Ulrich C Reitzug
Biographic Data
| ID | 5181561 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ulrich C Reitzug |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ulrich C |
| FAMILY NAME | Reitzug |
| SIGNATURE | REITZUG U C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
My Progress Comes From the Kids”
This article uses elements of narrative and portraiture to acknowledge the voices of four teachers who participated in a 3-year effort to turn around an urban elementary school. Turnaround is a sanctioned reform effort intended to produce rapid, dramatic improvement in student academic achievement in a low-performing school. We present the teacher portraits as descriptive testimony to the individuals’ work under turnaround conditions. We conclude…
School Turnaround Fever
School “turnaround” has received significant attention recently in education literature and policy action, especially as a means to dramatically improve urban education. In current common education usage, “turnaround” refers to the rapid, significant improvement in the academic achievement of persistently low-achieving schools. Employing a conceptual framework informed by research regarding school reform history, the school leadership fashion cyc…
Conceptualizing Instructional Leadership
Instructional leadership has long been advocated as a primary responsibility of principals. What is unclear, however, is the role that instructional leadership plays in the current high-stakes testing era in the daily work lives of principals, how they practice as instructional leaders, and toward what instructional outcomes they strive. This study focused on how principals understand the relationship between their daily work and the improvement …
I'm Not Going to Lose You
Urban educators interact with students in a variety of ways. Frequently, practices are grounded in assumptions about the necessity of control, whereas in some instances, practices reflect assumptions about the necessity of empowerment. Contrasting assumptions and practices about empowerment and control reflect a choice that confronts urban educators as they interact with students. This study focuses on the choicefor empowerment made by one urban …
A Case Study of Empowering Principal Behavior
During the past decade there has been considerable criticism of administrative leadership behavior in schools. Criticism has focused on the hegemony of autocratic forms of leadership as well as on the manipulation inherent in leadership practices that “sell” leader-held conceptions of organization direction and practice to followers. Principals have been exhorted to empower teachers. However, much of the empowerment literature promotes a narrow c…
Essay Review
Self-managed leadership
Principal-Teacher Interactions in Instructionally Effective and Ordinary Elementary Schools
The principal in the more effective school talked with teachers more often, was concerned for them, had high expectations, and was more supportive
School Turnaround Fever
School “turnaround” has received significant attention recently in education literature and policy action, especially as a means to dramatically improve urban education. In current common education usage, “turnaround” refers to the rapid, significant improvement in the academic achievement of persistently low-achieving schools. Employing a conceptual framework informed by research regarding school reform history, the school leadership fashion cyc…
I'm Not Going to Lose You
Urban educators interact with students in a variety of ways. Frequently, practices are grounded in assumptions about the necessity of control, whereas in some instances, practices reflect assumptions about the necessity of empowerment. Contrasting assumptions and practices about empowerment and control reflect a choice that confronts urban educators as they interact with students. This study focuses on the choicefor empowerment made by one urban …
A Case Study of Empowering Principal Behavior
During the past decade there has been considerable criticism of administrative leadership behavior in schools. Criticism has focused on the hegemony of autocratic forms of leadership as well as on the manipulation inherent in leadership practices that “sell” leader-held conceptions of organization direction and practice to followers. Principals have been exhorted to empower teachers. However, much of the empowerment literature promotes a narrow c…
Conceptualizing Instructional Leadership
Instructional leadership has long been advocated as a primary responsibility of principals. What is unclear, however, is the role that instructional leadership plays in the current high-stakes testing era in the daily work lives of principals, how they practice as instructional leaders, and toward what instructional outcomes they strive. This study focused on how principals understand the relationship between their daily work and the improvement …
Self-managed leadership
Principal-Teacher Interactions in Instructionally Effective and Ordinary Elementary Schools
The principal in the more effective school talked with teachers more often, was concerned for them, had high expectations, and was more supportive
Self-managed leadership
Essay Review
A Case Study of Empowering Principal Behavior
During the past decade there has been considerable criticism of administrative leadership behavior in schools. Criticism has focused on the hegemony of autocratic forms of leadership as well as on the manipulation inherent in leadership practices that “sell” leader-held conceptions of organization direction and practice to followers. Principals have been exhorted to empower teachers. However, much of the empowerment literature promotes a narrow c…
I'm Not Going to Lose You
Urban educators interact with students in a variety of ways. Frequently, practices are grounded in assumptions about the necessity of control, whereas in some instances, practices reflect assumptions about the necessity of empowerment. Contrasting assumptions and practices about empowerment and control reflect a choice that confronts urban educators as they interact with students. This study focuses on the choicefor empowerment made by one urban …
Conceptualizing Instructional Leadership
Instructional leadership has long been advocated as a primary responsibility of principals. What is unclear, however, is the role that instructional leadership plays in the current high-stakes testing era in the daily work lives of principals, how they practice as instructional leaders, and toward what instructional outcomes they strive. This study focused on how principals understand the relationship between their daily work and the improvement …
School Turnaround Fever
School “turnaround” has received significant attention recently in education literature and policy action, especially as a means to dramatically improve urban education. In current common education usage, “turnaround” refers to the rapid, significant improvement in the academic achievement of persistently low-achieving schools. Employing a conceptual framework informed by research regarding school reform history, the school leadership fashion cyc…
My Progress Comes From the Kids”
This article uses elements of narrative and portraiture to acknowledge the voices of four teachers who participated in a 3-year effort to turn around an urban elementary school. Turnaround is a sanctioned reform effort intended to produce rapid, dramatic improvement in student academic achievement in a low-performing school. We present the teacher portraits as descriptive testimony to the individuals’ work under turnaround conditions. We conclude…
Pedagogy (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies (7 works) · Mathematics education (6 works) · Collaborative Teaching and Inclusion (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Empowerment (3 works)