Developing Instructional Leadership: The Challenge of State Wide Leadership Academies

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...

The Leadership Challenge: Preparing and Developing Catholic School Principals

[The leadership challenge for nurses].

This study aimed at learning the opinion of nurses about the possibility of becoming a leader, identifying the characteristics and abilities of an effective leader and presenting the favorable and unfavorable points related to leadership performance, according to nurses' self-evaluation. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with 36 hospital nurses and analyzed through the cont...

Transformational Classroom Leadership: Developing the Teacher Leadership Notion

The literature on teacher-leadership suggests that the notion has developed over time and some have argued that this development comprises three stages or ‘waves’ that progressively de-link the idea from the formal organizational hierarchy. The third wave emphasizes that teacher-leadership is a process rather than a positional concept and notes that \teacher-leaders tend to possess many of the ...

Developing your leadership pipeline.

Why do so many newly minted leaders fail so spectacularly? Part of the problem is that in many companies, succession planning is little more than creating a list of high-potential employees and the slots they might fill. It's a mechanical process that's too narrow and hidebound to uncover and correct skill gaps that can derail promising young executives. And it's completely divorced from organi...