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Recruiting, retaining and retraining secondary school teachers and principals in Sub-Saharan Africa
This working paper is based on country case studies of Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Madagascar, Tanzania, and Uganda, and an extensive literature review. In many parts of Africa, the demand for secondary teachers substantially exceeds the supply, due to factors such as secondary teacher attrition, bottlenecks in the teacher preparation system, and perceived unattractive conditions of service. Few countries have strong policies, strategies, and programs for recruiting able secondary school graduates to secondary teaching. The paper suggests several critical and promising areas for improvement in the quality of secondary teachers through new approaches to recruitment; pre-service and in-service teacher development; and improvements in the deployment, utilization, compensation, and conditions of service for teachers.
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Quandaries of school leadership : voices from principals in the field
This work provides insights into the everyday practices of school leaders as told through the real-life stories of principals. The editors and their contributors blend practice with theory, helping aspiring leaders to discover that school leadership is not simply putting prescribed solutions into action, but a constant encounter with quandaries that demand thinking, responding, and adjusting to the situations at hand.
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The Principal's Guide to Conflict Management
Conflict is certain to show up in any school, so how do you as the leader know how to respond or when to intervene?
Disagreements, friction, and even outright hostility are a common and unavoidable result of people working together, and not all conflict is necessarily bad; it can also provide an opportunity to learn and grow. Whether the situation involves students, parents, or staff, school leadership expert Jen Schwanke has specific advice to help you navigate conflict within a three-step cycle of decision making:
* Anticipate and recognize different patterns of conflict.
* Analyze the underlying causes and effects of any given conflict.
* Act—or choose not to act—in a way that best helps the school.
Managing conflict is a critical leadership skill that you can learn to accept, embrace, and make a healthy and productive part of your role. The Principal's Guide to Conflict Management describes the mindset skills you need and provides scenarios, strategies, and reflection activities to help you manage all kinds of conflict with clarity and confidence.
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Hacking leadership : 10 ways great leaders create schools that teachers, students, and parents love
In this fifth installment of the Hack learning series, administrators Joe Sanfelippo and Tony Sinanis identify 10 problems with school leadership and provide right-now solutions for building a rich community while bringing fun back to school.
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Advancing Middle Level Leadership: Middle School Principal Preparation Programs and Approaches to Leadership
Middle school principals are essential to creating a successful learning environment. They should possess expertise in adolescent development, foster a diverse and equitable school community, and invest in teacher development. This review searched, organized, and analyzed the literature between 2019 and 2024 specifically regarding middle school principal preparation programs and leadership approaches. We sought to identify any alignment with the leadership and organization characteristics outlined in the Association of Middle Level Education’s The Successful Middle School: This We Believe framework The findings revealed a slight relationship between principal preparation programs and the leadership and organizational characteristics outlined by Bishop and Harrison. Our findings also revealed that many states lack specific credentialing requirements for middle school principals. To strengthen the field of middle school education, specifically principal preparation, further research will help educational leaders align their practices with middle school characteristics and advocate for the required credentials in this field.
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In the Crossfire
As media reports declare crisis after crisis in public education, Americans find themselves hotly debating educational inequalities that seem to violate their nation's ideals. Why does success in school track so closely with race and socioeconomic status? How to end these apparent achievement gaps?In the Crossfirebrings historical perspective to these debates by tracing the life and work of Marcus Foster, an African American educator who struggled to reform urban schools in the 1960s and early 1970s. As a teacher, principal, and superintendent-first in his native Philadelphia and eventually in Oakland, California-Foster made success stories of urban schools and children whom others had dismissed as hopeless, only to be assassinated in 1973 by the previously unknown Symbionese Liberation Army in a bizarre protest against an allegedly racist school system. Foster's story encapsulates larger social changes in the decades after World War II: the great black migration from South to North, the civil rights movement, the decline of American cities, and the ever-increasing emphasis on education as a ticket to success. Well before the accountability agenda of the No Child Left Behind Act or the rise of charter schools, Americans came into sharp conflict over urban educational failure, with some blaming the schools and others pointing to conditions in homes and neighborhoods. By focusing on an educator who worked in the trenches and had a reputation for bridging divisions,In the Crossfiresheds new light on the continuing ideological debates over race, poverty, and achievement. Foster charted a course between the extremes of demanding too little and expecting too much of schools as agents of opportunity in America. He called for accountability not only from educators but also from families, taxpayers, and political and economic institutions. His effort to mobilize multiple constituencies was a key to his success-and a lesson for educators and policymakers who would take aim at achievement gaps without addressing the full range of school and nonschool factors that create them.
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Our principal breaks a spell!
After the principal of P.S. 88 gets caught up in a messy spell by one of his students, the other kids rally to help him out.
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Entrepreneurial skills and their relationship with strategic orientation among secondary school principals in sahab district The Researchers
This study aimed to identify the entrepreneurial skills and their relationship with strategic orientation among secondary school principals in Sahab district from the perspective of teachers. The researchers used the descriptive correlational method. The study population consisted of 2,320 male and female teachers, and the sample included 400 teachers from secondary schools in Sahab district, representing 17% of the total population. To achieve the study objectives, the researchers developed a study tool consisting of a questionnaire with two parts: the first part measured the level of entrepreneurial skills among school principals and included 46 items; the second part measured the strategic orientation of school principals and included 24 items. The study results indicated that the level of entrepreneurial skills among the principals was high. Similarly, the level of strategic orientation among the principals was also high. The results also showed a positive and statistically significant correlation between the level of entrepreneurial skills and strategic orientation among secondary school principals in the Directorate of Education in Sahab, as perceived by teachers.The study concluded with several recommendations, the most important of which was to enhance the knowledge and skills of public school principals in the field of entrepreneurial skills through the preparation of training programs, organizing meetings and workshops within schools, and coordinating with education faculties at universities. The study also proposed some mechanisms that could be used to enhance the level of strategic orientation in schools.
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