Factors That Contribute to Successful Schools: A Caribbean Perspective

About the Book

This book explores various factors that contribute to successful schools in the Caribbean. Based on my own personal and professional experience, I define successful schools as those schools where high-quality teaching takes place in a supportive environment. In these schools, spiritual leaders seek to work with educational stakeholders to develop and facilitate a culture of excellence. Therefore, I have decided to examine teacher development, community involvement, spiritual leadership, servant leadership, and an established culture of success as additional factors that can contribute to successful schools in the Antiguan context. However, this study can yield valuable information that can be used to assess educational practices within different types of schools regionally and globally since one of its main aims is to explore stakeholders’ perceptions on the contributing factors to schools’ academic success. In this book, educational practitioners, policy makers, and institutional leaders will find principles of success that will affect principal leadership, classroom learning, and student achievement.

About the Author

Eulalie Daley-Semper has served in education for twenty-seven years. Her commitment to excellence and success motivated her to attend the University of the Southern Caribbean, where she obtained a bachelor’s degree in 1991. She graduated from the University of Nottingham with a master’s degree in special needs education in 2001. She has completed doctoral studies in educational leadership and has been awarded her doctoral degree by the University of Nottingham. Dr. Semper now serves as the education and children’s ministries director of the South Leeward Mission in the Caribbean, with the headquarters in Antigua and Barbuda. She has worked in different educational environments, which include the United Kingdom, the United States, the British Virgin Islands, and the Caribbean. She is married and has two daughters. Her passion for excellence in education and her commitment to education will serve as benchmarks for success, positive engagement, and educational development for schools around the world. She believes that great teachers touch hearts and change lives.