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The Relationship Between Middle School Design Implementation And An Open Organizational Climate, James Russell Lehman

Culminating Projects in Education Administration and Leadership

The concept of middle school design found its origin through the early work of noted curriculum authority, Dr. William Alexander (Lounsbury, 2009). Recognizing the fact that preadolescents represented a time when young people were facing what may be the most difficult time in their lives, he challenged the educational community to provide a different type of instruction. Child-centered in philosophy, and centered around teacher-teacher, teacher-student, and student-student relationships, its central focus is to create a climate for personal growth and intellectual development. By its very nature it requires that people are willing to work together.

The concept of school climate …

A Study Of The Principals’ Perceptions Of The Impact Of The Decentralization Reform In Albania, Eralda Jesku

Culminating Projects in Education Administration and Leadership

The purpose of this study was to explore the impact of decentralization reform on the principals’ perceptions about their role(s) and capacities, and decentralization‘s strengths, weaknesses, and barriers that principals experienced in a southern Albanian school district from June 2008 through June 2013. The results of this study will be used to assist educational leaders in the implementation of decentralization reform in Albania as it moves toward its next phase.

A wealth of studies have identified differences in the role(s) and capacities of principals, as well as their perceptions of the strengths, weaknesses, and barriers resultant from decentralization reform in …

Minnesota Public School Consolidation: Factors Most Influential When Voting In Favor Of Consolidation, Lowell A. Haagenson

Culminating Projects in Education Administration and Leadership

The purpose of this study was to ascertain and rate the importance of factors which were perceived by school board members as pivotal in their decisions to consolidate their school districts with one or more other school districts. Additionally, this study intended to determine whether or not school board members – serving at the time of a school district’s consolidation–continued to agree with the value of that consolidation decision and if so, the comparative strength of their perceptions of the outcomes of consolidation of the school district at the time of consolidation and the degree to which those perceptions continued …

A Case Study Of Principals' Perceptions In Supporting Teacher Leaders, Melissa K. Johnson

Culminating Projects in Education Administration and Leadership

The purpose of the study was to examine select principal’s perspectives of the role of principals in supporting teacher leaders in one Midwestern public school district. The researcher intended to explore the conditions principals employed to support teacher leaders, the communication channels employed to support teacher leaders, and principals’ perceptions of the work of teacher leaders. A case study was used to examine the research questions that relate to the role of the principal in supporting teacher leaders. Four principals from one school district were selected as study participants. The case study format allowed for the collection of individual interview …

Teachers’ And Administrator’S Perceptions And Concerns Of Reciprocal Peer Review Program, Gracious Anderson Msuya

Culminating Projects in Education Administration and Leadership

This study examined a pilot Reciprocal Peer Review Program (RPRP) that was implemented for 1 year by a mid-size suburban school district in Minnesota. In the RPRP two teachers were paired up for the purpose of observing each other and “exchanging feedback in an alternating fashion” (Kohler, Ezell, & Paluselli, 1999, p. 154). The study reviewed the pilot program to determine teachers’ and administrator’s perceptions and concerns of the program. The study also sought to determine features of the pilot program that participants considered to be effective and worth keeping and features of the program that were considered not effective …