Journal article
Leadership for Family and Community Engagement: A Qualitative Policy Analysis of State Principal Evaluation Processes
Educational administration quarterly, v 58(1)
01 Feb 2022
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Abstract
Purpose: The primary purpose of this policy analysis is to examine how states changed their principal performance evaluation systems since the passage of Every Student Succeeds Act in 2015. In particular, we focus on whether states have capitalized on the flexible policy landscape to make space for meaningful family and community engagement (FCE) in assessing principals' effectiveness. Research Methods: This study uses document analysis to review the structure of principal evaluation systems in all 50 states and selects 17 revised systems for a deeper review of their approach to leadership for partnering with families and communities. Findings: A plurality of states have not substantively revised their evaluation systems. Several of the revised systems narrowly focused on instructional leadership and student achievement measures and were thus unsupportive of meaningful FCE and federal policy aims for schools to work in partnership with family and community stakeholders. The principal evaluation systems most supportive of authentic family and community engagement allowed for flexible goal setting and explicitly encouraged the use of stakeholder feedback as evidence of principals' effectiveness. Implications for Research and Policy: The authors discuss the implications of the results in terms of 1.) expanding definitions of educational leadership to include tenets of authentic FCE, 2.) creating coherent yet compendious systems for school improvement, and 3.) planning for and implementing a developmental approach to the evaluation of school leaders.
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- Title
- Leadership for Family and Community Engagement: A Qualitative Policy Analysis of State Principal Evaluation Processes
- Creators
- Linda Mayger - College of New JerseyKathleen Provinzano - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Educational administration quarterly, v 58(1)
- Publisher
- Sage
- Number of pages
- 37
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- School of Education
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000717959300001
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85118944137
- Other Identifier
- 991019169534804721
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- Education & Educational Research