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Principal Experiences In A School Consolidation, Claudius Bassey Effiom
Principal Experiences In A School Consolidation, Claudius Bassey Effiom
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Abstract
Educational leaders must operate in a complex political world that places a premium on skills and strategies involving consensus building, negotiations, and reciprocity. This dissertation is about the leadership struggles and tensions inherent in a school consolidation process. The principals highlighted in this study represent the leader of a metropolitan school which is closed and consolidated with another school in the same school district. The school district employs a defined and planned process to address many issues inherent in a school consolidation like guaranteed placement of displaced teachers in schools of their choice.
I examined the experiences of three …