Moving Ahead: Factors contributing to successful transition of people with intellectual disabilities from congregated to community-based residential options in two regions in Ireland

This report details the findings of a research project entitled Moving Ahead. The project aimed to examine factors that contribute to the successful transfer of people with intellectual disabilities from congregated to community-based living in two regional areas in Ireland. It was undertaken by a team of researchers from Ireland and the UK, led by Dr. Christine Lineha

Leading for Change: New Training Opportunities for Education's Executives

Describes two Wallace-funded training programs for state- and district-level education leaders to improve policy coordination and advance systemwide student achievement. Outlines goals, key elements, tools, and resources of each program

Building Ideapreneurship Capability: Delivering Differentiated Customer Value From the Frontline

[Excerpt] Transformational innovation appears to be a dominant aspiration of most leading firms. While such innovation efforts are pervasive across industries and regions, the results from these endeavors can be highly varied. Instead of a single-minded focus on transformational innovation, could incremental innovation, if directly tied to real customer need, be a powerful opportunity for growth and sustainability in this dynamic world? HCL Technologies, a global IT services firm based in Noida, India believes so

The Brain in Business: The Case for Organisational Cognitive Neuroscience?

The application of cognitive neuroscientific techniques to understanding social behaviour has resulted in many discoveries. Yet advocates of the ‘social cognitive neuroscience’ approach maintain that it suffers from a number of limitations. The most notable of these is its distance from any form of real-world applicability. One solution to this limitation is ‘Organisational Cognitive Neuroscience’ – the study of the cognitive neuroscience of human behaviour in, and in response to, organizations. Given that all of us will spend most of our lives in some sort of work related organisation, organisational cognitive neuroscience allows us to examine the cognitive underpinnings of social behaviour that occurs in what may be our most natural ecology. Here we provide a brief overview of this approach, a definition and also some possible questions that the new approach would be best suited to address

Identifying and Encouraging Leadership Potential: Assessment Technology and the Library Profession

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Six Districts Begin the Principal Pipeline Initiative

This first report of an ongoing evaluation of The Wallace Foundation's Principal Pipeline Initiative describes the six participating school districts' plans and activities during the first year of their grants. The evaluation, conducted by Policy Studies Associates and the RAND Corporation, isintended to inform policy makers and practitioners about the process of carrying out new policies and practices for school leadership and about the results of investments in the Principal Pipeline Initiative. This report is based on collection and analysis of qualitative data, including the districts' proposals, work plans, and progress reports and semi-structured interviews in spring 2012 with 91 administrators employed by districts and their partner institutions. Leaders in all districts report wanting to enlarge their pools of strong applicants for principal positions and to identify and cultivate leadership talent as early as possible in educators' careers.Districts are actively working on allrequired pipeline components: (1) with stakeholder participation, they have developed standards and identified competencies for principals, which they plan to use to guide principal training, hiring, evaluation, and support; (2) they are initiating or strengthening partnerships with university training programs; (3) for hiring, they have standard performance tasks and are developing systems to capture data on candidates' experience; (4) they have diagnostic evaluation tools and are working to build the capacity of principals' supervisors and mentors to support principals' skill development. In addition, all are also bolstering district-run training programs for graduates of university training programs who aspire to become principals

An Impossible Job? The View From the Urban Superintendent's Chair

Presents the results of a survey of superintendents of the 100 largest urban and ex-urban districts in the U.S. Examines how school leaders define their challenges and potential solutions

Values-Based Leadership and Happiness: Enlightened Leadership Improves the Return on People

As employees assert a greater role in corporate management and decision-making, the successful institution recognizes and rewards these values while decentralizing the traditional workforce hierarchy