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STRATEGIES EMPLOYED BY SUCCESSFUL URBAN SUPERINTENDENTS RESPONDING TO DEMANDS FOR STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT REFORM
by
Hilda M. Flores
________________________________________________________________________
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC ROSSIER SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF EDUCATION
May 2012
Copyright 2012 Hilda M. Flores
Object Description
| Title | Strategies employed by successful urban superintendents responding to demands for student achievement reform |
| Author | Flores, Hilda M. |
| Author email | hflores@usc.edu;hildamflores@gmail.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Education |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Education (Leadership) |
| School | Rossier School of Education |
| Date defended/completed | 2012-02-21 |
| Date submitted | 2012-03-14 |
| Date approved | 2012-03-15 |
| Restricted until | 2012-03-15 |
| Date published | 2012-03-15 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Castruita, Rudy Max |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Garcia, Pedro Enrique García, Pedro Enrique Crew, Rudolph |
| Abstract | Superintendents engage in reform aimed at increasing student achievement because they are influenced to do so by external and internal forces. The role of the superintendent is successfully managing the organizational change process so that his or her district may achieve the lofty and worthy goals of equity and excellence in student achievement. This effort has proved to be a challenging task for superintendents, and schools continue to falter despite intervention. ❧ This study employed a mixed-methods design to answer four research questions related to superintendents and student achievement reform. Data was collected via a quantitative survey of 85 superintendents and a qualitative interview of five superintendents, and was used to support the four research findings. ❧ First, demands from the community, market pressure and competition, and bureaucratic accountability influence a superintendent’s adoption of student achievement reform. Second, teachers, school-level administrators, the school board, and district-level personnel are important to the reform development process because they bring the professional expertise necessary to designing an effective plan. Third, superintendents support a wide variety of strategies — among them, setting high expectations for student achievement, utilizing student demographic and achievement data to identify student need, providing instructional leadership, fostering collaboration among stakeholders, and facilitating alignment of the district’s and principals’ messages, as well as promoting communication between district and school staff, modeling instructional leadership, and checking professional accountability. Fourth, superintendents use formative assessment, principal evaluation, and monitoring reports for the school board and the community to evaluate and in order to sustain reform aimed at increasing student achievement. |
| Keyword | superintendent; reform; student; achievement; communication; stakeholders; strategies; urban; capacity; planning; district |
| 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-m |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Flores, Hilda M. |
| Physical access | The author retains rights to his/her dissertation, thesis or other graduate work according to U.S. copyright law. Electronic access is being provided by the USC Libraries in agreement with the author, as the original true and official version of the work, but does not grant the reader permission to use the work if the desired use is covered by copyright. It is the author, as rights holder, who must provide use permission if such use is covered by copyright. The original signature page accompanying the original submission of the work to the USC Libraries is retained by the USC Libraries and a copy of it may be obtained by authorized requesters contacting the repository e-mail address given. |
| Repository name | University of Southern California Digital Library |
| Repository address | USC Digital Library, University of Southern California, University Park Campus MC 7002, 106 University Village, Los Angeles, California 90089-7002, USA |
| Repository email | cisadmin@dots.usc.edu |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume6/etd-FloresHild-502.pdf |
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| Title | Page 1 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@dots.usc.edu |
| Full text | STRATEGIES EMPLOYED BY SUCCESSFUL URBAN SUPERINTENDENTS RESPONDING TO DEMANDS FOR STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT REFORM by Hilda M. Flores ________________________________________________________________________ A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC ROSSIER SCHOOL OF EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF EDUCATION May 2012 Copyright 2012 Hilda M. Flores |
