scholarly journals An investigation into the perceptions held by K12 Muslim female Islamic school teachers in the United States of school leadership practices and their effects on school climate and school efficacy

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sofia Tanweer Hussain
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
School Climate ◽  
School Leadership ◽  
Leadership Practices ◽  
The United States ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Islamic School ◽  
School Efficacy ◽  
School Leadership Practices

scholarly journals The Influence of Transformational School Leadership on Teacher Efficacy in Malaysian Secondary School Teachers

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teh Pei Ling ◽  
Zaidatol Akmaliah Lope Pihie ◽  
Soaib Asimirin ◽  
Foo Say Fooi
Keyword(s):  
Transformational Leadership ◽  
Teacher Efficacy ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
School Leadership ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Leadership Practices ◽  
Secondary School Teachers ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
School Leadership Practices ◽  
The Relationship

This study provides an insight of the relationship between principals’ transformational school leadership practices and teacher efficacy among Malaysian secondary school teachers. Data was gathered from teachers of secondary schools in the central region of Peninsular Malaysia. The self-administered questionnaires, totalling 160 copies were distributed to the respondents. Valid samples stood at 137 teachers, resulting in a response rate of 85.6 percent. The data was analysed using descriptive, correlation and multiple regression analyses to evaluate the relationship between transformational leadership practices and teacher efficacy. The analysis revealed a significant relationship between the dimensions in transformational school leadership and teacher efficacy. The findings concur with the studies done by Leithwood (1994) that there is a significant relationship between the dimensions of transformational school leadership practices and teacher efficacy. These findings are also in line with past research (Kristine & Hipp, 1997; Peagler, 2004; Ross, J. A, Gray, 2006) that the said transformational leadership contributes toward teachers’ self-efficacy. Therefore, this study strengthens the findings by engaging in similar relationship.

scholarly journals Ethical Leadership Practices and Trust Among Public School Leaders in Malaysia

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 174
Author(s):  
Sharmini Siva Vikaraman ◽  
Azlin Norhaini Mansor ◽  
Mohamed Yusoff Mohd Nor ◽  
Bity Salwana Alias ◽  
Vasanthan Gurusamy
Keyword(s):  
Public School ◽  
School Leadership ◽  
Leadership Style ◽  
Ethical Leadership ◽  
Leadership Practices ◽  
School Leaders ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
School Leadership Practices ◽  
Trust In Leader

Abstract: Integrating values in managing a school is crucial to balance the role of school leaders as leaders and managers under one roof. This study highlights the practice of ethical leadership (branch of value-based leadership) based on seven dimensions. Using a mixed method (QUAN-qual) approach, this study i) identifies the level of principal’s ethical leadership practices and trust in leader as perceived by primary and secondary school teachers of Malaysia, ii) explores the relationship between both variables and classifies accordingly the subconstructs of ethical leadership practices that significantly contribute to developing trust in their leaders, iii) ascertain the understanding and practices of ethical leadership style among the principals as perceived by the principals themselves. The quantitative data were collected via Ethical Leadership at Workplace (ELW) and Trust in Leader (TL) questionnaire. A total of 438 public school teachers nationwide responded to the questionnaire. Data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistical method. The findings show that principals throughout the country practiced high ethical leadership. The level of teacher's trust in principals was also high. The inference analysis found very strong significant relationship between ethical leadership and teachers' trust on their principals. A semi-structured interview with three school principals was conducted to collect the qualitative data revealed that the Malaysian principals lacked the understanding of ethical leadership style, nevertheless practiced several dimensions of ethical leadership in their school administration. The study suggests ethical leadership to be integrated into current school leadership practices to further understand its impact. Keywords: Ethical leadership, School Leadership, Trust in Leader, Value-based Leadership

School leadership practice across international policy contexts: Organizational roles and distributed leadership in Denmark and the United States

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 324-352
Author(s):  
Marsha E Modeste ◽  
Søren Buhl Hornskov ◽  
Helle Bjerg ◽  
Carolyn J Kelley
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
School Leadership ◽  
Distributed Leadership ◽  
Leadership Practices ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Daily Practice ◽  
The United States ◽  
Leadership Practice ◽  
Multilevel Confirmatory Factor Analysis ◽  
The Us

This comparative analysis applies a distributed leadership framework to data from teachers and leaders taking the Comprehensive Assessment of Leadership for Learning (CALL). Because the policies educators in Denmark and the United States respond to in their daily practice are related through the transnational policy borrowing process, we are better able to understand how these policies impact educators in their respective countries by comparing their leadership practice through a shared lens: the CALL framework. In this exploratory analysis, we take a comparative perspective by asking: How does distributed leadership practice compare in the US and the Danish contexts of schooling? And: How do views on leadership practice vary according to professional roles in specific national and local (school) contexts? Our conceptual framework has three components: neoinstitutional theory, translation theory, and distributed leadership. We use multilevel confirmatory factor analysis and t-tests with SY2015–2016 CALL data to compare and contrast the pattern of leadership practices teachers and school leaders take-up in Danish and US schools. We found that the leadership practices aligned to a school-wide focus on learning are closely associated with the work of monitoring teaching and learning and building nested learning communities, particularly in the US context of schooling.

Does School Climate Mean the Same Thing in the United States as in Mexico? A Focus on Measurement Invariance

2017 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathan D. Shukla ◽  
Tracy E. Waasdorp ◽  
Sarah Lindstrom Johnson ◽  
Mercedes Gabriela Orozco Solis ◽  
Amanda J. Nguyen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
School Climate ◽  
Measurement Invariance ◽  
School Environment ◽  
Climate Model ◽  
The United States ◽  
School Students ◽  
Scale Scores ◽  
Partial Invariance ◽  
The U.S

School climate is an important construct for guiding violence prevention efforts in U.S. schools, but there has been less consideration of this concept in its neighboring country Mexico, which has a higher prevalence of violence. The U.S. Department of Education outlined a three-domain conceptualization of school climate (i.e., safe and supportive schools model) that includes engagement, safety, and the school environment. To examine the applicability of this school climate model in Mexico, the present study tested its measurement invariance across middle school students in the United States ( n = 15,099) and Mexico ( n = 2,211). Findings supported full invariance for engagement and modified-safety scales indicating that factor loadings and intercepts contributed almost equally to factor means, and scale scores were comparable across groups. Partial invariance was found for the environment scales. Results of a multigroup confirmatory factor analysis (MGCFA) consisting of all 13 school climate scales indicated significantly positive associations among all scales in the U.S. sample and among most scales in the Mexico sample. Implications of these findings are discussed.

Pension Enhancements and the Retention of Public Employees

ILR Review ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 70 (2) ◽  
pp. 519-551 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cory Koedel ◽  
P. Brett Xiang
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Employee Retention ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
The United States ◽  
Pension Plans ◽  
Public Employees ◽  
Public School Teachers ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Public Pension Plans

The authors use data from workers in the largest public-sector occupation in the United States—teaching—to examine the effect of pension enhancements on employee retention. Specifically, they study a 1999 enhancement to the benefit formula for public school teachers in St. Louis, Missouri, that resulted in an immediate and dramatic increase in their incentives to remain in covered employment. To identify the effect of the enhancement on teacher retention, the analysis leverages the fact that the strength of the incentive increase varied across the workforce depending on how far teachers were from retirement eligibility when it was enacted. The results indicate that the St. Louis enhancement—which was structurally similar to enhancements that were enacted in other public pension plans across the United States in the late 1990s and early 2000s—was not a cost-effective way to increase employee retention.

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