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Transformational Leadership Initiatives Driving P-12 School Change: A Look at Leadership Through the Implementation of School and District Change Initiatives
Ted Wardell (Monmouth Regional High School, USA), James Bevere (Carteret School District, USA), Julia McCarty (Montgomery County Public School District, USA), William Smith (Point Pleasant Beach School District, USA),
Tracy Mulvaney (Monmouth University, USA), and Lauren Niesz (Monmouth University, USA)
Copyright: © 2020
|Pages: 30
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-9242-6.ch010
Abstract
In this chapter, educational leaders who are driving school change through transformational leadership initiatives share their stories. The authors range in their respective roles with an elementary school classroom teacher, a math-science departmental supervisor, a high school principal and a district superintendent. Each case study describes the implementation of a transformative leadership project from the main idea and impetus driving each project to the implementation methods and outcomes of each respective endeavor. The first project describes a teacher's addition of cultural-driven morning meetings to an elementary school classroom. The teacher discusses the necessity and how-to of implementing culture-driven morning meetings in the classroom and reflects on the overall impact on her students. A school superintendent leads the reader through his process of increasing rigor at the start of high school through the implementation of Advanced Placement (AP) courses for ninth-grade students. Next, a high school principal discusses an innovative blended learning program in a low socioeconomic district including the special challenges experienced. Finally, a high school math supervisor describes the school-wide implementation of Khan Academy for SAT preparation.