ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study was to examine the learning of adaptive leadership concepts that participants experienced and applied during and after the PLS leadership training. This chapter documents the major findings of the study, which answer these research questions:

What concepts of adaptive leadership did participants learn, and how did they learn them?

In what ways were superintendents able to apply adaptive leadership concepts learned in PLS in the context of their jobs?

In what ways (if any) was the learning of adaptive leadership concepts similar to (or did it engender) transformative learning?