Reward School Leadership: Building a Good-to-Great Cycle of Excellence

• In Event: 52.083 - Roundtable Session 19
  In Roundtable Session: 52.083-1 - Affective Leadership in Schools

Abstract

This qualitative study focused on sustaining excellence and equity in a high performing school through the examination of the improvement in student learning in a designated Reward School. In particular, this study focused on a case of high student growth in a school with relatively high poverty as compared to other Reward Schools in New Hampshire. Further, the study examined (1) the characteristics of the leadership present in the school and (2) the ways in which that leadership has supported the continuous improvement. Collins’ (2001) Good to Great model, as well as the construct of transformational leadership as defined by Burns (1978), form the basis of the theoretical framework for this study.

Author

• Stephen Zadravec, Portsmouth School Department