Poster #12 - The Portfolio in Action: How New Governance Models Influence Leadership for Learning

• In Event: 79.052 - MTCC Poster Session 19
  In Poster Session: 79.052-1 - Division A Section 1 Posters: Leadership in a Modicum of Contexts

Abstract

Advocates of portfolio management models (PMMs) argue that providing more autonomy for school leaders to make decisions about instruction, capacity building, support, and teacher selection or retention will lead to improved school culture and achievement. Despite these theories, little is known about how leaders in a PMM context perceive and utilize their autonomy to make decisions that affect instruction and teacher learning, or how and to what effect this might vary depending upon the different school contexts. This study seeks to fill that gap by exploring how 53 teachers and leaders in eight different Denver case study schools enact leadership for learning and how the differing school and policy contexts shape the ways leaders think about and make decisions.

Authors

• Chris Torres, Michigan State University

• Katrina E. Bulkley, Montclair State University

• Taeyeon Kim, Michigan State University