian style, and then the chaotic style. Where the democratic style obtained a mean (4.18) and a high degree of approval from the study sample, while the domineering style obtained a mean (1.83) and a low degree of approval from the study sample, and the chaotic style obtained an average (1.73) and a low degree of approval. Very members of the study sample. The results also showed that there are statistically significant differences in the degree of the study sample’s estimates of the leadership style prevailing among school principals due to the variable of years of experience, while there are no statistically significant differences in the degree of the study sample’s estimates of the leadership style prevailing among school principals due to the variables of the educational stage or specialization. In light of these results, the researcher recommended organizing training courses for school principals to enlighten them about the modern trends in educational leadership, and urged school principals to follow the democratic style of administration.

scholarly journals Stress and Coping Among Public School Principals in a Midwest Metropolitan Sample

SAGE Open ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 215824401982954 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason A. Kaufman
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Public School ◽  
Elevated Level ◽  
School Principals ◽  
Coping Skills ◽  
Stress And Coping ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Public School Principals ◽  
Leading Schools ◽  
And Coping

The present study sought to investigate perceptions of stress and coping among public school principals. School principals are daily called upon to make decisions regarding a range of unscripted events. The position can be stressful, and stress is known to interfere with sound decision making. It was predicted that present samples of school principals would report a mean level of elevated stress. Contrary to expectations, school principals did not report an elevated level of stress. They instead reported an ostensibly effective reliance on problem-focused and emotion-focused coping skills. It remains unclear how the school principals developed such adaptive means for coping with the stress of leading schools. It is recommended that future research explore this question so that such skills may be transmitted to principals-in-training.

scholarly journals Principals’ sense-making of resource allocation within a national reform implementation

2020 ◽  
pp. 174114322092119
Author(s):  
Sherry Ganon-Shilon ◽  
Emanuel Tamir ◽  
Chen Schechter
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
School Districts ◽  
School Leadership ◽  
High School Principals ◽  
School Principals ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Allocation Of Resources ◽  
Reform Implementation ◽  
State Schools ◽  
Complex Matter

Through a sense-making lens, this qualitative study explores high school principals’ considerations while they perceive and enact additional resources within a national reform implementation. Principals’ allocation of resources, especially as part of a national reform, is a complex matter for schools’ effectiveness in an era of accountability. This study investigates data from interviews with 22 Israeli high school principals implementing the national reform in secular and religious state schools from all school districts. Data analysis has yielded three themes: (a) promoting students’ learning achievements towards matriculation exams; (b) deepening student-teacher relations; and (c) developing a new pedagogy. Exploring the allocation of resources to suit principals’ particular needs through a sense-making prism may contribute to the scholarship and to the practice of school leadership while promoting change within a national reform implementation.

A systematic review on material selection methods

2020 ◽  
Vol 234 (7) ◽  
pp. 1032-1059
Author(s):  
Aamir AA Rahim ◽  
S Nurmaya Musa ◽  
S Ramesh ◽  
Ming K Lim
Keyword(s):  
Material Selection ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Selection Methods ◽  
Selection Processes ◽  
Classification Framework ◽  
Prisma Statement ◽  
Supporting Material ◽  
Industrial Designers ◽  
Extensive Body ◽  
Meta Analyses

Technological advancements and the growing material set in the world have created a large variety of options for industrial designers, but little attention has been given to the tools and methods that support material selection processes. In this paper, we report on a comprehensive systematic literature review (SLR) guided by the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) statement on methods or approaches reported for supporting material selection processes. This review covers various published literature, spanning from 2000 to 2018. The purpose is to examine in detail the evolution of the extensive body of research, its research streams and to position possible areas for further research. A classification framework consisting of six categories of selection approaches was derived from the extensive literature. Additionally, a detailed analysis of predominant approaches was presented along with their advantages and limitations with respect to the material selection domain. Taken together, the insights gained from this study may be of assistance to new researchers and practitioners who are looking for potential selection methods for their specific applications. The review also found that there is an increasing trend of research in recent years in the area of OR-based method application specifically on the multi-criteria decision-making supporting material selection processes.

Principals in Urban Schools Under Pressure: Relations With Parents in the Era of Test-Based Accountability

2020 ◽  
pp. 004208592093776
Author(s):  
Jordan A. Conwell ◽  
Simone Ispa-Landa
Keyword(s):  
Parent Involvement ◽  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Parental Involvement ◽  
Urban Schools ◽  
Test Scores ◽  
School Principals ◽  
Instructional Time ◽  
Academic Goals ◽  
Public School Principals ◽  
Chicago Public School

We conducted an inductive analysis of 166 interviews from a longitudinal study of 26 Chicago Public School principals. Test-based accountability pressures played a visible role in principals’ views of and relations with parents. Some principals reported banning parents from classrooms based on the need to protect instructional time to raise test scores; others thought more parental involvement would help their school reach its academic goals. Viewing principals in urban schools as street-level bureaucrats who have discretion in how they implement policy demands offers a way to understand variation in principals’ decisions about parent involvement.

US principals’ sensemaking of the future roles and responsibilities of school principals

2020 ◽  
pp. 174114321989607
Author(s):  
David B. Reid
Keyword(s):  
Public School ◽  
School Improvement ◽  
School Principals ◽  
School Principal ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Public School Principals ◽  
Future Role ◽  
Roles And Responsibilities ◽  
The Future

School principals are fundamentally important to school improvement. Due in part to this importance, the roles and responsibilities of school principals are constantly evolving. To explore leader sensemaking about this phenomenon I conducted 30 interviews with 10 public school principals in the US state of New Jersey during the 2018–2019 school year. Specifically, in this study I asked: (a) What are current public school principals’ predictions of the future role of school principals? and (b) In what way(s) do these predictions shape principals’ thinking about remaining in the profession? The findings of this work indicate: (a) principals believe the future of the school principal will focus heavily on safety and security; (b) principals believe the future of the role will include an increased emphasis on supporting student and teacher emotion and mental health; and (c) principals believe their future role as a school leader will evolve in how they interact with parents/guardians. Finally, an analysis of data shows in some cases how principals make sense of the future of the profession shapes their thinking about remaining in or exiting the role of school principal. Implications for policy and practice are discussed.

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