Rural Superintendents’ Experiences with Empowerment and Alignment to Vision in the Application of Principle-Centered Leadership

This qualitative phenomenological narrative inquiry research study used narrative inquiry to investigate rural superintendents’ experiences with the application of principle-centered leadership in their districts. Ten superintendents from rural districts in east Texas were interviewed. Narratives were analyzed by organizing, describing, classifying, and interpreting data collected from the interviews. The study results support the notion that the application of principle-centered leadership helps superintendents to become effective leaders in their districts. Other findings from this study include the notion that effective superintendents practice the tenets of principle-centered leadership with different actions and methods based on their beliefs and personalities. Findings also emphasized that trustworthiness and trust is the foundation of principle-centered leadership, which allows for empowerment and alignment to vision. This study provides superintendents and other educational leaders with practices critical to practicing principle-centered leadership in order to become more effective leaders in their districts

Rural Superintendents\u27 Experiences in the Application of Principle-Centered Leadership at the Personal and Interpersonal Levels

Covey ( 1990) suggested that to achieve success in leadership, one must identify core values and principles and ensure that managerial and organizational systems are aligned with these values and principles. These values explained by Covey in principle-centered leadership are built upon the foundation principles of trustworthiness at the personal level and trust at the interpersonal level, which allows for empowerment at the managerial level and alignment at the organizational level. Covey explained that trust or the lack of trust is the foundation of success or failure both in relationships as well as business, industry, education, and government. Combs, Edmonson, and Harris (2013) suggested the premise that trust matters has been confirmed by research findings and trust is often the distinguishing factor between leadership success and failure

Soil Carbon Dynamics in Soybean Cropland and Forests in Mato Grosso, Brazil

These files contain the carbon content, radiocarbon, and stable isotope data for soils collected to 2 m deep in forest and soybean cropland in Mato Grosso, Brazil.This research has been supported by a grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Science to Achieve Results (STAR) program (Award #: FP-91749001-0) and a Brown University EEB Dissertation Development Grant award to R.C.N. S.T. received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 695101 (14Constraint)). Additional support was provided by the Andrew Mellon Foundation to S.P., NSF Awards DEB 0949370, DEB 1257391, and ICN 1342953 to C.N., and by the State of São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP)

Soil Carbon Dynamics in Soybean Cropland and Forests in Mato Grosso, Brazil

These files contain the carbon content, radiocarbon, and stable isotope data for soils collected to 2 m deep in forest and soybean cropland in Mato Grosso, Brazil

Deception and the tet offensive

The article of record as published may be found at https://doi.org/10.1080/0140239900843741