School culture change in the making: Leadership feactors that matter

Urban Education

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 616-637

  Eilers, Angela M ^a   Camacho, Armando ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Whittier Elementary School   (United States)

Author keywords

Change; Culture; Leadership; Urban

Indexed keywords

EID: 35449003663     PISSN: 00420859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0042085907304906     Document Type: Article

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