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Addressing The Teacher Shortage: A Study Of Local School Human Resource Efforts In Illinois, Sean C. Potts
Addressing The Teacher Shortage: A Study Of Local School Human Resource Efforts In Illinois, Sean C. Potts
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Shortages of highly qualified teachers may be one of the greatest challenges school districts face today. This study is an exploration of how eight school districts in Illinois, ranging from rural to suburban and encompassing elementary, high school, and unit organizations, experienced the effects of a teacher shortage in 2021. The three primary research questions of this study included: (1) To what degree were local districts feeling the impact of the teacher shortage in Illinois, and how did those shortages manifest themselves?; (2) What factors did local human resource directors believe to be contributing most to any obstacles they may …
An Investigation Of The Unintended Consequences Of Florida’S Stand Your Ground Law And Leadership’S Role In Both Implementing The Law And Revising It, Anthony Keel
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The State of Florida has become a negative representation of the Stand Your Ground Law due to the three unintended consequences which developed since that law was passed in 2005. They are the disparity of African American incarceration rates when the law is applied, the increase in justifiable homicides, and the exponential increase in concealed carry permits. The intent of this qualitative research study was to inspire the leadership of the state of Florida to actively support and participate in reexamining, reassessing, and revising the Stand Your Ground Law. The literature review suggested that the law is ambiguous because it …
Reconciling Critical Theory And Spirituality In Educational Leadership, Chet Nath Panta, Bal Chandra Luitel
Reconciling Critical Theory And Spirituality In Educational Leadership, Chet Nath Panta, Bal Chandra Luitel
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This paper showcases how spiritual engagement with critical awareness helps to bring about reforms at school being comprehensive, just, and inclusive as far as possible. It further looks for the reconciliation of spirituality and criticality so as to deconstruct deep seated leadership myths via dimensions of critical spirituality, namely critical self-reflection, deconstructive interpretation, performative creativity, transformative action, and relational self and autoethnography. Reconciling spirituality with critical perspective inspires to have a critical and holistic understanding of engaged spirituality and leadership theorising critical spirituality as an ontological and epistemic praxis to connect inner world to the outer social reality and materiality. …