May Issue Brief: Great Principals

School administrators serve as instructional leaders and set the tone for the culture of a school. The principal’s influence is pivotal. In this month’s issue brief, we explore effective school leadership and recommendations for improving the training, support and evaluation of educational leaders.

What essential skills should principals master in order to be exceptional instructional leaders? What are your go-to tools and resources for the training and support of principals? Please respond to our call for commentary. We'd love to hear from you!

Thanks for all you do to support and inspire great educators and engaging education.
Kim Fleming
President, Core Education LLC

Effective Principal Practices in Action

In 2013, The Wallace Foundation identified, based on a decade of research, five practices principals can use to guide their schools to better teaching and learning. WNET, New York City’s PBS affiliate, has just released a series of five videos that bring these practices to life by showing how successful principals put them to work day to day.

Great Principals: Developing Every Teacher

America Achieves’ latest multimedia report in its Spotlight on Promising Practices series is entitled “Great Principals: Developing Every Teacher.” As the title indicates, these stories showcase effective school leadership and its impact on teaching and learning.

Building Leadership Talent Through Performance Evaluation

Principals’ roles have expanded significantly over the past decade. These leaders face new challenges and new levels of accountability. AIR engaged educators in three states to design the Five Essential Practices of School Leadership framework, a foundation for facilitating principal growth and accountability.

Enabling All Principals to Be Effective

New Leaders and the Bush Institute’s Alliance to Reform Educational Leadership (AREL) launched the Conditions for Effective Leadership Project and partnered with leading researchers and practitioners to generate a comprehensive and research-based framework outlining the conditions necessary for transformational school leaders to succeed.

Building a Stronger Principal Pipeline

The third in a series of reports evaluating a multi-year Wallace initiative explores the ways in which six districts are working to improve school leadership districtwide. The report, Building a Stronger Principalship, describes several new measures districts are implementing.

Reducing the Principal Turnover Rate

A report from the School Leaders Network finds that many principals feel isolated, overwhelmed and unsupported in the job, but reducing principal turnover by 25 percent could save America's public school system $163 million a year – and might even boost student achievement.

Call for Commentary

What essential skills should principals master in order to be exceptional instructional leaders?

What are your go-to tools and resources for the training and support of principals?

Send your responses to these questions to kfleming@coreeducationllc.com
We may feature your response in a future blog post!

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