Values-Centered Leadership: Insights from Schools that Underperform

Task-based Language Teaching in L2 English Writing Classrooms: Insights from Chinese Senior Secondary Schools

There is little research on the task-based teaching approach in senior secondary L2 English writing classrooms. This study carried out an exploratory sequential mixed methods study to explore the suitability and adaptations of task-based language teaching in the domain of secondary schools in small cities. First, the researcher surveyed six EFL senior secondary teachers of different teaching ex...

Spiritually-Based Leadership in Tehran’s Elementary Schools

To explore the extent to which spiritually-based leadership is implemented in Iranian school management system, a cluster sample of 375 elementary school teachers, along with a group of 10 experts, was selected and given a specially constructed questionnaire with an acceptable validity, as judged by  experts, and an internal consistency of 0.85. Data analyses yielded the following: school princ...

Rethinking middle leadership roles in secondary schools

Leadership to Address Sexual Education in Schools

This paper will take the strategies of leadership proposed by Bennis and Nanus (1985) in application to sexual education in schools. The severity and significance of the sexual health of youth will be shown, with an emphasis on contributing risk behaviors and ideologies. An overview of the current state of teenage pregnancy and sexual disease incidence will be included. Next, the factors that c...

Leadership in improving schools: a qualitative perspective

This paper presents findings from the first year of school-based case studies investigating the ‘Impact of School Leadership on Pupil Outcomes’. The case study component of this study involved twenty schools (ten primary and ten secondary), all of which were selected on the basis of their sustained improvement (over at least three consecutive years) in terms of pupil outcomes. Interviews were c...