This portraiture study of Amherst Regional Middle School, Amherst, Massachusetts, examined a case of shared and distributed leadership. The organizational changes at Amherst have fostered collaboration, new patterns of behavior, and changed expectations of what rigorous academic curriculum, new patterns of behavior, and changed expectations of…

The purpose of this study was to develop an understanding of the relationships among principal transformational leadership, school leadership-team transformational leadership, and school culture. Twelve middle schools composed the sample population. Three surveys were used, each one focusing on collecting data related to principal leadership, team…

Path analyses of information from 780 Hong Kong elementary and 1,197 secondary teachers in the midst of national reforms indicated that internal school conditions (transformational leadership, supportive culture, flexible structure) promoted organizational learning and change. External and contextual conditions provided incentives and motivation…

Summarizes a study examining the nature of the relationship between transformational and transactional leadership and the nature of the relationships between specified school outcomes and the constructs of transformational and transactional leadership. Both canonical analysis and partial least-squares analysis were applied to an empirically…

School restructuring creates new expectations of administrators that transcend instructional leadership notions. Describes a 4-year research program exploring transformational forms of leadership in restructuring schools. Summarizes evidence about transformational leadership practices and behaviors, their effects on school and teacher variables,…

Outlines characteristics of transformational leadership: clear vision, strategic goals, decisiveness, willingness to listen, and commitment to change. Uses the Extension unit of the University of Alberta to illustrate a model of continuing studies and issues faced by deans. (Contains 14 references.) (SK)

Describes a study that investigated the relationship between transformational leadership practices, culture, and organizational effectiveness in 12 small manufacturing and service companies. Discusses difference between high-performance and mixed-performance companies and describes results from the Leadership Practice Inventory (LPI) and the…

Although William P. Foster assumed the critical theorist's stance of revealing the presumptions and assumptions of educational leadership, he, among others, also provided the underpinnings for the field's current attention to issues of social justice. This article furthers the call, which Foster articulated in his final article, to assert…

Problems noted with recent organizational leadership suggest the need to look for different ways to develop leaders. To test the effectiveness of an innovative "levels of leadership" instructional model, the authors of this study asked 123 students to complete self-report measures of orientations toward service and attitudes in a cross-sectional…

This on-site coach gives a personal account of how she adjusted to the needs of those with whom she works and fit her new role into the school dynamic. She points to three important aspects to surviving and thriving as a coach: disposition, process, and prioritization. (Contains 3 resources.)

This field guide provides a look into education in relation to a concept that has already been established in science, business and therapy. This book will encourage and educate readers about systemic thinking through examples and ideas pertinent to education and its reform. Following a Foreword (Michael Fullan) and Introduction (Blane Despres),…

The current study emphasizes the significance of the positive job experiences that promote individuals' satisfaction on the job and the potential contribution of the transformational leadership style for the shaping of these experiences. Questionnaires were administered to elementary school teachers in five of the six districts comprising the…

The Leadership-Culture Dimensional Screening Scale (LCDSS) measures the relationship between frontier and settlement school cultures; transactional and transformational leadership styles; and the four work roles (supervisor, administrator, manager, and leader) formed by the intersection of the model's culture and leadership dimensions. This…

The intention of this study is to broaden the knowledge base of HRD through the investigation of the relationships between emotional intelligence, and leadership style. This study was conducted using a correlational research design. Two surveys were administered: The MSCEIT (Mayer, Salovey, & Caruso, 2002) and the MLQ5x (Bass & Avolio, 2000) to…

A recent study explored whether the leadership behavior of principals working in inclusive schools tended to be more transformational or transactional, based on 44 teachers' responses on the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire. Principals were judged as exhibiting more transformational than transactional behaviors. Also, teachers were more highly…