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Productive School Governance: Success Case Studies from New Zealand
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Piggot-Irvine, Eileen – International Electronic Journal for Leadership in Learning, 2008
The rhetoric abounds concerning the types of effective, high trust, interactions that should exist for a school governing body. In practise, however, such interactions are often difficult to define, establish, maintain, and sustain. The study reported on in this paper attempted to identify interactions linked to perceptions of high trust via a…
Descriptors: Governance, Foreign Countries, Trustees, Case Studies
Sustaining Excellence in Experienced Principals? Critique of a Professional Learning Community Approach
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Piggot-Irvine, Eileen – International Electronic Journal for Leadership in Learning, 2006
Independent reviewer evaluations of the Ministry of Education (MoE) funded Principal Professional Learning Community (PPLC) programme for experienced principals in New Zealand (NZ) suggest a highly valued and strongly supportive programme. My own critique of the programme, against criteria for "strong" professional learning communities (PLCs),…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Communities of Practice, Interprofessional Relationship, Professional Development