The Instructional Role of Elementary School Principals
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Abstract
To study elementary school principalsʹ understandings and enactments of instructional leadership, we collected data through individual interviews, focus‐ group discussions, and in‐school observations. Three categories captured principalsʹ conceptualizations of instructional leadership: curriculum expertise, formal delivery of professional development, and informal culture building. Their enactment of instructional leadership was influenced by three dimensions: their personal style, degree of coherence in agendas and initiatives, and availability of enabling structures. We anticipated the influence of personal style, but not the impact of coherence and structure, which introduces a new dimension to the literature on contextual influences impinging on individual practice Keywords: school improvement, educational leadership, professional development, school culture Pour étudier la conception et la mise en œuvre du leadership pédagogique chez des directeurs et directrices d’école, les auteures ont colligé des données au moyen d’entrevues individuelles, de discussions en groupe et d’observations sur place. La conception du leadership pédagogique des directeurs et directrices d’école a été analysée à l’aide de trois catégories : expertise en matière de programmes scolaires, prestation de services de perfectionnement professionnel et édification d’une culture informelle. La mise en œuvre du leadership pédagogique a été étudiée pour sa part à l’aide de trois volets : style personnel, degré de cohérence dans les calendriers et les initiatives et mise en place de structures d’incitation. Les auteures avaient prévu l’influence du style personnel, mais non l’impact de la cohérence et des structures, ce qui introduit une nouvelle dimension dans la littérature au sujet des influences contextuelles sur la pratique de chacun. Mots clés : amélioration scolaire, leadership en éducation, perfectionnement professionnel, culture de l’école.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.009 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".