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BUILDING CAPACITY FOR LEADERSHIP IN URBAN SCHOOLS
by
Pamela Houston
____________________________________________________________
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE ROSSIER SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF EDUCATION
August 2009
Copyright 2009 Pamela Houston
Object Description
| Title | Building capacity for leadership in urban schools |
| Author | Houston, Pamela |
| Author email | phouston@usc.edu; pamhou@verizon.net |
| Degree | Doctor of Education |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Education (Leadership) |
| School | Rossier School of Education |
| Date defended/completed | 2009-04-29 |
| Date submitted | 2009 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2009-07-12 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Reed, Margaret |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Stowe, Kathy Vladovic, Richard |
| Abstract | This was a mixed-methods, pre-intervention, multi-case study of urban school leadership. Two Kindergarten through eighth grade schools in a large urban school district were studied to examine: 1.) factors involved in principals’ ability to create the conditions for social justice; and 2.) how a state-adopted leadership development program, using the National Institute for School Leadership (NISL) curriculum, might strengthen principals’ capacity to influence the practice of their teachers.; Qualitative data were collected from interviews, observations, and existing documents. Additionally, the Vanderbilt Assessment of Leadership in Education (VAL-ED) was used to collect survey data on the principals’ leadership practices.; A major finding of the study was that moral purpose must be accompanied by the active promotion and stewardship of a strong vision of achievement in order to create the conditions for social justice in urban schools. Another key finding, related to the state-adopted leadership training, was that principals’ attitudes and expectations regarding the training evolved over time and was influenced by their peers as well as by specific information pertaining to the course content. A third major finding of this study was that the training facilitators’ job-alike experience in the principalship, strengthened the NISL content and was a critical element in building urban principals’ leadership capacity.; Implications that arose from the study pertained to principals spending quality time setting directions at their schools, the dissemination of information regarding principal training and the benefit of carefully selecting leadership development trainers who have had experience in the principalship. Additionally, while it was not the focus of the study, an implication regarding principals’ response to high-stakes accountability also arose. |
| Keyword | school leadership; social justice; urban principals; urban schools; principals' capacity building; NISL; learning-centered leadership; PIL; VAL-ED |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m2347 |
| Rights | Houston, Pamela |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Houston-3032 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume17/etd-Houston-3032.pdf |
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| Full text | BUILDING CAPACITY FOR LEADERSHIP IN URBAN SCHOOLS by Pamela Houston ____________________________________________________________ A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE ROSSIER SCHOOL OF EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF EDUCATION August 2009 Copyright 2009 Pamela Houston |
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