Journal of Educational Administration: Volume 59 Issue 5

Opening the black box of leadership coaching: an examination of coaching behaviors

Susan Kemper Patrick, Laura K. Rogers, Ellen Goldring, Christine M. Neumerski, Viviane Robinson

Leadership coaching is an increasingly popular development tool for school principals. However, specific coaching behaviors are rarely conceptualized or examined in prior…

A systematic review of conceptual models and methodologies in research on school principals in Iran

Rezvan Hosseingholizadeh, Atefeh Sharif, Nafiseh Taghizadeh Kerman

This study aims to present a review of topics, conceptual models and methodologies in research on Iranian school principals over the past four decades.

Knowing your audience: understanding urban superintendents' process of framing equitable change

James Coviello, David E. DeMatthews

The purpose of this study is to understand how superintendents leading large, high-profile and politically complex urban districts make sense of their district–community context…

Building a climate of faculty trust in students through principal support of student psychological needs

Curt Adams, Olajumoke Beulah Adigun

This study was designed to test the relationship between principal support of student psychological needs and faculty trust in students. Without direct empirical evidence to draw…

School leaders' preferences for teacher applicant characteristics in a large urban school district

W. Kyle Ingle, Namok Choi, Marco A. Munoz

We surveyed educational leaders in a large, urban school district in the southeastern United States, examining: (1) the factor structure of scores from a new measure of…

Psychological contract breach and teachers' organizational commitment: mediating roles of job embeddedness and leader-member exchange

Veronica Serwaa Amoah, Francis Annor, Maxwell Asumeng

The study examined the relationship between psychological contract breach and organizational commitment and whether leader-member exchange and job embeddedness mediate this…

A “cracking” school culture: leading resource exploitation during implementation of a national reform

Emanuel Tamir, Sherry Ganon-Shilon

The study explores characteristics of strong school cultures through principals' exploitation of additional resources within implementation of a national reform.