The Role of District and School Leaders’ Trust and Communications in the Simultaneous Implementation of Innovative Policies

Author:

Lawson Hal A.1,Durand Francesca T.2,Wilcox Kristen Campbell3,Gregory Karen M.4,Schiller Kathryn S.5,Zuckerman Sarah J.6

Affiliation:

1. Department of Educational Policy and Leadership and the School of Social Welfare at the University at Albany, SUNY. This joint appointment mirrors his expertise in cross-systems leadership and complex partnerships for school communities challenged by poverty, social exclusion, and social isolation. An expert in interprofessional education and collaborative practice, Lawson is an engaged scholar who regularly serves as a consultant and evaluator for local school districts, state education departments, and...

2. Educational leadership at The Sage Colleges of Albany New York where she teaches research methodology and system leadership for education leaders. Dr. Durand's research interests lie in cradle-to-career policy at the state and national levels, and understanding the impacts of critical discourse on policy conversations, development, and implementation. In addition, Durand studies the roles and practices of system leadership throughout K-12 schools and the impacts of decision-making, collaboration,...

3. Educational Theory and Practice Department of the University at Albany. A former ESL and EFL teacher in the U.S. Puerto Rico and Brazil, her research addresses the intersections of language and culture and academic achievement among diverse youth in K-12 settings, and it has been accompanied by research on higher-performing schools and districts in diverse community contexts. Recently, Wilcox has developed institutes that help leadership teams to use evidence-based, goal-setting processes to learn,...

4. NYKids project in the School of Education at the University at Albany. Previously, Dr. Gregory worked as co-investigator on a research project funded by the New York State Education Department, exploring the impacts of the Regents Reform Agenda on K-8 schools in New York State. She regularly teaches courses in pedagogy, methods of second and foreign language instruction, and instructional technology. Gregory's research interests include language pedagogy, professional development, instructional...

5. Department of Educational Administration & Policy Studies, an affiliate of the Department of Sociology and the Nelson A. Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy, and is an associate of the Center for Social and Demographic Analysis. Her research explores the dynamic relationships between individuals and organizations, with particular attention to how school systems structure access to learning opportunities that stratify student outcomes and filter policy initiatives. In addition to sociology of...

6. Department of Educational Administration, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She has served as a research assistant on several grant-funded projects, including an evaluation of a principal leadership academy conducted for the Ohio State University and the Ohio Department of Education and a mixed-methods comparative case study of RttT implementation funded by the New York State Education Department. A former special education teacher, Zuckerman's research, teaching, and service focus on school and community...

Abstract

This mixed-method multiple case study investigated nine elementary schools. Six “odds-beating schools,” which serve relatively high numbers of economically disadvantaged children, achieved higher than predicted performance on state assessments when compared with three typically performing schools. The overarching research question guiding this study was: What forces, factors, and actors account for odds-beating schools’ better outcomes? The trust–communication connection provided one answer. Relational trust in odds-beating schools is an intraorganizational phenomenon, and it is accompanied by interorganizational trust (reciprocal trust). These two kinds of trust are accompanied by intraschool and district office–school communication mechanisms. Trust and communications are mutually constitutive as innovations are implemented. This connection is also an implementation outcome. When today's innovation implementation initiatives reinforce this trust–communication connection, it becomes an organizational resource for future innovation implementation.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

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