Effective Educational Leadership Research Articles

Educational Leadership Management Practices: A Perspective to Educational Transformation

The paper investigates the educational leadership management practices as a perspective to educational transformation. The descriptive correlation research design is utilized in the study to quantify and measure the profile of the respondents, contribution of effective style educational leadership management and practices, and educational transformation perspective of the educational management practices of the respondents. Likewise, purposive quota sampling employs in the study to define the criteria for the sample size. The study comprised fifty (50) respondents only. Results show that the contribution of effective style educational leadership management and practices of the respondents involves democratic leaders where they yield with a high morale environment to generate and motivate creative solutions of effective leadership style in school organization, show that instructional leadership involves on planning practice, coordination, evaluation, and teaching improvement learning, show that authoritative leaders ensure that the systems are in order, and quick in the decision process and control the organization, show that coaching leadership involves behavior, attitude, work performance, evaluation, process of the work, and the policies in the school organization, and show that transformational leaderships is an essential element in the organization to be imposed for good, better, and best because all employees in the school organization are determinant for the process. Hence, educational transformation perspective of the educational management practices of the respondents explores career, advocacy, and policy in pursuing equity in education, contributes to the school system in the organization, reveals significant effect on positive and negative effects of the transformational leadership process, maintains school culture and identity for the diverse and challenging condition strength of school organization and setting, and supports the innovation of learning in the school organization and supports advanced flexible learning technology.

Effective educational leadership and school management: The importance of strong leadership and managerial skills

Effective educational leadership and school management: The importance of strong leadership and managerial skills

A Review Article on the Influence of Societal Culture on Effective Practices in Educational Leadership

This study focuses on the impact of culture on effective educational leadership in culturally diverse communities. The findings indicate that school leaders adapt their actions, particularly regarding communication styles, building collaboration and trust, and decision-making structures. The study emphasizes the importance of understanding the impact of culture on effective leadership practices, particularly for educational leaders working in culturally diverse communities. This knowledge is crucial for school leaders and leadership preparation programs.

Designing an Empowerment Model for Developing Professional and Ethical Competencies of Primary School Managers

Objective: The research aims to design an empowerment model for developing professional and ethical competencies in primary school managers. Method: It employs a mixed exploratory (qualitative-quantitative) method, involving selected experts from the education organization for the qualitative part. The sample size was 17, following the saturation principle. The quantitative population included 1500 primary school managers in Tehran, with a sample size of 306 determined using Cochran's formula and random cluster sampling. Data were measured using semi-structured interviews and researcher-made questionnaires. The validity of the questionnaire was confirmed and reliability was calculated using Cronbach's alpha (0.870). Data analysis used Strauss's method for content analysis, the Delphi technique, and structural equation modeling with SPSS22 and AMOS26. Findings: Findings indicated that 75% of primary school managers' professional and ethical competencies relate to empowerment dimensions: Technical, Human, Cognitive, Communicative, Teamwork Skills, Initiative Skills. These can explain and predict competencies comprising Individual Characteristics, Management Skills, Organizational Factors, Entrepreneurial Competence, Business Competence, Leadership, Decision Making, Collaboration. Conclusion: In conclusion, the study successfully designs an empowerment model that significantly contributes to the development of professional and ethical competencies among primary school managers. This model, grounded in comprehensive research and expert insights, demonstrates the vital role of empowerment in enhancing the essential managerial competencies needed for effective educational leadership in primary schools.

The Importance of Effective Educational Leadership: Evidence from Malaysian Higher Education Context

The Importance of Effective Educational Leadership: Evidence from Malaysian Higher Education Context

PRINCIPAL PLANNING MANAGEMENT IN INCREASING TEACHER WORK PRODUCTIVITY

Abstract: Effective educational leadership provides the basis and places goals in an important position to change norms in learning programs. This study aims to describe the planning management of school principals in increasing teacher work productivity at the Karya Bersama Halimbe Junior High School, Aek Natas District, North Labuhanbatu Regency, using a qualitative research approach. Research data collection obtained by triangulation techniques through observation, interviews and documentation study. The results of this study reveal three findings, namely: 1. Programs planned and implemented by the principal at Karya Bersama Private Junior High School in improving teacher creativity are carried out in the form of meetings / meetings or deliberations with other personnel teachers to determine plans to achieve the stated goals. Want. Then, the principal has conducted training, lesson study and participated in competitions from the district level. 2. The principal in terms of improving discipline has planned further activities to increase discipline for every month, semester or year. The existence of a meeting / meeting attended by all teachers at Karya Bersama Private Junior High School as a means of exchanging ideas between the principal and the teacher. Carry out the program that has been determined by giving awards to teachers who deserve it. 3. The planning process carried out by the principal is when holding a meeting with the principal and the teacher to compile a schedule of planning activities that have been determined until the evaluation stage carried out by the principal in developing teacher work productivity at Karya Bersama Private Junior High School. By evaluating the principal, he can see the extent of the progress experienced by teachers who have attended training and so on.

Conflict Management Strategies, A Panacea for Effective Educational Leadership

Humans constitute the organization’s human resources; hence conflict is inevitable in every organisation with people. Conflict is a word with both good and bad connotations. When conflict is poorly managed or handled, a crisis will ensue. Consequently, the purpose of this article was to investigate conflict management in school organisations in Ghana and Nigeria. It determined the causes and sources of organisational disputes. It also explored the many conflict management tactics available to school administrators, including behaviour management, negotiation, and mediation, among others. This paper also emphasised the effects of unmanaged conflict in the educational system. This is an opinion piece, as it argues that educational leaders should share available resources evenly and hold seminars, conferences, and symposia on ways to manage conflict.Originality/value: A novel approach for understanding the brand gamification concept on 6thinking hats approach is presented in the study. This article provides a base for future studies from an empirical angle in this domain that has not been taken up in this particular study. Limitations: This paper used qualitative study and the quantitative study has not been addressed in this article.

"The Review of Leadership in Perspectives of Educational Management"

This article analyses the perspectives of educational management studies and the importance of leadership as an area of study. The article emphasizes the importance of research evaluation as well as future research directions identifying them as a method to view past progress current issues and future recommendations to effective educational leadership and management. The study looked at key influences in this direction such as educational administration and research leadership, lead and administer education as a humane and ethical endeavour rather than a solitary scientific activity; and analytical resources available to the investigation, evaluate different philosophical and analytical methods in accordance with an agreed set of academic steps for scholars policymakers and practitioners; the potential impact of the maturity of a future generation of researchers on the primacy of educational administration, and current situation. The field of education leadership and administration has made remarkable progress. In future work by scholars on this particular topic the analysis performed in this paper will provide practical responses from intellectuals and their organizations as well as policy makers. Policy makers and education professionals key stakeholders in the fields of information leadership and academic management.

Academic Members’ Perceptions of Educational Leadership and Perceived Need for Leadership Capacity Building in Chinese Higher Education Institutions

Universities in China have faced great challenges in the past decade, such as challenges driven by globalization and technological progress. This requires leaders to meet the challenge of change. Little has been written from the perspective of educational leadership in Chinese higher education institutions (HEIs). This study aims to explore academic members’ perceptions of educational leadership and to explore factors contributing to the professional learning and growth of academic members in Chinese HEIs. Through a qualitative study, we explored the perceptions of 12 academic members from eight Chinese universities. The results provide us with a comprehensive conceptualized educational leadership, perceived effective educational leadership, and perceived need for capacity building. The results can be helpful to support sustainable professional development and also for administrators, universities, and policymakers in China in creating the environment and policies that facilitate the implementation of successful educational leadership experiences.

Educational Leadership and the Impact of Societal Culture on Effective Practices

Research into what is effective leadership in different cultures provides guidance for leaders moving from one culture to another (House et al, 2014). There is a paucity of empirical research into how culture impacts effective educational leadership in culturally diverse communities, which provides the direction and focus for this study. The cultural backgrounds of staff can impact what they expect about i) how leaders communicate, ii) what actions help build trust and collaboration and iii) how decisions can or should be made (Hofstede, 1991; Meyer, 2014). This study analyses the extent to which school leaders adapt their behaviours in response to the cultures of their staff. Findings suggest that leaders in schools do adapt their actions, most often using different communication styles but also methods of building collaboration and trust, and decision-making structures. Culture impacts what are effective leadership practices (Dorfman et al, 2012) and educational leaders need to understand these potential impacts if they work in culturally diverse communities. This is important to consider for school leaders and leadership preparation programmes.

Manajemen Pendidikan, Tenaga Kependidikan, Standar Pendidik, dan Mutu Pendidikan

Globalization is a necessity, and its movement continues to grow and almost touches various aspects of human life, including education. However, the function of education as a part of the national character building must be maintained. Likewise, education management at the strategic, managerial, and operational levels determine the quality of education. Three aspects of educational management that are important are the issues of educational leadership, teacher standards, and education personnel which directly influence the quality of education. Predictably, effective educational leadership will support and realize the teacher standards and education personnel, which in turn will also improve the quality of education. This research focused on teachers' management, education personnel, teacher standards, and education quality. A qualitative descriptive approach was chosen as a design for this study.

The role of language adequacy in effective educational leadership

The main purpose of this research was to investigate the verbal characteristics of the philologists as school leaders in secondary educational institutions and to evaluate their effectiveness in verbal communication with teachers. The investigation of the verbal behaviour of philologist principals is considered particularly important as, according to a recent demographic study, scholars rank first in the number of serving principals in secondary educational institutions in Greece. A qualitative methodology with semi-structured interviews and a combination of mixed purposeful sampling strategies were used to achieve the research goal. A total of 45 participants were selected from educational institutions of Athens Secondary Education: 15 principals who are philologists, 15 vice-principals and 15 teachers who are mathematicians. Parallel to that, the strategy of data triangulation from three perspectives: the philologist leader's, the vice-principal's and one mathematician's from the same school institution has been applied. A key factor in effective verbal communication was the principal's personality with their ethical-spiritual characteristics, not their scientific expertise. This research seeks to identify the most efficient way of communication between teachers and principals for the optimisation of the school's means and processes, taking into consideration the difficulties deriving from the teachers' different scientific backgrounds.

The role of language adequacy in effective educational leadership

The role of language adequacy in effective educational leadership

Leading Change in Difficult Times: The Role of Effective Leadership in Confronting Educational Challenges of Coronavirus Pandemic

This paper is based on understanding how effective leadership can be instrumental in confronting (potential) organisational challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic in organisations with specific focus on educational institutions in order to effectively lead change in these uncertain times. As well-known all organisations including educational institutions are currently bedevilled by the COVID-19 (coronavirus) challenges, which constitute obstacle to effective educational leadership. In rising above these challenges and in contrast with the managerially oriented educational management, this paper argues that effective leadership can engender effective change management as well as aid educational institutions to rise above this quandary, which will ultimately lead to better student outcomes and organisational success. The methodology adopted here is based on secondary sources and consequently this paper conceptually makes some contributions to the field of educational management, leadership and change management, which would guide policymakers, academics, institutions and governments in these uncertain times. The present paper concludes by demonstrating how effective leadership aids our understanding of how to effectively confront the evils of the coronavirus pandemic in the educational context.

Principals between exploitation and exploration: Results of a nationwide study on ambidexterity of school leaders

Both organizational and management research suggest that schools and their leaders need to be ambidextrous to secure prosperity and long-term survival in dynamic environments characterized by competition and innovation. In this context, ambidexterity refers to the ability to simultaneously pursue exploitation and exploration and thus to deliver efficiency, control and incremental improvements while embracing flexibility, autonomy and discontinuous innovation. Using a unique, randomized and representative data set of N = 405 principals, we present findings on principals’ exploitation and exploration. The results indicate: (a) that principals engage far more often in exploitative than in explorative activities; (b) that exploitative activities in schools are executed at the expense of explorative activities; and (c) that explorative and ambidextrous activities of principals are positively associated with the (perceived) competition between schools. The study brings a novel perspective to educational research and demonstrates that applying the concept of ambidexterity has the potential to further our understanding of effective educational leadership and management.

The Impact of Effective Educational Leadership on School Students’ Performance in Malaysia

The purpose of this study is to find out the impact of effective educational leadership on school students’ performance in Malaysia. Based on the current study, most of the researchers have used both qualitative and quantitative methods to conduct their research on several topics that related to effective educational leadership and student’s performance. Therefore, in this research, the data were collected using both, qualitative and quantitative methods which was the interview and survey questionnaire. The selected participants for this research, using convenient sampling, were six teachers working for two international schools in Selangor, Malaysia. One teacher who had already involved in school administrative level was selected for the interview. The other five teachers were requested to answer the survey questionnaire. The interview and questionnaire were selected because, the researchers wanted to further understand on the participants’ experience and knowledge on educational leadership and teaching perspective. In addition, it is aimed to provide insights in assisting to develop ideas, solution and hypotheses for future research. These methods were also used to further analyse the issues dealt with one of the effective educational leadership models (i.e. distributed leadership) and students’ performance. The findings indicated that leaders need to build high degree of reciprocal trust to negotiate successfully the fault lines of formal and informal leadership. It is also highlighted that effective leadership (distributed leadership) and quality teachers are two main contributing factors on students’ performance. Lastly, based on the analysis and results, related suggestions were given.

THE EFFECT OF SCHOOL LEADERSHIP EFFECTIVENESS ON TEACHER PERFORMANCE ( A Case Study at SMP Negeri Kota Singkawang)

This survey study aims to understand effective secondary school leadership towards improving teacher performance in the teaching and learning process. There is no doubt that effective school principals are able to promote faster education improvement. On the other hand, good school leadership has a strong impact on school development and student learning outcomes. To understand how the effectiveness of school leadership on teacher performance, survey research has been successfully carried out in Singkawang City Middle School. The results showed that a very successful educational leadership can influence the whole school community especially teachers and students to achieve higher performance in school organizations. This research proves that the principal's strong leadership can not only influence teachers in teaching but also students in learning as a whole. Therefore, similar research can continue to be carried out so that effective educational leadership can influence the people he dreams of with a high commitment to improve work performance such as teachers, school development and surrounding resident

Pemetaan Jenis, Indikator dan Kegunaan Kepemimpinan Pendidikan: Kajian Literatur dari Situs Indonesian Publication Index (IPI)

The site of Indonesian Publication Index (IPI) has become a benchmark and reference research in Indonesia. The purpose of this research is to map educational leadership articles on IPI sites based on types, indicators, and usefulness of educational leadership. This research method used literatur study, where researchers examined 91 scientific articles sourced from the corpus of the IPI database, researchers do the sorting and analysis and then the data communicated through descriptive statistics. The findings of this research are as follows: (1) types of educational leadership research methods include qualitative and quantitative methods, but the types of mixed methods are rarely found; (2) types of publicized educational leadership research are in accordance with existing educational leadership theories, but Indonesia has several characteristics of educational leaders such as boarding school leadership; (3) researchers in Indonesia have used indicators of effective educational leadership in accordance with what researchers use in other countries; and (4) education leadership researchers in Indonesia have provided recommendations for improving educational leadership. The above findings are expected to be discussed in developing educational leadership research in Indonesia.

Beyond turnaround: a synthesis of relevant frameworks for leaders of sustained improvement in previously low-performing schools

ABSTRACTWe understand very little about what is special that leaders do to facilitate improvement that is both transformational and lasting in previously persistently failing schools in the United States. Relatively little is understood about change not just during the initial turnaround stage, but that endures on the larger journey as the school becomes a healthy organisation for adults and students. This lack of understanding is likely due to the lack of data sources because schools struggle to attain turnaround, let alone maintain the improvement and continue to grow. We conducted a literature review of frameworks implicated in leading a sustained school turnaround. This study synthesises existing frameworks relevant to implicated constructs of (1) school turnaround, (2) effective educational leadership, (3) turnaround external to education, and (4) sustained improvement external to education through developing a cohesive set of practices to inform the work of researchers and practitioners. We end by suggesting that this framework be tested and refined through examination of principal data so that it more robustly represents the work that leaders of sustained improvement undertake.

Effective Educational Leadership Training for Improving Student Learning Outcomes

In the required course work of many programs in Educational Leadership, doctoral candidates typically engage in various forms of analysis and synthesis about transformative leadership. Coursework in ethical education; transformational learning; creativity, inquiry, and innovative leadership; quantitative research methods; qualitative research methods, and leading organizational change form the basis of many courses of study. Evidence in the literature overwhelmingly support the position that educational leaders are highly effective, when engaging in both transformational and organizational development practices. Their effectiveness can also benefit student learning outcomes. This paper draws from the main points of all of the afore mentioned to illustrate how the effective educational leadership training can benefit student transformative educational leaders. The paper concludes that investment in educational leadership training is a pathway for large-scale education improvement.