Browsing by Author "Searby, Linda"

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Assistant Principals: Facilitating Factors and Barriers in Fulfilling the Role of Instructional Leader

Duncan, Brittney (2017-07-25)

The purpose of this descriptive qualitative content analysis study was to identify not only how Alabama assistant principals define instructional leadership, but what facilitating factors and barriers they face in the role ...

Elementary Assistant Principals as Instructional Leaders: Characteristics and Experiences That Contribute to Their Perceptions of Readiness for the Role

Hunter, Robert (2016-05-26)

The purpose of this quantitative study was to identify the characteristics and experiences of elementary assistant principals that contributed to their perceptions of readiness to serve as instructional leaders. Data were ...

Examining Partnerships between K-12 District Schools and College of Education Leadership Preparation Programs: A Case Study

Kitt, Zelda (2016-08-02)

Abstract In response to ongoing criticisms of the educational leadership preparation programs, the state of Alabama supported a redesign of educational leadership preparation programs which required a partnership between ...

Instructional Coaches as Teacher Leaders: Roles, Challenges, and Facilitative Factors

Vanita, Pharrams (2016-05-05)

Teacher leaders represent change agents within a school and they have formal and informal roles to improve teaching and learning. This study focuses on one of the formal roles of teacher leadership which is instructional ...

Recruiting and Retaining Teachers in Remote Rural School Districts: Strategies for Success

Lyles, Alicia (2016-12-08)

The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the strategies used to recruit and retain teachers in remote rural school districts, from the perspective of the superintendent, the principal, and the teacher. Data was ...

The Role of Hope in School Leadership

Weldon, Sharon (2016-12-09)

The purpose of this mixed methods study was to explore the relationship of hope in school principal leadership through (a) the administration of a self-report instrument that measures trait hope in the school principal, ...

School Desegregation: Participant Perceptions of a Freedom of Choice Initiative in the South

Herring, Cristen Medora Pratt (2015-07-29)

This study investigated one school system’s implementation of a Freedom of Choice plan to desegregate its public schools prior to being mandated to do so. The research examined the process to implement a Freedom of Choice ...

Secondary Assistant Principals as Instructional Leaders: Characteristics and Experiences That Contribute to Their Perceptions of Readiness for the Role

Enloe, Vohn (2016-06-29)

This quantitative research study examined the characteristics and experiences that are significant in contributing to secondary assistant principals’ perceptions of readiness to serve as instructional leaders. Secondary ...

Socialization of Female and Male Assistant Principals

Daugherty, Alicia (2017-04-13)

Assistant principals have one of the hardest jobs in the school, if not the hardest. Their role in a school generally consists of discipline, buses, textbooks, working with angry parents, and many more. Their hours are ...

The Soft Side of Leadership: Principals’ Enactment of the Love Languages and Leadership Frames in Influencing School Culture

Baugh, Shay (2015-07-28)

The culture of a school defines how the school works in regards to rules, relationships, and attitudes. The current research focuses primarily on the principal’s academic intelligence and how it impacts school culture. ...

Understanding the Distributed Leadership Experiences of Principals, Assistant Principals, and Teacher Leaders in High Schools

Holloway, Mary (2017-04-25)

The theory of distributed leadership is a relatively new concept; thus, it has been under researched. It is important to understand distributed leadership because there is a need to acknowledge an even broader perspective ...

Virtual Reality in Higher Education: A Case Study at the Air University's Squadron Officer College

Millican, Tony (2017-04-25)

For decades, constructivist educational theorists such as Dewey, Piaget, Vygotsky, Papert, and Bruner have advocated that for deep learning to occur, learners should have some type of experience related to the subject ...