This qualitative study considered how adventure education leaders can utilize the natural outdoor environment combined with appropriate leadership techniques to catalyze spiritual experiences among participants. Considerations included the impact of outdoor adventure best practices as well as the effects of situational leadership behaviors,…

The factors of identities, positionalities, and ideologies are critical on how leaders lead, guide, engage, and communicate with their constituencies to create equitable learning experiences for students. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to gain understanding of the experiences of three Asian American community college presidents'…

The credibility of higher education institutions hinges upon certain dynamic factors among which leadership has widely been considered and validated as the most critical in all respects. Similarly, leadership styles have been measured as the potential and significant predictor for various organizational outcomes. Among all, transformational and…

This article presents a national and international youth leadership program utilizing personal assessments as part of the pedagogy. Using the tenets of experiential learning, the learner's self-awareness heightens their experience as individuals make personal connections with the topic for deeper understanding. In addition to discussing the…

Organizations develop cultures which are impacted by leaders, and within the high school setting, coaches are leaders. Therefore, coaches directly impact school culture through leadership and have the unique opportunity to lead during a formative time in athletes' lives. Because leadership has been proven as influential in athletics, it should be…

Purpose: Whilst professional learning communities (PLCs) have been widely explored at the school level, they have received less attention at the departmental level. The study takes the variance between departments and the role of departmental teacher leaders into consideration, and the relationships amongst departmental-level PLC dimensions, two…

This study determined the significance and relationship of the school heads' and teachers' initiatives on Education 4.0 and the school and classroom climate in all schools comprising EDDIS II during the School Year 2023-2024. With explanatory sequential mixed methods as research design and 52 school heads and 384 teachers as respondents of the…

Conflict is an integral part of school management and its existence must not be shunned as it stimulates creative and innovative ways of thinking which enhance organisational growth and performance. The purpose of the study reported on here was to investigate how education managers executed Thomas and Kilmann's model in managing and resolving…

Leadership is crucial in an organisation's long-term viability and incredibly motivating teachers. Theoretical and conceptual searches for leadership styles that work in any situation, such as teachers' teaching motivation and with any set of followers, have never been more abundant in the field of leadership research. However, some findings…

This article outlines an active learning exercise that gives students the opportunity to learn and apply the behaviors of transformational leadership theory. Students watch a brief, prerecorded "before" video depicting transactional manager--employee interactions. Students then revise the script so that the manager exhibits the four I's…

Fostering equity by offering the best education possible to all students is one of the main goals of inclusive schooling. One instrument to implement individualised education is individualised education planning (IEP). IEP requires cooperation between special and regular teachers. From research on school leadership it is known that leadership…

As information technology grows in importance and creates industries and disruptions in the growing digital world (Hickman & Akdere, 2018), the practical importance of understanding the impact of leadership development coaching for leaders within information technology becomes critical. As leadership coaching and transformational leadership…

The current state of education elicits a quest to prepare students for future jobs and remains an immediate priority and challenge for educators across the nation (Weddle, 2020). Unfortunately, students are leaving high school lacking the competencies needed for future careers. As a result, schools are making students less prepared to succeed than…

This research analyzed the effects of transformational leadership and self-efficacy on elementary school teachers' Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB). The research method was the quantitative method with a survey approach. The research sample consisted of 302 teachers from 40 elementary schools. The data collection technique for this…

This essay is in response to the need for schools to move from crisis to adaptation. The essay is informed by the question: how might school leaders use conversation to effectively engage adaptation? Adaptation is about transforming systems. We find that with adaptation as the aim, Transformative Leadership Conversation can be used to guide…