Curriculum Leadership: The Administrative Survival Skill in a Test-Driven Culture and a Competitive Educational Marketplace

Implications of Principals' Teacher Performance Appraisal and Decision-Making in Arab Schools in Israel

“…Teacher evaluation has increased greatly in an era of school reforms in recent decades (Arar & Oplatka, 2011;English & Steffy, 2011). Teacher evaluation is defined by Kersten and Israel (2005) as a process that identifies the different actions, dimensions and components required for successful performance of work in educational institutions.…”

“…Parallel to applicability questions, context questions were asked to examine socio-political and cultural issues associated with operating a teacher appraisal system as a management tool with instrumental goals of improving the teaching level and students' achievements, and as a leadership tool by which the principal can express appraisal systems' transformational aspects that convey messages of constant improvement, excellence and the teacher's responsibility (Bailes & Schrepfer-Tarter, 2012;English & Steffy, 2011).…”

Moral Responsibility: The Missing Element in Educational Leadership

“…Without a deeper understanding of leadership, to speak of educational leadership seems futile. In these circumstances, it is not surprising that much of the literature, including that which calls for radical or structural changes, conceives of educational leadership in traditional terms, largely unchanged, despite protestations to the contrary, from the late 19 th and 20 th centuries (English, 2011). We intend to deepen the understanding of leadership in general and educational leadership in particular by an analysis of Chester Barnard's (1938) concept of executive responsibility.…”