Figure 3 Conceptual Framework In conducting my research I used several databases to find peer-reviewed studies and scholarly texts to help answer the research questions. These sources included ERIC, ProQuest, PsychINFO, EBSCOhost, CLIO, Linguistic and Language Behavior Abstracts, H.W. Wilson Education Full Text, SIRS Researcher, Gale, Google Scholar, and SAGE Education Full Text Collection. Key words used were: adult development, constructive-developmental, professional development, teacher, learning-oriented leadership, bilingual, ESL, CLD, EL, ELL, LEP, multilingual, mentoring, teaming, leadership opportunities, collegial inquiry, transformational learning, and adaptive challenge. My searches were bounded by articles and books ranging from 1995 to 2011 for the purpose of reviewing recent literature. Adaptive Teaching Challenges in Education Ronald Heifetz (1994) is a scholar whose ideas and research have impacted leadership studies across education, medicine, and business fields. His research increasingly over the last decade has greatly influenced the field of educational leadership. Heifetz’s (1994) theory of adaptive challenges originated from the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government as part of their Education Leadership Project, and Heifetz drew examples for his theory from medicine but related the theory to leadership more generally. In 2004, Heifetz and Linsky (2004) published a piece in relating the theory specifically to K-12 education as Educational Leadership did Michael Fullan in 2004 and 2006 published works, followed by Wagner et al. (2006) with In the last five years many pieces of have published connecting Heifetz’s Change Leadership. definition of adaptive challenges with the largest problems concerning educational leadership (Coates, 2010; Drago-Severson, 2009; Fullan, 2006; Higham et al., 2007; Hopkins et al., 2011;
Figure 3 Conceptual Framework In conducting my research I used several databases to find peer-reviewed studies and scholarly texts to help answer the research questions. These sources included ERIC, ProQuest, PsychINFO, EBSCOhost, CLIO, Linguistic and Language Behavior Abstracts, H.W. Wilson Education Full Text, SIRS Researcher, Gale, Google Scholar, and SAGE Education Full Text Collection. Key words used were: adult development, constructive-developmental, professional development, teacher, learning-oriented leadership, bilingual, ESL, CLD, EL, ELL, LEP, multilingual, mentoring, teaming, leadership opportunities, collegial inquiry, transformational learning, and adaptive challenge. My searches were bounded by articles and books ranging from 1995 to 2011 for the purpose of reviewing recent literature. Adaptive Teaching Challenges in Education Ronald Heifetz (1994) is a scholar whose ideas and research have impacted leadership studies across education, medicine, and business fields. His research increasingly over the last decade has greatly influenced the field of educational leadership. Heifetz’s (1994) theory of adaptive challenges originated from the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government as part of their Education Leadership Project, and Heifetz drew examples for his theory from medicine but related the theory to leadership more generally. In 2004, Heifetz and Linsky (2004) published a piece in Educational Leadership relating the theory specifically to K-12 education as did Michael Fullan in 2004 and 2006 published works, followed by Wagner et al. (2006) with Change Leadership. In the last five years many pieces of have published connecting Heifetz’s definition of adaptive challenges with the largest problems concerning educational leadership (Coates, 2010; Drago-Severson, 2009; Fullan, 2006; Higham et al., 2007; Hopkins et al., 2011;
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