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Leading for Educational Equity and Change: A Case Study of Assistant Principals’ Beliefs and Actions
This study about Assistant Principals responds to the call for educational leaders to meet the needs of those student-scholars who are marginalized, disenfranchised and forgotten. Administrators are increasingly responsible ... -
School Administrators’ Perceptions of Self-Efficacy as Educational Equity Leaders: A Mixed-Methods Exploration
(2023-05-02)Public school systems and school-based administrators are facing increasing expectations and accountability regarding educational equity. In their attempts to meet these expectations, school systems are training and providing ... -
The Relationship Between Teachers’ Perceptions of Their Principal’s Authentic Leadership and Their Own Academic Optimism in Title I Elementary Schools
(2022-12-14)Academic optimism (AO) is positively correlated for student achievement and is comprised of three constructs: academic emphasis, collective efficacy, and trust in students and parents. In essence, AO is the permeated belief ... -
The Impact of Compassion Fatigue on Anxiety and Depression Among Veterinary Nurses: A Study on the Moderating Effect of Compassion Satisfaction
Compassion fatigue, as an occupational psychological hazard, has been studied in many populations, yet there is limited evidence of the impact of compassion fatigue on veterinary nurses and how it contributes to anxiety ... -
Doctoral Students' Perceptions of Stress, Stressors, and Coping Strategies
(2022)Executive doctoral programs in organizational leadership are increasing. These programs are organized in such a way that students can take classes on the weekends or evenings without having to leave their jobs. With the ... -
Influence of a Leadership Coach Community: New School Leaders' Self Efficacy Perspectives
(2022-12-12)The role of the school principal continues to increase in complexity and challenge. Administrators are expected to have a significant impact on student achievement and absenteeism in addition to teacher satisfaction and ... -
Principals' Perceptions of School Climate Surveys and How They Influence Their Practice
(2022-05-05)In schools, principals are responsible for many things, but one of the primary responsibilities is to create a positive school environment. School climate has a different meaning to different stakeholders, including school ... -
Federal Funding as a Driver of School Reform through Budgetary Decision Making Among Transformational Leaders in Title I Schools
(2022-04-25)Educational equity has been a long-standing goal among legislators since the passing of the Elementary and Secondary Act of 1965 (McLaughlin, 1975). While initially the focus was examining the disparity in resources available ... -
The Perceptions of Elementary Principals on Promoting Positive Staff Morale
(2022-04-22)Elementary principals influence organizational behavior and school climate through their actions and behaviors. The leader’s style can have a lasting impact on staff morale. Employee morale refers to an employee's sense ... -
Predictors of Turnover Intent in the Executive Branch: A Multiple Logistic Regression Analysis Using Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey Indices
The purpose of this research is to highlight the antecedents of employee turnover, one of the most understudied areas in human resource management. Given the phenomenon of the “great resignation” that is resulting from ... -
Perceptions of Women’s Economic Progress and Empowerment in Guinea
(2022-04-22)This study was designed to measure the perceptions and opinions of women’s progress and economic empowerment in Guinea. Conducted to answer three questions – the perceptions of women regarding barriers to women’s empowerment ... -
Servant Leadership: How Dr. Kathleen Bands Builds Leaders Who Transform Communities
(2021)Dr. Kathleen Bands has impacted scholar-practitioners in transformative ways throughout her tenure as the director of Hood College’s Doctoral Program in Organizational Leadership. She has served leaders to facilitate ... -
An Empirical Investigation Into the Antecedents of the Perceptions of Work-Life Balance of Professional Women
(2022-04-20)The entrance of women into the workforce in large numbers in the 20th century was one of the pivotal moments that changed the traditional family work roles of mom at home and dad in the workplace. Maintaining a balance in ... -
Perceptions and Attitudes of Clinicians at a Private Outpatient Mental Health Clinic on Change in Treatment Approach from Individual to Team-Based Delivery
The need for mental health services in the United States has increased, and the lack of trained mental health clinicians to meet the demand has led to team-based rather than traditional individual treatment. At a private ... -
A Community’s Response to an Equity-Centered, Comprehensive, School Redistricting Proposal
(2022)In 1954, the U. S. Supreme Court outlawed racial segregation in America’s schools. Yet, racial and socio-economic segregation continue in schools and invariably lead to differential academic outcomes for students correlated ... -
The Relationship Between Leadership Style and Employee Perceptions of Organizational Appreciation of Creativity and Innovation
(2022-04-12)This study assessed the relationship between the transactional and transformational leadership style behaviors of federal bank regulators and employee perceptions of organizational appreciation of creativity and innovation. ... -
Mainstream Teachers' Perspectives on Secondary English Learner Engagement in Inclusive Classrooms: Communities of Practice
(2021-12-17)Public school systems across the United States face the challenge of effectively educating high school immigrant students who are learning English. In many states, high school English Learner (EL) students are aging ... -
A Case Study of Specialized Social-Emotional Support Program Design for Promoting Staff Retention
(2021-12-17)The academic, social, and emotional needs of students are rapidly increasing while staff interest in working in special education programs, serving some of the neediest students, is declining. The purpose of this qualitative ... -
Theory of Planned Behavior: Public Employee Intentions to Recycle Correctly
(2021-11-14)Environmental performance refers to the impact business operations have on the natural environment. The more employees perform green behaviors, the greater an organization’s environmental performance becomes, and the less ... -
Culturally Responsive Leadership: Fostering the Environment for Inclusion and Equity
(2021-11-12)This phenomenological study explored the link between principals' level of cultural proficiency and their ability to identify and address institutional barriers. Principal preparation programs spend little time developing ...