University of Missouri, Kansas City

The purpose of this project is to evaluate the efficacy of Safe and Civil School Leadership (SCSL), a professional development program designed to promote effective school leadership skills. SCSL focuses on equipping principals with the knowledge and skills to foster positive and safe learning climates using practical data-based decision making tools. Although SCSL was developed over a decade ago and has been implemented in dozens of states with thousands of principals, its effects on princi...

This project is intended to develop a measure of teachers' workplaces and how teachers spend their workday. Building on a small-scale pilot study that described teacher work activities, the social context of their work, and their affect while working, researchers propose to develop and validate the Day Reconstruction Method (DRM) measure. The instrument is intended to capture the simultaneous occurrence of these constructs, thus potentially yielding insight into aspects of teachers' work tha...