School Staffing Models Can Support Principals as Instructional Leaders
With the rise of new academic standards, more rigorous educator evaluation and support systems, and a growing population of students who need additional supports, expectations for public school...
View ArticleSchool Leadership Counts
While the importance and impact of school and teacher leadership has been widely understood by policymakers and practitioners, the field has lacked a comprehensive, research-based analysis to identify...
View ArticleGuiding Principals: State Efforts to Bolster Instructional Leadership
In her newest policy paper and accompanying data visualization, Roxanne Garza explores how support systems for principals vary across the country. Over the last decade, the term instructional leader...
View ArticleIssue Brief: Effective School Leaders
School administrators serve as instructional leaders and set the tone for the culture of a school. The principal’s influence is pivotal. In Core Education’s May issue brief, we explore effective school...
View ArticleNAESP Study about the Principalship
Social-emotional learning, mental health, and student poverty are among the top student-related concerns of Pre-K through grade 8 principals, according to The Pre-K School Leader in 2018: A 10-Year...
View ArticleRevisioning the Principal Supervisor Role
Principals and districts benefit when principal supervisors move beyond the role of administrator to coach and mentor, according to a new Vanderbilt University report. The report, “A New Role Emerges...
View ArticlePrincipal Attrition and Mobility
The National Center for Education Statistics released a new First Look report entitled Principal Attrition and Mobility: Results From the 2016–17 Principal Follow-up Survey. This report presents...
View ArticlePerceptions of School Leadership
Effective principal leadership practices improve school organization, teaching, and student achievement outcomes. These practices include framing and communicating a school’s goals and mission,...
View ArticlePrincipal Diversity Affects Teacher Diversity
A new study focusing on Missouri and Tennessee shows that principals of color are more likely to hire and retain teachers of color. After five years, having a Black principal leads to a 5 percentage...
View ArticleThe Changing Role of School Leaders
Among all in-school factors that impact student learning, teachers carry the most weight — but school leaders are not far behind. Decades of research have proven the positive influence principals can...
View ArticleTime to Lead: An Illustrative Look at how Elementary School Principals Spend...
Principals can improve their teachers’ classroom practice, either directly or indirectly by arranging resources, to support improvement. However, there is limited information about how principals spend...
View ArticleHow Principals Affect Students and Schools: A Systematic Synthesis of Two...
Over the past two decades, the policy landscape and the research landscape of school leadership have experienced major shifts. High-stakes accountability, multiple-measure teacher evaluation systems,...
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