Developing and Empowering Leaders for Collective School Leadership

Leadership without Leaders? Starters and Followers in Online Collective Action

The Internet has been ascribed a prominent role in collective action, particularly with widespread use of social media. But most mobilisations fail. We investigate the characteristics of those few mobilisations that succeed and hypothesise that the presence of ‘starters’ with low thresholds for joining will determine whether a mobilisation achieves success, as suggested by threshold models. We ...

The Empowering Principal: Leadership Behaviors Needed by Effective Principals as Identified by Emerging Leaders and Principals

This qualitative study was designed to provide insight into effective behaviors and competencies of building principals in which leadership is broadly shared under the concept of empowerment. Principals and teacher leaders responded to five essential questions regarding what works, what does not work, the incentives, and the costs of principal leadership behaviors under empowerment paradigms. E...

Educating for School Library Leadership: Developing the Instructional Partnership Role

The American Association of School Librarians and researchers in the field have identified the instructional partner role as critical to the future of school librarianship. Educators of school librarians must help prepare preservice candidates to serve effectively in this role. This research report describes a content analysis study conducted in three sections of LS5443: Librarians as Instructi...

Developing Collective Leadership in Higher Education Final Report

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Women as Leaders: Leadership Style Versus Leaders’ Values and Attitudes