Her research interests include planning for and leading school improvement,
effective leadership practices in schools and districts, and policy and practices for high - quality principal preparation.
Here, similar to the procedure we followed in Section 1.4, we approach the identification
of effective leadership practices using grounded theory to explore the perceptions of teachers and the actions of principals around instructional improvement.
Indeed, we found that graduates of these innovative programs report higher quality program practices, feel better prepared, feel better about the principalship as a job and a vocation, and enact
more effective leadership practices than principals with more conventional preparation.
TISS is a comprehensive support model designed to sustain the successful turnaround of chronically low - performing New York City (NYC) public schools through the cultivation
of effective leadership practice, focused on the development of high - functioning teams of school leaders.
In the context of prevailing accountability policies, claims about successful or
effective leadership practices are considered most defensible when they are justified by quantitative evidence linking the practices to standardized measures of student achievement.
Facilitating learning experiences on
effective leadership practices and hands - on technology use