The global pandemic opened a portal for different paradigm of educational leadership to emerge. Reaching beyond only critique the Conversations in Urban Educationentional, color-evasive research and practice, we share how our systems-focused preparation program turned ancestral knowledges, relationality, cultural practices embedded Indigenous, Black other communities color lead possible transfo...

In their valuable discussion of whistleblowing in healthcare organisations, Mannion and Davies highlight the importance of organisational culture in influencing whether people raise concerns, and whether these concerns are listened to and acted upon. The role of leadership in shaping organisational culture is well-established and in this commentary, we will examine the influence of leaders in c...

INTRODUCTION Burnout is usually defined as a state of physical, emotional and mental exhaustion that results from long-term involvement in work situations that are emotionally demanding. A great deal of researches has been devoted to the understanding of factors contributing to burnout and the negative effects that burnout has in the cost and the quality of the provided healthcare. DISCUSSION...

This paper discusses literature on the factors that contribute to and detract from reforms being implemented in schools from the perspective of a former teacher. The effects of school culture, the emotional and relational aspects of teaching and the change process, the importance of professional development, the need for time in teachers’ professional lives, and school leadership are analyzed. ...

___________________________ Author’s Note (November, 2014): I was wary of revisiting an essay that was both informal and dated but found it less horrible than I had feared—perhaps because I have been stuck in a rut for 15 years! For an update on Section 2 (i.e., relational contracts, management, and leadership), see Gibbons and Henderson (2012). For an update on Section 1 (i.e., economic models...

Non-verbal group dynamics are often opaque to a formal quantitative analysis of communication flow. In this context, ensemble musicians can be a reliable model of expert group coordination. In fact, bodily motion is a critical component of inter-musician coordination and thus could be used as a valuable index of sensorimotor communication. Here we measured head movement kinematics of an expert ...