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Elementary Principals And Teachers: Perception Alignment Of Leadership Behaviors, Carol F. Montague Jan 2017

Elementary Principals And Teachers: Perception Alignment Of Leadership Behaviors, Carol F. Montague

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A large urban public school system in the piedmont of North Carolina was the setting for this study. Individual school data as well as aggregated data from 25 studied schools were analyzed in order to form overall conclusion of perceptions of leadership for the elementary schools within the system. The purpose of this quantitative survey study was to examine principal perceptions of their leadership behaviors and determine if they aligned with teacher perceptions of these same behaviors using the five practices of exemplary leadership of The Leadership Challenge. The researcher disaggregated the data to identify areas of strength and weakness …


Effective Leadership: Perceptions Of Principals And The Teachers They Lead, Pamela Murphy Helms Jan 2012

Effective Leadership: Perceptions Of Principals And The Teachers They Lead, Pamela Murphy Helms

Education Dissertations and Projects

A small public school system in the piedmont of North Carolina was the setting for this study. Individual school data, as well as aggregated data from studied schools were analyzed in order to form overall conclusions of perceptions of leadership within the district. Schools were grouped according to the age of the student (elementary K-5, secondary 6-12) in an effort to provide the opportunity for further data analyses.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the principals' self-reported leadership behaviors and the teachers' perceptions of the principals' leadership behaviors using Kouzes and Posner's Leadership Practices Inventory …