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The relationship between accountability mandates, school leadership, and school improvement: exploring the impact of the No Child Left Behind Act on one school's efforts to bring about and sustain reform
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
the state Grade Level Expectations (GLEs) were a positive outcome of NCLB legislation as the GLEs provided instructional and curricular focus. The principal appeared to be a stronger influence on school improvement efforts than NCLB mandates. Support from...
Building professional learning community in a rural school district : an evaluative inquiry
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
This inquiry explored the implementation of the professional learning communities (PLC) model using a utilization-focused (Patton, 1997) inquiry approach in order to provide feedback to enhance the development of the PLC ...