Changing roles in sustaining successful charter school leadership in high poverty schools: Voices from the field

Effective educational leadership is essential for the success of schools and ultimately student achievement. The impact of school leadership may be even more pronounced in charter schools. Due to current and unprecedented growth, unique design, and complexities of political, financial, and governance issues they face, there is a need for more highly qualified charter school leaders and perhaps even “differently” prepared leaders. In this qualitative study, the authors documented the characteristics and skills of two successful, sustained charter school leaders who retrospectively described their evolved and evolving roles over twenty five years. Each transformed high-poverty, low-performing schools with at-risk populations and led with vision, passion, and a relentless desire to positively influence their organizations and ultimately improve student success in their communities. Although many of their skills and characteristics fall within existing theories, such as situational leadership, transformational leadership, and distributive leadership, they embodied a level of dedication and commitment to the original communities in which they founded charters lasting over a quarter of a century. The findings suggest that founding a charter school and seeing it through to success over time may more closely resemble missionary work than traditional school leadership.     

废除领导干部终身制是中国共产党先进性的一次伟大展示

在拨乱反正时期,中国共产党做出了废除领导干部终身制的决定,在改革开放时期,中国共产党第二代领导集体与第三代领导集体实现了顺利交替,这一决定的做出和实践是中国共产党先进性的一次伟大展示。     

Agency and Structure: Principals’ Ability to Bring about Sustainable Improvement in Underperforming Schools in South Africa

This article reports on a study of which the purpose was to understand the role of principals in changing underperforming schools towards sustainable improvement in one circuit area of North-West, South Africa. School principals play a crucial role in guiding schools towards sustainable improvement by shaping a vision of academic success for all learners. Managing teaching is one of the core modules in South Africa’s new national qualification for school principals, and that being the case, principals should play a central role in effecting the educational transformation of all learners. The quality of principals’ leadership is the key factor driving the transformational turnaround and improvement required in schools. They perform a highly complex and dynamic role in enhancing and sustaining school improvement. It was the goal of this qualitative study to explore cultural, structural, and agential challenges faced by principals in their effort to provide for change and improvement in their schools. Six schools were purposefully selected to participate in the study and semi-structured interviews were used to gather data from the principals. The study established that paying attention to cultural, structural and agential factors in schools increases their ability to sustain learner improvement.     

Transforming Education through School-community Partnerships: Lessons from Four Rural Early Childhood Development Schools in Zimbabwe

This article presents and discusses the findings of a multi-case study that was conducted in four remote rural early childhood development (ECD) schools located in the Chiredzi district, in Masvingo province, Zimbabwe. The article explored how school heads enhanced resources mobilisation in remote rural ECD schools through school-community partnerships in order to improve teaching and learning conditions. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with the school heads, deputy heads and teachers in charge. Document reviews and observations were also used to augment data from interviews. Invitational leadership was used as an analytic tool for the study. The findings suggest that the school heads succeeded to some degree in bringing parents and various stakeholders to the ECD schools to deal with the challenges facing them. Various strategies were used including tapping into local knowledge to ensure that parents who could afford to pay fees managed to do so.     

气质类型相融度对高职班委整体效能的影响

根据分层抽样原则选取20个班级的班委群体作为研究对象,探讨高职院校班委群体中各成员气质类型相融度与其整体效能之间的关系。结果表明,高职院校班委群体成员中气质类型列前三位的是多血—粘液质、多血质和粘液质;高低效能两类班委群体成员的气质类型在多血质、胆汁—粘液质、多血—抑郁质上存在显著差异,其班长在气质类型上亦有明显差异。     

浅析网络环境下多元智能理论对高职英语听力教学的影响

本文作者结合自身在高职英语听力教学中的实际经验和影响听力教学的因素,就如何在网络环境下.运用多元智能理论,指导和提高听力教学提出了建议.     

论建立高校领导班子建设评估的长效机制

建立高校领导班子评估的长效机制是使高校领导班子建设评估得以保证的一个必要环节,本文拟从以下方面对建立高校领导班子评估的长效机制进行探析：建立和完善科学的高校领导干部业绩考核体系;完善考核的监督机制;建立完善激励机制;建立健全各类规范制约机制。     

论多元族群共生的中国儿童文学

中国各民族共同创建了悠久、灿烂的中国儿童文学。中国各民族原生活态儿童文学曾经代表着中国儿童文学的存在,自远古起就活跃于歌者、说者的通神语境和巫师的祝告祷告行为之中,以口口相传的方式在各民族儿童中代代传承。梳理多元族群共生的中国原生活态儿童文学,是建立中国本土儿童文学史新观念的一个起点。     

学前儿童早期阅读内涵解析

学前儿童的早期阅读在我国当前学前教育理论研究中日益受到重视,但在实践中,仍然存在很多错误的认识和做法。针对这一现状,本文从五个方面阐释了对学前儿童早期阅读的认识,具体包括早期阅读的意义、早期阅读的目标、早期阅读与识字的关系、早期阅读材料的选择以及早期阅读的实施,以此构建现实中的理性行为。     

运用现代教育技术促进教学评价多元化的实践研究——以新疆教育学院实验小学为例

文章以新疆教育学院实验小学为个案,对小学课堂教学运用现代教育技术促进教学评价的方法进行了系统、深入的调查分析,探索运用实验小学现有的现代教育技术资源促进教学评价多元化的有效路径。