Good Principals Are The Key to Successful Schools: Six Strategies to Prepare More Good Principals

Too often, argues this report from the Southern Regional Education Board, finding qualified school principals is more a matter of chance than deliberate policies. To cultivate successful principals, the report recommends that states and districts redesign training programs; choose people with real potential to enter them; ensure that they receive full licenses only after demonstrating job performance; provide alternative certification programs that will broaden the field of good candidates; and offer support for school leadership teams that have a collective impact on student achievement.

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Developing Successful Principals: Review of Research

This first in a series of Wallace-commissioned reports examines the strengths, shortcomings and promising approaches in principal preparation programs, which many in the field consider weak. Conducted by the Stanford Educational Leadership Institute in conjunction with The Finance Project, it surveys existing research on the essential elements of good leadership, program features that make for effective leadership preparation, different pathways to quality leadership development, and the need for further investigation into how programs are financed, implemented and governed.

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Leadership and Learning: A Hechinger Institute Primer for Journalists

A Hechinger Primer for Journalists.pdf

Bindu Sharma / Vishal Jain