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Turnaround Elementary Principals In Rural Missouri, Julie C. Delaney
Turnaround Elementary Principals In Rural Missouri, Julie C. Delaney
Department of Educational Administration: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
Rural high poverty schools can often be invisible to those not living in rural areas. The number of students in rural areas is not far below the number of urban students, yet there has been little attention or research about rural school student achievement (Arnold et al., 2006; Pitchford 2011; Richard, 2005). The state of Missouri has established a program entitled Top Ten By Twenty. This initiative has been an impetus for change in rural high poverty schools. The program has led to increased student achievement in more than 60 rural high poverty schools. In this study, these schools were …
Principals Matter: Perceptions Of Principals On School Leadership, Melissa J. Poloncic
Principals Matter: Perceptions Of Principals On School Leadership, Melissa J. Poloncic
Department of Educational Administration: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
Leadership has long been studied in education. The correlation between effective schools and quality leadership has been linked in research. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to describe the experiences of secondary school principals in leadership. Using a phenomenological approach, school principals were asked in an interview to describe the essence of effective leadership through their experiences as a secondary school principal based on their self-perceptions and needs in continuous learning as a leader. Authentic insight from the perspectives of secondary principals defined experiences that influenced them most, the essential elements of effective leaders, and the perceived needs of …