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Autor/inn/en | Thurman, Lance E.; Hackmann, Donald G. |
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Titel | Leading the Newly Consolidated High School: Exciting Opportunity or Overwhelming Challenge? |
Quelle | In: Educational Considerations, 42 (2015) 2, S.1-12 (12 Seiten)
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Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
ISSN | 0146-9283 |
Schlagwörter | High Schools; Consolidated Schools; Leadership Effectiveness; Leadership Role; Case Studies; School District Reorganization; Principals; Academic Achievement; Instructional Leadership; Performance Factors; Administrator Behavior; Administrator Attitudes; Interviews; Participative Decision Making; School Culture; Organizational Communication; Governance; Board Administrator Relationship; Board of Education Role; Strategic Planning; Resistance to Change; Educational Practices; Organizational Change; Organizational Culture; Organizational Climate; Effective Schools Research High school; Oberschule; Consolidated school; Mittelpunktschule; Zentralschule; Führungseffizienz; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Principal; Schulleiter; Schulleistung; Instruction; Leadership; Bildung; Erziehung; Führung; Leistungsindikator; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Schulkultur; Schulleben; Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildungspolitik; Finanzierung; Strategy; Planning; Strategie; Planung; Bildungspraxis; Organisationswandel; Unternehmenskultur; Organisationsklima; Schulforschung |
Abstract | In the current economic times, school personnel are regularly challenged to reduce the costs of operating the nation's school systems. School district consolidations often are proposed as a mechanism to realize fiscal savings for local communities; indeed, the number of U.S. school districts has declined dramatically over the past 70 years, decreasing from 117,108 in 1939-40 to 13,809 in 2008-2009 (Snyder and Dillow 2010). Consolidations may occur to promote fiscal and administrative efficiency, or as a result of significant enrollment declines, diminished real estate valuations, and limited availability of highly qualified teachers (Howley, Johnson, and Petrie 2011; Zimmer, DeBoer, and Hirth 2009). An overlooked topic in the research has been the high school principal's role in guiding the formation of a unified culture once the consolidation occurs--a responsibility that can be particularly challenging when two or more schools are consolidated to create a new high school. Time-honored traditions may be discarded and new rituals developed as students and faculty work to form a unified learning community. This article describes a case study of one principal throughout the initial year of a newly consolidated high school. It begins with a brief review of school consolidation research and research on leadership for learning, which served as a theoretical framework for this study. It then presents findings from the case study; in the discussion and implications sections, comparisons are made to prior studies and recommendations are provided for school districts and for policy. (ERIC). |
Anmerkungen | Kansas State University, College of Education. Available from: New Prairie Press. Kansas State University Libraries, 1117 Mid-Campus Drive North, Manhattan, KS 66506. Tel: 785-532-7444; e-mail: nppress@ksu.edu; Web site: http://newprairiepress.org/edconsiderations/ |
Erfasst von | ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC |
Update | 2020/1/01 |