School leadership writ small: Meetings and school principal practice

Midha, Gopal

doi:10.1177/17411432211058939

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“…With a shared focus on the hidden value of unprepared practices in education, this line of studies sheds a positive light on improvisation. A more mixed and nuanced reading of the term was introduced by the growing research on the COVID-19 pandemic that targeted improvisation as one keyword (e.g., Cox et al, 2021;Felepchuk & Finley, 2021;Ferlin et al, 2021;Lavik, 2021;Midha, 2021). With diverse scopes ranging from "quite considerable improvisation" nationwide (Ferlin et al, 2021) to inspired activities in a graduate thermodynamics class (Lavik, 2021), these studies investigated the lack of preparedness (Ferlin et al, 2021;Midha, 2021) and efforts of innovation (Cox et al, 2021;Wiedner et al, 2020) in the responsive actions of the public and professionals.…”

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The Road to Becoming a “Live-Streaming Star”: Ecological Influences on Improvisation Efforts Among Teaching-from-Home Chinese English as a Foreign Language Teachers in the COVID-19 Outbreak

Chen

2023

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When the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak threw the world into a public panic, teachers worldwide were challenged to adapt to a new pedagogical ecology as online delivery of classes was widely made a required necessity. This study explores how language teachers responded to the sudden disruption via improvisational endeavours during the first online semester and how their endeavours were influenced by various ecological factors beyond the online classroom. Data were collected using a survey and interviews with English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers from three universities in eastern coastal China. The results showed that the participants’ improvisation efforts featured limited preparation and creativity and a lukewarm willingness to try out new things while teaching from home. Ecological influences on the teachers’ improvisation efforts were identified as a multitude of institutional, daily contextual, sociocultural, and personal factors that interacted in complex, less predictable ways. In general, the diverse sources of influence exerted a mixed impact on individual teachers’ improvisation practices and performance. Sociocultural influence, in particular the “live-streaming star” meme, was found to be a unique source of inspiration and support. This exploratory study expands the research of improvisation in educational settings, which has largely been associated with pedagogical innovation to adapt to micro-level changes. In the emergency remote teaching scenario, innovative attempts made by individual teachers were subject to the meso-level and the macro-level ecological influences, which may overwhelm or deter practitioners. Apart from potential theoretical and pedagogical implications, the study offers insights into the nature and impact of crisis-prompted online teaching in and beyond the COVID-19 context.

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The Road to Becoming a “Live-Streaming Star”: Ecological Influences on Improvisation Efforts Among Teaching-from-Home Chinese English as a Foreign Language Teachers in the COVID-19 Outbreak

Chen

2023

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Meetings: school leadership infrastructure that creates sense

Midha

2022

International Journal of Leadership in Education

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Unplanned meetings: Shifting school principal practice 5 min at a time

Midha¹

2023

Educational Management Administration & Leadership

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This article systematically reviews the literature noting unplanned meetings of the principal or unplanned principal meetings (UPMs) from 1970 to 2022. UPMs are understudied though they are considered essential for communication and/or labeled as distractions. The purpose of this review is to examine notations of UPMs in academic literature to estimate how much principal time they comprise and what purposes they serve. The systematic literature search used keyword search, snowballing, and personal network references to yield 31 academic publications. The interpretive findings of the review suggest that UPMs comprise at least 16% of principal workdays and provide information exchange, crisis management, and emotional support. UPMs fulfilled these purposes through their informality, candidness, immediacy, and confidentiality. UPMs epitomize that small does not mean simple. Even though they usually take under 5 min, they shift the school principal time, attention, and space and carry the potential to shift school and school leadership practice. Significantly, the everyday, little-noted UPMs manifest the work tension and work intensity of principalship and may serve as a novel lens to theorize principal practice.

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School leadership writ small: Meetings and school principal practice

Cited by 3 publications

References 93 publications

The Road to Becoming a “Live-Streaming Star”: Ecological Influences on Improvisation Efforts Among Teaching-from-Home Chinese English as a Foreign Language Teachers in the COVID-19 Outbreak

The Road to Becoming a “Live-Streaming Star”: Ecological Influences on Improvisation Efforts Among Teaching-from-Home Chinese English as a Foreign Language Teachers in the COVID-19 Outbreak

Meetings: school leadership infrastructure that creates sense

Unplanned meetings: Shifting school principal practice 5 min at a time

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