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Item Analysis of the Distributed Leadership Model in Public Education: A Mixed Methods Study(2011-05) Molina, Ricardo; Klinker, JoAnn F.; Hartmeister, Fred; Price, Margaret A.This research analyzed the Distributed Leadership Model (DLM) application in four public schools. The research problem links up to three research questions. The premise of the research lies on the assumption that the DLM when applied in concert with other leadership may provide educational leaders and researchers with pathways for enhancing leadership problem solving and decision making, and student performance. The DLM from MIT contains four interrelated competencies, three lenses, and a component for individual generated change. This research analyzed the DLM’s application to principals, assistant principals, and teacher leaders that coalesce into distributed leadership praxes. Via a mixed methods and the embedded design, the quantitative data supported the qualitative data. The findings revealed that the DLM potentially is a conceptual tool to assess a school’s propensity for distributed leadership. Additionally, a possible benefit of the DLM is enhancing the leadership capacity of public school leaders.Item Democracy and values in public schools: A case study of founding members of the Visioning Institute of Texas(2010-12) Hindman, Janet L.; Klinker, JoAnn F.; McMillan, Sally; Valle, FernandoLittle empirical evidence existed that measured how democracy and democratic values were instilled in American schools. The problem of this qualitative collective case study was to investigate in what ways the efficacy and praxis of the superintendents of independent public school districts as founding members of the Public Education Visioning Institute of Texas had been influenced by their participation, how their vision for public education for their school districts and for Texas had changed through creative and innovative leadership, and how educational leadership interacted as either more of a science or as an art. Through qualitative methodology, this critical, narrative, and interpretive case study design explored what values were promoted by the Public Education Visioning Institute of Texas and if/how the superintendents as school leaders were implementing these values within their schools. Data was gathered through the use of qualitative tools of data collection, analysis, and management that included a questionnaire, interviews, observations, field notes, archival data documents, and the pilot study. This case study attempts to move from the public to the private (Denzin, 2001) through narrative and interpretive story to discover if the participants in the Public Education Visioning Institute of Texas had experienced epiphanies in regard to democracy and democratic values. Study findings indicated a transcendent epiphany in unity of values, vision, and passion for change among the superintendents through their leadership and vision and a constancy of purpose to improve public schools not only for their own students, but also for all children, and uncovered resources that informed their leadership practice. Findings confirm the need for further development of the Visioning Institute as a moral imperative to sustain democracy and democratic schools. To know who we are and where we are going in public education, a requisite need arises to conduct additional research in educational leadership as both science and as art.Item Premont's path : the story of a Texas school district overcoming a death sentence(2012-12) Grobe, Emily Rose; Dahlby, Tracy; Anderson, RonaldPremont ISD, in Premont, Texas, faced years of academic and financial troubles. In 2011, when the school district was finally on a path to improvement, the state ordered Premont to be closed and absorbed into a nearby district. Yet a new superintendent was determined to save Premont and try to ensure every student under his supervision would receive a quality education close to home. This report maps the decisions made, the state’s response and the community’s reaction to the near demise of its school district.Item Understanding how vouchers impact municipalities in Chile, and how municipalities respond to market pressures(2012-08) Portales Olivares, Jaime Antonio; Holme, Jennifer Jellison; Heilig, Julian V.; Marteleto, Leticia; Reyes, Pedro; Sharpe, EdwinThe main purpose of this dissertation is to examine how Chilean municipalities have been affected by, and have responded to, the threat of competition for students under the Chilean voucher system, and to test whether between-district stratification has been a relevant or irrelevant outcome of such pressures. More specifically, this study analyzes which key municipal factors are associated with local public school enrollment gains, retention or losses under the voucher system. In addition, the purpose is to study the measures undertaken by some municipal public school officials and public school principals at the local level in Santiago de Chile, the Chilean capital city, in order to retain or attract students to their public-municipal schools. Main findings indicate that unfair competition between public and private-voucher sectors largely explains public-municipal enrollment losses and private-voucher enrollment gains experimented both in Santiago and the overall country. On the other hand, unfair competition between public school districts themselves largely explains differences on enrollment and stratification within the public sector. Overall, this dissertation demonstrates that the Chilean voucher system has not improved the educational opportunities of disadvantaged students within the city –and across the country as a whole- as school choice proponents claim vouchers will do.Item What is Digital Librarianship? An Interview with Laura Tadena(Texas Digital Library, 2021-11-29) Coleman, Misha; Gunnells, Ali; Santiago, Chloe