Knowledge Mobilization on Decision Making for School Improvement: A Peer-to-Peer Network for School Principals

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  In Poster Session: Leadership for School Improvement

Abstract

Principals’ duties have expanded beyond instructional leadership. Roles now include being curriculum leader, supervisor, manager, head of finance, administration, compliance, and legal matters, and so on. These additional responsibilities impact their decision-making in relation to teaching, learning and school improvement in general. How, and on what basis, they make these decisions is crucial both to their development as instructional leaders and to educational reform processes. To contribute to knowledge on principals’ decision making skills, we have created a strategic knowledge mobilization initiative called ‘Peer-to-Peer Network for School Principals (PPNSP). Through a variety of face-to-face and online activities, it collaboratively links together an international group of practicing principals and university-based researchers with related expertise. This paper describes the initiative and outcomes.

Authors

• Stephanie Chitpin, University of Ottawa

• Angus McMurtry, University of Ottawa

• Marielle Simon, University of Ottawa

• Peter P. Grimmett, The University of British Columbia

• Colin W. Evers, University of Hong Kong

• Karen Elizabeth Starr, Deakin University

• Jeff Orr, Saint Francis Xavier University

• Brennan Trainor, Renfrew County Catholic District School Board