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Assisting Struggling Teachers Effectively
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Yariv, Eliezer; Kass, Efrat – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2019
In this research, we examine strategies school principals have used to assist struggling teachers. In an open-ended questionnaire designed for this study, we asked 219 school principals to describe a successful intervention they held. The results show that principals prefer supportive assistance to organizational changes (such as moving the…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Principals, Teacher Competencies
The Mediating Role of Principals' Transformational Leadership Behaviors in Promoting Teachers' Emotional Wellness at Work: A Study in Israeli Primary Schools
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Berkovich, Izhak; Eyal, Ori – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2017
The present study aims to examine whether principals' emotional intelligence (specifically, their ability to recognize emotions in others) makes them more effective transformational leaders, measured by the reframing of teachers' emotions. The study uses multisource data from principals and their teachers in 69 randomly sampled primary schools.…
Descriptors: Principals, Transformational Leadership, Administrator Behavior, Administrator Role
Emotional Expression at Different Managerial Career Stages: Female Principals in Arab Schools in Israel
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Arar, Khalid – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2017
This paper examines emotional expression experienced by female principals in the Arab school system in Israel over their managerial careers--role-related emotions that they choose to express or repress before others. I employed narrative methodology, interviewing nine female principals from the Arab school system to investigate expression of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Arabs, Females, Women Administrators
I Have a Dream: School Principals as Entrepreneurs
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Yemini, Miri; Addi-Raccah, Audrey; Katarivas, Keren – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2015
Most policymakers and academics agree that entrepreneurship is indispensable to society's development and well-being. Fostering entrepreneurship has become a matter of highest priority in public policy worldwide. Given the growing pressures of decentralization and competitiveness that schools have faced over the last 20 years, the role of school…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Administrator Role, Principals, Foreign Countries
The LEA's Role in a Decentralized School System: The School Principals' View
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Addi-Raccah, Audrey; Gavish, Yakov – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2010
Since the wave of school reform decentralization, schools now maintain a more dynamic and diverse relationship with their environment than they did in the past. School principals' relationships with the local educational authority (LEA) are a prominent example of this change in Israel. LEAs try to gain more pedagogic influence over schools while…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, School Based Management, School Districts, Discriminant Analysis
"I Don't Want to Be a School Head": Women Deputy Heads' Insightful Constructions of Career Advancement and Retention
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Oplatka, Izhar; Tamir, Vered – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2009
In light of feminist scholars who have called for challenging the epistemology of existing theories and concepts in social sciences and recreating an innovative knowledge in which women are the focus, the current study aimed at tracing the career stories of 25 Israeli female deputy heads who explicitly do not aspire to headship. These deputies…
Descriptors: Females, School Administration, Social Sciences, Epistemology