Pragmatic leadership development in Canada: investigating a mentoring approach
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This study is part of the International Study of Principal Preparation project and reports on a Canadian Catholic Board’s mentoring programme for novice school principals. This programme aims to produce effective managers and provide formal collegial support. A pragmatic, mixed‐method approach involving interviews with participants along with an analysis of programme documentation is employed. Findings indicate the programme is successful in providing useful information and guidance to novices. Mentors refresh their enthusiasm for their own administrative role and are more conscious of organisational processes as a result of mentoring. Outcomes include increased comfort of mentees in their complex role. There are socialisation and enculturation outcomes for the organisation. Selection as a mentor represents a valuing of expertise and effectiveness. Potential challenges of the programme are time, uncomfortable pairings, power relationships, and the overt managerial focus. Recommendations to enhance this successful programme are presented.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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 it