ERIC Number: EJ1213710
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019-Jun
Pages: 11
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ISSN: EISSN-1555-4589
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"How Can He Be so Cruel?" Examining Issues of Trust in School Improvement Efforts
Wettlaufer, Jacqueline R. A.; Sider, Steve R.
Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, v22 n2 p3-13 Jun 2019
In this case, a high school vice-principal encounters tension and anger when she rewrites a staff member's report card comments without his knowledge. The case narrative examines the conflict that arises when, under time constraints and pressures to produce student reports, the vice-principal acts on a decision she believes is ethically correct only to find that she incurs a significant setback with staffing relationships largely due to wavering of trust. The analysis examines how transformational leadership builds self-efficacy in all staff founded on trusting relationships. Professional reflection provides a conduit through which educational leaders can assess their own practice and implement the changes needed to sustain school improvement planning.
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Instructional Leadership, Educational Improvement, Assistant Principals, Decision Making, Ethics, Transformational Leadership, Educational Practices, Self Efficacy, Reflection, Educational Change, School Effectiveness, Communities of Practice, Teacher Administrator Relationship, Foreign Countries, Report Cards, Case Studies, Conflict, Rural Schools, Faculty Development, High School Teachers
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive; Tests/Questionnaires
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education
Audience: Teachers
Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Canada
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