Anything politicians, policy makers, government agencies, school leaders, teachers, educational reformers, experts, are doing, effectively or ineffectively, to improve school performance, teaching effectiveness, or educational results for students.
Published in Chapter:
Rethinking Education Delivery for the 21st Century
Copyright: © 2021
|Pages: 25
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-8964-8.ch005
Abstract
Designing schools as learning centers is more than just about restructuring the physical space of schools. There are many variables that need to be considered when rethinking education delivery for the 21st century. Schools seem to just keep constructing buildings that merely reinforce an obsolete paradigm that will not prepare students for real-world challenges. The focus of this chapter asks the question: What does re-thinking education mean at the school leadership level? Numerous stakeholders, from policymakers to providers to end users affect the structure, content, and delivery of K-12education systems. A case study exploring the effect of district and school leadership styles on teaching and learning prompted by the question, Were the principals in High Scoring Schools (HSS) engaged in different instructional leadership practices than those in the Low Scoring Schools (LSS)? A significant feature of this study is the sizeable database that incorporated nine states, 43 school districts, and 180 elementary, middle, and secondary schools.