School Leaders' Professional Development in Conflict Management: The Effectiveness of Summer Leadership Institute

• In Event: Marriott Roundtable Session 17
  In Roundtable Session: Developing Effective Schools and School Leaders

Abstract

The prevalence of conflict in school organizations highlights the needs for the leadership professional development in conflict management while there is little in the literature about how to prepare and train school leaders for the inevitable conflicts that happens in school organizations. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the Summer Leadership Institute (SLI) in school leaders’ professional growth, with an emphasis on assessing the changes of their perceived conflict management. The findings showed that SLI served to deepen school leaders’ capacities to engage in effective educational leadership, especially the conflict management.

Authors

• Beverly J. Irby, Texas A&M University - College Station

• Fuhui Tong, Texas A&M University - College Station

• Rafael Lara-Alecio, Texas A&M University - College Station

• Lixia Qin, University of Wisconsin System

• Donna M. Druery, Texas A&M University - College Station

• Roya Pashmforoosh, Texas A&M University - College Station

• Zhuo Chen, Texas A&M University - College Station

• Nariman H Eljaouhari, Texas A&M University - College Station

• Laura Cajiao-Wingenbach, Texas A&M University - College Station

• Karen Ford-Jackson, U.S. Department of Education