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Exploring principal coaching through the perception of principal coaches

Pamela L. Ford-2014-01-01-NC Digital Online Collection of Knowledge and Scholarship (The University of North Carolina at Greensboro)

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The purpose of this research is to explore principal coaching through the lives of principal coaches as they provide support to novice and experienced principals. Principals are dealing with more complex problems than merely being the manager of schools. As we begin to transition our schools with higher demands, the framework that was in place is no longer viable. Student achievement and student growth are the two areas schools must focus on and succeed. The need to support school leaders is more relevant now than ever before. As a result, some type of support is needed to guide principals who need additional assistance and resources. The lived experiences in which the participants shared will give the reader a better understanding of how the principal coaches embrace this concept that has taken its features and objectives from executive coaching that is used in the business sector. The research tradition that I selected is the qualitative study. Understanding that a particular group o

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The purpose of this research is to explore principal coaching through the lives of principal coaches as they provide support to novice and experienced principals. Principals are dealing with more complex problems than merely being the manager of schools. As we begin to transition our schools with higher demands, the framework that was in place is no longer viable. Student achievement and student growth are the two areas schools must focus on and succeed. The need to support school leaders is more relevant now than ever before. As a result, some type of support is needed to guide principals who need additional assistance and resources. The lived experiences in which the participants shared will give the reader a better understanding of how the principal coaches embrace this concept that has taken its features and objectives from executive coaching that is used in the business sector. The research tradition that I selected is the qualitative study. Understanding that a particular group o

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Principal (computer security)CoachingPerceptionPsychologyPedagogyQualitative researchPublic relationsMathematics education

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