Everyone should read Rocky’s doctoral thesis: “EXEMPLARY INSTRUCTIONAL LEADERSHIP IN FOUR TEXAS MEGA-HIGH SCHOOLS: PRINCIPAL RESPONSES TO ORGANIZATIONAL SOCIALIZATION AND INSTITUTIONAL DEMANDS.”
After I started to read it, I thought that it would give us more insight into our current events.
For instance:
We now know where the term ‘cohort’ comes from. Rocky uses it four times in his dissertation.
Other words that we know are in Rocky’s vocabulary, but just haven’t been applicable to the LTISD are:
| Phrase | Times Used |
| “non-instructional institutional demands” | 65 |
| “instructional leadership” | 190 |
| “instructional leaders” | 267 |
| “exemplary instructional leaders” | 69 |
We now know how the recent ‘District Improvement Plan’ became so utterly obfuscated!
But wait, important words and phrases such as “effective school leadership” (used only five times), “accountability standard” (used only 7 times), and finally “community expectations” (used only once!).
See Rocky really doesn’t know much about important issues such as “community expectations.”
He does like to go about and say that the “overwhelming majority …”
Rocky can you define just what an “overwhelming majority” is? How many people did you sample for that definition?
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