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Loyola University Chicago Loyola eCommons Dissertations Theses and Dissertations 2011 Riding the Wave of Gentrification: Selected Principals' erP ceptions of Gentrification's Impact on Leadership and School Culture Jose Antonio Jimenez Loyola University Chicago Follow this and additional works at: https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_diss Part of the Educational Administration and Supervision Commons Recommended Citation Jimenez, Jose Antonio, "Riding the Wave of Gentrification: Selected Principals' erP ceptions of Gentrification's Impact on Leadership and School Culture" (2011). Dissertations. 288. https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_diss/288 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Theses and Dissertations at Loyola eCommons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Loyola eCommons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License. Copyright © 2011 Jose Antonio Jimenez LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO RIDING THE WAVE OF GENTRIFICATION: SELECTED PRINCIPALS‘ PERCEPTIONS OF GENTRIFICATION‘S IMPACT ON LEADERSHIP AND SCHOOL CULTURE A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION IN CANDIDACY FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF EDUCATION PROGRAM IN EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP BY J. ANTONIO JIMENEZ CHICAGO, ILLINOIS DECEMBER 2011 Copyright by J. Antonio Jimenez, 2011 All rights reserved. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This endeavor would not have taken place without the assistance of my dissertation chair, Dr. Marla Israel. Dr. Israel was my toughest critic and perhaps my most important teacher. I would like to also thank Dr. Beverly Kasper and Dr. Harry Rossi for serving in my committee. Their insight, guidance and support would be forever appreciated. I would also like to thank Loyola University‘s School of Education for opening their doors to me and allowing me this grand opportunity. I owe a great debt to all the practitioners and colleagues that have mentored me through this process. Thank you Chicago Public Schools for enriching my life by allowing me to put into practice what I have learned during this process. Thank you, principal, Carl Dasko, for all the support and encouragement. I would like to also thank the districts, superintendents, and principals that participated in this study, who shared their wisdom to make this study come to fruition. Finally, I would also like to acknowledge my wife, Dina, for filling all the voids in my life. She is the epitome of the axiom, behind a good man lies an even greater woman. iii DEDICATION I dedicate this dissertation to my father and mother, Jose Antonio and Maria Elena Jimenez and to the love of my life, my wife, Dina and my three sons, Joseph, John, and Jack. TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ............................................................................................... iii LIST OF TABLES ............................................................................................................ vii LIST OF FIGURES ......................................................................................................... xiv ABSTRACT ................................................................................................................... xv CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................ 1 Gentrification .......................................................................................................... 1 School Culture ........................................................................................................ 4 Changing School Culture and School Leadership .................................................. 7 Statement of Problem ............................................................................................ 13 Purpose of the Study ............................................................................................. 14 Research Questions ............................................................................................... 15 Conceptual Framework ......................................................................................... 15 Limitations of the Study........................................................................................ 22 Organization of the Study ..................................................................................... 22 Definition of Terms............................................................................................... 23 CHAPTER II: LITERATURE REVIEW ......................................................................... 25 Gentrification ........................................................................................................ 26 Schools and Gentrification .................................................................................... 28 Leadership Taxonomies for Great Success ........................................................... 30 Bolman and Deal‘s Typology (Knowledge and Comprehension) ........................ 32 Jim Collins‘ Good-to-Great Typology (Application and Analysis) ..................... 36 Marzano‘s Leadership Typology (Synthesis) ....................................................... 50 Fullan‘s Leadership Typology (Evaluation) ......................................................... 54 Summary ............................................................................................................... 56 CHAPTER III: PROCEDURES ....................................................................................... 61 Research Questions and Methodology.................................................................. 61 Research Procedures ............................................................................................. 63 Site Selection ........................................................................................................ 66 Data Collection Procedures ................................................................................... 68 Informed Consent.................................................................................................. 69 Coding Procedures ................................................................................................ 70 Limitations ............................................................................................................ 72 Bias Minimization ................................................................................................. 73 Summary ............................................................................................................... 74 v CHAPTER IV: DATA ...................................................................................................... 75 Participating Districts‘ Demographics and Socioeconomic Indicators ................ 76 Participants‘ Demographics .................................................................................. 81 Research Data: The Interviews ............................................................................. 82 Gentrification Analysis ....................................................................................... 109 Coding Procedures .............................................................................................. 111 Summary of Good to Great Coding Analysis ..................................................... 121 Coding Using Fullan‘s (2006) Turnaround Leadership Framework .................. 125 Summary of Fullan‘s (2006) Turnaround Leadership Coding ........................... 142 Di Primio (1988) Coding Analysis ..................................................................... 144 Summary ............................................................................................................. 166 CHAPTER V: DATA ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION .................................... 167 Triangulation ....................................................................................................... 168 Data Analysis ...................................................................................................... 168 Themes ................................................................................................................ 169 Limitations of the Study...................................................................................... 212 Recommendations for Further Study .................................................................. 213 Implications for Leadership Preparation ............................................................. 214 Conclusion .......................................................................................................... 215 APPENDIX A: DISTRICT LETTER OF COOPERATION TO PARTICIPATE IN RESEARCH ........................................................................................................ 218 APPENDIX B: PRINCIPAL CONSENT LETTER I EMAILED .................................. 222 APPENDIX C: INTERVIEW PROTOCOL ................................................................... 224 APPENDIX D: PRINCIPAL CONSENT LETTER II ................................................... 227 APPENDIX E: PARTICIPANT REJECTION LETTER ............................................... 230 REFERENCE LIST ........................................................................................................ 232 VITA 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