Dissertation
The Role of Small School Superintendents as Instructional Leaders
Doctor of Education (EdD), Washington State University
01/2011
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/3509
Abstract
A learning leader in a school district is the agent of change who can influence improvement in instruction or assessment delivery by the classroom teacher. A phenomenological approach was utilized in this qualitative study of the superintendent's role and associated activities performed in a small school district. Five school district employees in each of three districts were interviewed to understand their perceptions of the superintendent's roles and duties as a learning leader. Interview data, field notes and memos were coded to describe categories and framework areas common across the interview responses of the fifteen participants. Four major framework areas identified from the literature and refined during a pilot study provided structure for the analysis: (a) superintendent (principal) as learning leader, (b) teacher as learning leader, (c) outside agency as learning leader, and (d) student learning improvement--general (unidentified leader).
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- Title
- The Role of Small School Superintendents as Instructional Leaders
- Creators
- William Jewell Wadlington
- Contributors
- Michele Acker-Hocevar (Advisor)Gail C Furman (Committee Member)Gene C Sharratt (Committee Member)Paul E Pitre (Committee Member)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Educational Leadership, Sport Studies, and Educational/Counseling Psychology, Department of
- Theses and Dissertations
- Doctor of Education (EdD), Washington State University
- Number of pages
- 119
- Identifiers
- 99900581456601842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Dissertation