%0 Journal Article
%T ¡°How Can He Be So Cruel?¡± Examining Issues of Trust in School Improvement Efforts
%A Jacqueline R. A. Wettlaufer
%A Steve R. Sider
%J Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership
%@ 1555-4589
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1555458919826220
%X In this case, a high school vice-principal encounters tension and anger when she rewrites a staff member¡¯s report card comments without his knowledge. The case narrative examines the conflict that arises when, under time constraints and pressures to produce student reports, the vice-principal acts on a decision she believes is ethically correct only to find that she incurs a significant setback with staffing relationships largely due to wavering of trust. The analysis examines how transformational leadership builds self-efficacy in all staff founded on trusting relationships. Professional reflection provides a conduit through which educational leaders can assess their own practice and implement the changes needed to sustain school improvement planning
%K trust
%K transformational leadership
%K school improvement
%K assessment
%K self-efficacy
%K school effectiveness
%K trust (psychology)
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1555458919826220