Strengthening Educational Leadership Preparation and Development
A special issue of Education Sciences (ISSN 2227-7102).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 June 2024 | Viewed by 808
Special Issue Editors
Interests: educational leadership preparation, development and coaching; prepare and develop educational leaders; design and testing (cluster randomized trial; randomized controlled trial) of leadership learning designs; leadership for school improvement; activist and equity-oriented school leadership; cultivate school leaders capacities for improving schools/students
Interests: leadership preparation programs; improvement science; the intersection of science education with policy and leadership
Interests: school and district leadership practices; leadership preparation practice and policy; educator well-being, planning and implementing equity-focused continuous school improvement; and university-district partnerships for preparation and improvement
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The last several decades have seen increased attention directed toward the exploration of effective educational leader preparation and development. Given that the development of school leaders is now recognized as “likely the most efficient way to affect student achievement” (Grissom et al., 2021, p. 40), there is an urgent need for more sustained and expansive studies to better inform the general preparation of program improvement and leader learning designs.
We are therefore excited to announce a forthcoming Special Issue of Educational Sciences that will take up this challenge. This Special Issue will focus on the preparation and development of educational leaders and will seek to address some of the key gaps in the existing knowledge base in the field by sharing work that
- Thoroughly elaborates redesigned educational leader preparation/development program content, approaches, and learning experiences that have been demonstrated to have an impact on principal practice and/or schooling outcomes;
- Considers the translation of leadership standards into program content, assessments, or learning experiences that have been demonstrated to have an impact on principals’ standards-aligned practices;
- Examines features of preparation that have been associated with exemplary forms of preparation in order to understand how these features might vary across an assortment of exemplary preparation programs;
- Examines processes of continuous program improvement and/or the use of data and data systems to inform ongoing improvement;
- Rigorously tests educational leader learning designs, particularly multi-element learning designs, that tether leadership coaching/mentoring to more traditional forms of professional leader development;
- Examines enhancements to educational leader preparation/development for equity-oriented aims;
- Longitudinally examines the development of leader beliefs, attitudes, identities, and practices over time;
- Examines leadership pipelines or aspects of such pipelines within the context of school districts and/or district/university partnerships.
Tentative Timeline:
December and January: The call for manuscripts and direct solicitation from a key group of principal preparation experts in the US and abroad.
February to early June: Work on manuscripts.
July: External reviews (the final selection of manuscripts for inclusion and a cycle of feedback for revision).
August: Final revisions to the manuscripts made by the authors.
September 1: Final revised manuscripts submitted.
Prof. Dr. Shelby Cosner
Dr. Kathleen M. W. Cunningham
Dr. Erin Anderson
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- leadership preparation
- principal preparation
- leader development
- leadership coaching
- leadership standards
- continuous preparation
- program improvement
Planned Papers
The below list represents only planned manuscripts. Some of these manuscripts have not been received by the Editorial Office yet. Papers submitted to MDPI journals are subject to peer-review.
Title: School Leader Preparation: Exploring the Relationship between Programs and Leader Data Use
Author: Meyers
Highlights: Programs do not appear to prioritize data use despite standards and regulations.
Faculty appear to have limited expertise, seldom making data use a central focus of programming or classes.
There is widespread reliance on mentors and internships to show students how to facilitate data use despite little knowledge about mentors’ own data knowledge and facilitation capacities.
