OBJECTIVE Parents, schools and the broader community influence children's socialisation to alcohol. In Australia, the UK and the USA, there have been media reports of adults consuming alcohol at family-focused school events such as fairs and graduations. The aim of this qualitative study was to describe school principals' experiences of adults' use of alcohol at school events, when children are...

PURPOSE New teacher evaluation systems have expanded the role of principals as instructional leaders, but little is known about principals' ability to promote teacher development through the evaluation process. We conducted a case study of principals' perspectives on evaluation and their experiences implementing observation and feedback cycles to better understand whether principals feel as tho...

SPKI/SDSI is a framework that combines a simple public-key infrastructure and a simple distributed security infrastructure with a means of defining local name spaces. It allows principals, which can be a person or an organization, to locally create groups of principals and delegate rights to other principals or groups of principals by issuing certificates. To prove authorizations, principals ne...

Principals' technology leadership is strongly correlated with teachers’ integration of educational technology, and technology leadership is necessary for effective utilization of technology in schooling. The article describes a study that empirically investigated teachers’ perceptions of elementary schools principals’ technology leadership practice in seven cities in Taiwan for understanding th...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationships among principals’ technological leadership, teachers’ technological literacy, and teaching effectiveness. The survey target population consists of 1,000 teachers randomly selected from Taiwanese elementary schools. The survey asked teachers to measure the effectiveness of principals’ technological leadership, teachers’ technological ...

This paper attempts to develop an extended concept the competence of school principals by using concept mapping, based on issues are the competence concept of school principals have an impact on two conditions, namely: (1) to develop the concept can complement and support each other; and (2) to develop the concept of possible contradict, giving rise to different interpretations. Therefore, this...

New teacher evaluation systems have expanded the role of principals as instructional leaders. We study principals’ perspectives on evaluation and their experiences implementing observation and feedback cycles. Based on interviews with a stratified random sample of 24 principals in an urban district, we find that most principals viewed professional growth as the primary purpose of evaluation. Ho...

This three-year longitudinal study reports on a community of principals that supports scaling of technology-enhanced science. Twenty-one principals participated; seven participated in the community and fourteen provided a comparison group. Data include community of principal meetings, interviews and curriculum implementation records. Results describe: (a) shifts in principals’ understanding of ...