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.

Purpose – To synthesize the results of the seven country reports covered in the special issue of JEA on successful school principalship.Design/methodology/approach – Presents the main themes of the articles with their main implications and benefits. Examines the different models.Findings – The country reports provide encouraging signs of progress in addressing this limitation. Such progress seems primarily due to the development of multiple cases, over time, within each country. This allows for ongoing refinement of ideas and data collection techniques, eventually resulting in the cross‐case reports appearing in this issue. These reports provide some indication, as well, that researchers are beginning to learn from their colleagues in other countries.Originality/value – Summarizes multiple case studies of successful principal leadership in seven countries.

Understanding successful principal leadership: progress on a broken front

@contents:Distributed Leadership According to the Evidence K. Leithwood, B. Mascall, T. Strauss (Eds.) Chapter 1 Introduction: Distributed Leadership: New Perspectives on an Old Idea Section 1 Distributed Leadership: What It Is Chapter 2 Hybrid Leadership, Peter Gronn Chapter 3 Distributed Leadership: Paradigms, Policy and Paradox, John MacBeath Section 2 How Distributed Leadership Works in Schools & Districts Chapter 4 Districts, Teacher Leaders and Distributed Leadership, William A Firestone, M Cecilia Martinez Chapter 5 School Principals at Work: A Distributed Perspective, James P. Spillane, Eric M Camburn, Amber Stitziel Pareja Chapter 6 Positioning the Principals in Patterns of School Leadership Distribution Stephen E. Anderson, Shawn Moore, Jingping Sun Chapter 7 "A Job Too Big for One": Multiple Principals and Other Nontraditional Approaches to School Leadership, W Norton Grubb, Joseph J Flessa Section 3 Explaining the Effects of Distributed Leadership Chapter 8 Conceptualizing Distributed Leadership as a School Reform: Revisiting Job Redesign Theory, David Mayrowetz, Joseph Murphy, Karen Seashore Louis, Mark A Smylie Chapter 9 Distributing Leadership to Improve Outcomes for Students, Helen Timperley Chapter 10 Distributing Leadership to Make Schools Smarter, Kenneth Leithwood, Blair Mascall, Tiiu Strauss, Robin Sacks, Nadeem Memon, Anna Yashkina Chapter 11 Distributed Leadership and Knowledge Creation, Alma Harris Section 4 Chapter 12 What We Have Learned and Where We Go from Here

Distributed leadership according to the evidence

Growing appreciation for the potential impact of principals on their schools has stimulated a significant body of research concerning the principalship. While many aspects of the principalship have been the object of study, it is often difficult to determine the relationship among these studies and how these studies, as a whole, contribute to a better understanding of the principalship. It is also difficult to judge which aspects of the principalship would provide the most productive focus for subsequent research. The review reported in this article addressed both sets of difficulties by analysing a total of 135 empirical studies conducted between 1974 and 1988; 60 of these studies were reported between 1985 and 1988 and received more attention than the earlier 75. Results of the analysis identify aspects of the principalship about which much is known, approaches to research which appear to have exhausted their usefulness and areas in which further study seems likely to be of most value. One major conclus...

The Nature, Causes and Consequences of Principals′ Practices: An Agenda for Future Research

Expert Problem Solving: Evidence from School and District Leaders

This paper explores the unique implications for leaders of the accountability-driven policy contexts common to schools in many countries at the present time. A four-fold classification of government approaches to educational accountability is used to frame this exploration. These market, decentralization, professionalization and management approaches are each rooted in different assumptions about the basic problems for school reform and the nature of the desirable solutions. The paper reviews both theoretical and empirical literature identifying school leadership practices likely to be productive in response to each of the four approaches to accountability. Discussed as well are the additional challenges facing school leaders arising from the eclectic adoption of different accountability approaches as part of most reform packages. The paper ends with four suggestions for future leadership research aimed at better understanding the important influence of context on leadership practices.

Kenneth Leithwood

Papers

Understanding successful principal leadership: progress on a broken front

Distributed leadership according to the evidence

The Nature, Causes and Consequences of Principals′ Practices: An Agenda for Future Research

Expert Problem Solving: Evidence from School and District Leaders

School leadership in the context of accountability policies