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Administrative Support In An East Tennessee Rural School District During The Change To Common Core State Standards, Victoria Lyn Henley
Administrative Support In An East Tennessee Rural School District During The Change To Common Core State Standards, Victoria Lyn Henley
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Common Core State Standards (CCSS), an initiative for standardizing learning in a more in-depth, analytical way, have been adopted by 45 states, Washington, D.C., and four United States Territories. When implementing such changes, rural schools face their own unique challenges, where principals and administrators play an important role in the successful culture of change. The purpose of this study was to examine how the principals and district-level administrators in Mountain View School District, an East Tennessee rural school district, supported teachers during the transition to CCSS. In this qualitative study, three principals, two assistant principals, and three district-level administrators were …