Teacher evaluation policy as perceived by school principals: the case of Flanders (Belgium)

In Flanders (Belgium), a new teacher evaluation policy was issued which placed a lot of autonomy with school principals to develop and implement a new teacher evaluation system. In this study, we explore how Flemish principals perceive the new teacher evaluation policy and what influences their perception. Results demonstrate that principals perceive the policy as clear, but they are rather negative about the need, practicality, and complexity of the summative teacher evaluation. This perception is influenced by policy, context, and individual factors as is demonstrated in our qualitative analyses.     

Distributed leadership for personalized learning

Abstract

Personalized learning refers to a collection of practices designed to place student interests and needs at the heart of schooling. Schools that implement personalized learning need leaders that support educators and students in redesigning the core practices of teaching and learning in K-12 schools. To answer the question of how leaders support this redesign, we use distributed leadership theory to focus on the macrotasks and microtasks that leaders enact to create the conditions for personalized learning practices. Drawing on a five-year, qualitative study of 11 personalized learning programs in the Midwest, we identify three macrotasks supporting personalized learning: reorganizing learning environments to support student voice and choice, assembling idiosyncratic technology ecosystems to distribute teaching and learning tasks, and redesigning instructional time to prioritize student’s interests, agency, and learning relationships. After we describe a number of microtasks associated with each macrotask, we discuss how a consideration of these kinds of leadership tasks can open the contemporary discussion of personalized learning from a narrow focus on learning technologies to an expansive vision of student-centered school reform.     

Theory Competition and the Process of Change

The reasons why many educational change initiatives have little impact are often framed in terms of either a poorly designed process on the part of the change initiator, or in terms of problems with the attitudes, skills and/or knowledge of those responsible for implementation. In this paper, we seek to integrate these two perspectives more closely by focusing on their interface and the competing theories frequently held by the change initiators and implementers. This concept of theory competition is illustrated with a case of a national literacy initiative in New Zealand in which the change initiators wished to raise the achievement of low performing students through the development of “learning-centred” leadership in schools and evidence-based practice. The desired outcomes were not achieved because theories about what it means to be a successful leader in such a situation, the data needed to undertake the type of evidence-based analysis envisioned and school personnel beliefs about the target students were understood differently by those responsible for initiating the change and those responsible for implementing it.     

浅析企业战略联盟的共同愿景调节机制

在先进管理理论的指导下，企业内部生产力潜能已逐渐被挖掘，而通过企业间不同的合作方式结成的战略联盟，成为改善和增强企业生产力和竞争能力的重要方式。从战略联盟的核心要素－共同愿景出发，分析了联盟企业共同愿景的一般形成过程，并给出了共同愿景的调节机制模型。     

包容性领导能促进科研人员提升创新绩效吗?——一个有中介的调节作用模型

企业科研人员的创新工作对于企业的长期生存与发展至关重要,因此,如何提高科研人员的创新绩效已经成为当前企业迫切需要解决的问题。在文献回顾的基础上,通过对20家高科技企业的356名科研人员及其直接主管的配对数据进行相关、回归分析,检验包容性领导、责任心以及主管信任对科研人员创新绩效影响的一个有中介的调节作用模型。研究结果表明,包容性领导对科研人员创新绩效具有显著正向影响;责任心显著调节包容性领导与科研人员创新绩效之间的关系;而且,责任心对包容性领导与科研人员创新绩效之间的调节作用以主管信任为中介。研究结论丰富了领导风格与员工创新等方面的研究,并对企业提高员工创新绩效具有实践上的指导意义。     

校长教学领导：内涵、特征与培养策略

随着教育改革的深入推进和教学专业化的凸显,校长不能仅仅扮演行政管理者的角色,还应该成为一名积极的教学领导者。教学领导是校长领导力的核心和关键,它是一种专业领导力。这种专业领导力建立在专业权威和道德权威的基础上,以尊重教师的专业自主权为前提,并表现为多种角色。校长行使教学领导主要通过创建共同愿景、关注课堂、促进教师专业发展、构建中层领导团队等途径实现。校长教学领导力的获得和提升,不仅要通过相关训练来帮助校长提高教学领导的能力,也要减少校长过多的行政负担,但最重要的是校长自身的修炼和提升。     

民族主义与自由主义视阈中的文化领导权问题——对苏雪林与胡适关于文化动态问题通信的考察

苏雪林与胡适关于文化动态问题的两封通信,由于意识形态的原因,长期以来未受到应有的重视。通信的核心内容并非关于鲁迅的评价,而是抗战前的文化领导权问题。两人的分歧,凸显了民族主义与自由主义的不同视域下,右翼知识分子内部不同的政治文化选择。     

校长领导权力合法性危机的反思与超越

校长领导权力合法性危机是指校长领导权力失去正当性且未获得被领导者的认同、支持和服从,其实质上是一种认同危机,主要表现为公共性危机、程序性危机、价值性危机及有效性危机等。通过注重公共意志及公共利益价值取向的联结、遵循程序正义与实质正义原则的统一、实现以人为本与交往伦理的结合及处理好适当集权与合理分权的协调等范式,可以缓解校长领导权力的合法性危机,最终实现学校的有效发展。     

基于变革型领导理论的高校教育创新机制研究

变革型领导理论作为一种科学的领导学研究与实践的范式,应用到高校教育理论与实践中去,具有十分重要的现实与理论意义。它有助于加深和丰富高校领导理论的内涵,有助于提高高校领导理论的品质,有助于构建高校教育创新机制。     

基于分布式领导的教师领导研究述评

教师领导研究是近30年来英、美、澳等国兴起的基于分布式领导的一种领导理论。目前。关于教师领导的定义有30余种,诸多学者对教师领导的性质、功能、影响教师领导的条件以及如何产生与支持教师领导等方面做了研究,在理论上取得了很大进展。但教师领导研究尚存在一些颇有争议的问题。