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Empowering School Leadership Across Nations: A Comparative Study Of Differences Between Leadership Practices And Their Relationships With Empowerment Amongst Administrators And Teachers In Eight Large Urban Secondary School Districts In The United States And Canada, Anya Niazov

College of Education Theses and Dissertations

U.S. schools have been shown to underperform other industrialized nations on tests of academic achievement. Canada is a higher-performing nation on international assessments and has a similar educational system to the United States. This study aims to determine if there are differences between urban U.S. and Canadian secondary schools and specifically addresses school leadership in these schools. The study employs transformational leadership theory to assess cross-district and cross-national differences in leadership behaviors. In this quantitative study, I characterize differences in administrator and teacher leadership behaviors, teacher satisfaction and empowerment, and their correlations within North American schools. Survey data were collected …