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Research:
-Leadership contextual action steps
-Application of leadership action steps in a school community
-Population/demographic target
Conduct a Study:
-Collect qualitative data from teachers/principals/students
-Collect quantitative data from standardized scores
Publish:
-Dissertation/Research Journal

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Teacher Development – any action step provided by leader in the form of professional development used to support staff in leadership growth, motivation or content improvement

Student Achievement - the measure of amount of academic content learned by a student over a determined amount of time in comparison to learning goal or instructional standard

Distributed leadership – a conceptual approach in which the leadership takes place among the people within the context of the organization or in this case, the school community

Transformational leadership – a style of leadership in which the leader works to create vision to guide change through inspiration in tandem with committed group members

Transactional leadership – a style of leadership in which leaders promote compliance through rewards and punishments

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A review of the literature exposed a wide knowledge base in leadership styles and examples of practices categorized as "styles" in educational settings.  In addition, the review found significant findings in student achievement changes relationships with positive leadership style.  However, a literature gap exists in specific or contextual leadership action steps taken to achieve targeted goals for affect in student achievement.

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1. How do context specific actions by school leaders affect student academic success/proficiency?
2. How does leadership implementation of teacher development affect student success?
3. How can leadership affect student learning environment and school community?

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Leadership behavior and action steps tend to become lost in the vast array of research categorized under leadership style.  The volumes of work become so dense that there is little clear cut evidence for specific effective action steps for classroom use to affect student achievement.  As a result, leaders may be working the wrong end of the spectrum for change, producing frustration and loss of trust in the process.  The balanced leader must not only be motivational but effective in practice.  Therefore, more concise guides must be created to nurture the evolution of the effective leader for student achievement.

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The need to address the rapidly changing school populations, including the generational needs of teachers, require a contextual leadership evolution to occur.   To continue with current traditions will only increase this gap between what is occurring and what is found in the vast amount of leadership research toward best practices.  Effective leadership behavior possesses the ability to impact the students, teachers and community; changing the overall capacity for learning in K-12 schools and success of all participants.

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The purpose of this research is to examine the extent to which leadership action and behavior affects student achievement, at the K-12 level, either through direct strategy or via teacher-mediated or perceived leadership relationships within the school community.

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Leadership behavior is a key factor in the outcome of any organization.  Within a school organization, the administrative leadership team is faced with the reality that the action steps chosen affect all members of the community, especially the students.  Whether through direct action or distributed through instructional staff, the need for effective leadership behavior is imperative.  This is especially important with changing school populations, evolving community climates, and emerging teacher generation gaps.  Vast resources and volumes of work in leadership theory and style often cloud the field for strategic leadership practice and provide little assistance for implementation in practice.  In an attempt to provide a framework to examine effective leadership, this poster will segregate leadership action steps into three streams of work.  These streams will include: teacher/staff development, context specific curriculum and direct leadership behavior on school community.  This research will aim to illustrate specific and contextual leadership action steps and demonstrate the effect on K-12 student achievement as a result.

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Welcome to my ePoster!
Carrie Garippa
Drexel University
cg837@drexel.edu
EDUC 815
Dr. Kristen Betts
Winter, 2017

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Uploaded by Carrie Garippa on 2017-03-01.