Basics of qualitative research: Grounded theory procedures and techniques

The present historical moment may seem a particularly inopportune time to review Bowling Alone, Robert Putnam's latest exploration of civic decline in America. After all, the outpouring of volunteerism, solidarity, patriotism, and self-sacrifice displayed by Americans in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks appears to fly in the face of Putnam's central argument: that \"social capital\" -defined as \"social networks and the norms of reciprocity and trustworthiness that arise from them\" (p. 19)'has declined to dangerously low levels in America over the last three decades. However, Putnam is not fazed in the least by the recent effusion of solidarity. Quite the contrary, he sees in it the potential to \"reverse what has been a 30to 40-year steady decline in most measures of connectedness or community.\"' As an example of how the current \"war on terrorism\" could generate a durable civic renewal, Putnam points to the burst in civic practices that occurred during and after World War II, which he says \"permanently marked\" the generation that lived through it and had a \"terrific effect on American public life over the last half-century.\" 3 If Americans can follow this example and channel their current civic

Bowling alone: The collapse and revival of American community

Building Leadership Effectiveness This program encourages leaders to develop practices that transform values into action, vision into realities, obstacles into innovations, and risks into rewards. Participants will be introduced to the five practices of exemplary leadership: modeling the way, inspiring a shared vision, challenging the process, enabling others to act, and encouraging the heart Coaching & Communicating for Performance Coaching & Communicating for Performance is a highly interactive program that will give supervisors and managers the opportunity to build skills that will enable them to share expectations and set objectives for employees, provide constructive feedback, more effectively engage in learning conversations, and coaching opportunities. Skillful Conflict Management for Leaders As a leader, it is important to understand conflict and be effective at conflict management because the way conflict is resolved becomes an integral component of our university’s culture. This series of conflict management sessions help leaders learn and put into practice effective strategies for managing conflict.

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Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity

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Burnout and Work Engagement among Teachers.

Performance appraisal is one of a number of "standard operating procedures" (SOPs) used by virtually all nlature organizations SOPs help ensure that tasks fundamental to the organization's functioning are carried out reliably, often in the face of changing personnel They do this by supporting and reinforcing behaviors considered useful in accomplishing the goals of the organization Changes in an organization's goals and the development of better means for accomplishing such goals (ie, "first-order" changes), however, create the need for changes in standard operating procedures (ie, "second-order" changes) Failure to see the need for and to make these second-order changes seriously jeopardizes the implementation and institutionalization of first-order changes (Cuban, 1988; Seeley, 1992) Explicit directions for practice

Using the appraisal of school leaders as an instrument for school restructuring

This multimethod study generated and tested a “best evidence” model of school improvement processes (SIP) capable of improving student achievement. Initially developed through the review of a comprehensive body of previous empirical research, the model was further refined through a 2, 5-year longitudinal study in 10 schools. A quantitative test of this refined model was then conducted using survey evidence from administrators, teachers, parents, and students in 100 elementary schools. The model as a whole explained modest but significant amounts of variation in student achievement across schools. School leadership and SIP implementation processes accounted for the largest proportion of explained variation.

The development and testing of a school improvement model

In this paper the authors provide a synopsis of their results to date by organising them in response to four questions. These are questions about: leadership actions that account for sustained improvement or effectiveness in their school over at least several years; how the influence of these actions is exercised; differences among heads’ leadership associated with school sector, phase of work and student intake characteristics; patterns of actions taken by heads toward school improvement. For each of these questions they also point to additional research that would be valuable, and their own next steps as well as the research of others.

Kenneth Leithwood

Papers

Using the appraisal of school leaders as an instrument for school restructuring

The development and testing of a school improvement model

What we have learned, what we need to know more about

Handbook of Curriculum Evaluation

The effects of different sources of leadership on student engagement in school