Haim Shaked

Hemdat Hadarom College, Education, Head of Department

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Haim Shaked, Ph.D., is Vice President for Academic Affairs at Hemdat Hadarom College of Education, Netivot, Israel. Having earned his doctorate from Bar Ilan University in 2014, he has been teaching educational-administration graduate students and helping to prepare school principals, superintendents, and policy analysts ever since. Prior to joining the academic world, he served as a high and elementary school principal in northern Israel for 17 years. As a scholar-practitioner, who brings real-world experience to his academic work, Dr. Shaked's research interests include instructional leadership, system thinking in school leadership, and education reform. As a skilled qualitative research methodologist, his empirical studies are well-crafted and tend to include a large number of interviews and focus groups. He has published dozens of refereed research articles and several book chapters in the field of educational leadership. His book (co-author Chen Schechter, Forwarded by Michael Fullan) "Systems Thinking for School Leaders: Holistic Leadership for Excellence in Education" was published recently by Springer Press. His book "Leading Holistically: How Schools, Districts, and States Improve Systemically" (co-editors Chen Schechter

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Existing Research on Systems Thinking in School Leadership

This chapter moves ahead to the main focus of the book: the specific applications of systems thin... more This chapter moves ahead to the main focus of the book: the specific applications of systems thinking in the management area of school leadership. To this end, we review the existing literature on the implementation of systems thinking in school leadership. The literature on this topic primarily considers systems thinking as a method to be implemented for a large-scale change program or to improve a distinct area at school. Nevertheless, it is important to clarify how principals can operate a school holistically, using systems thinking during daily school life.

Systems Thinking Among Enrollees in a Principal Preparation Program

Journal of research on leadership education, Apr 27, 2018

Principal preparation programs are criticized for failing to produce school leaders who can succe... more Principal preparation programs are criticized for failing to produce school leaders who can successfully face the growing complexity of today's educational leadership. Inasmuch as the literature highlighted systems thinking as beneficial for complex situations, this study aimed to explore how preservice principals, enrolled in a systems thinking course as part of their principal preparation program, would identify practical opportunities to apply systems thinking principles in school leadership. Findings showed that preservice principals considered the characteristic of leading wholes as helpful for instructional leadership (curriculum and community) and the characteristic of adopting a multidimensional view as useful for interpersonal relationships and decision making. Implications and further research are discussed. Keywords systems thinking, principal preparation programs, school leadership School leaders' effectiveness is crucial to improving student outcomes, especially in schools with the greatest need. Leadership is the second most influential school-related factor on student learning, surpassed only by effective classroom teachers (Davis & Darling-Hammond, 2012; Mendels & Mitgang, 2013). While it is widely agreed that good principals do make a difference, what is less clear is how to prepare "good" principals. In fact, existing principal preparation programs are a source of concern among policymakers, university faculty, and educators

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