Administrators And School Culture

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Examines effective strategies used by school administrators in shaping the school culture. Contends that the school administrator or principal is the key person in terms of leadership, school reform, creating a secure school environment, involving stakeholders and implementing visionary leadership. Suggests that transformational principals and administrators are best for multicultural learning communiities.

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"Administrators and School Culture

In education, at the level of the individual school, it is the school administrator or principal who is key in terms of leadership, school reform, creating and maintaining a secure school environment, involving stakeholders of all kinds in the school, and implementing visionary leadership. The purpose of this brief report is to examine effective strategies used by school administrators in shaping the school culture. It will be argued, as Jason (2000) has suggested, that transformational principals and administrators are needed to increase the efficacy of instruction, socialization, and other interaction processes in increasingly multicultural learning communities.

H.S. Williams (2000) contends that the literature on school effectiveness repeatedly refers to the need for strong principal-center ..."

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