Building Principal Pipelines: A Job That Urban Districts Can Do. Perspective. Updated Edition

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Autor/in	Mendels, Pamela
Institution	Wallace Foundation
Titel	Building Principal Pipelines: A Job That Urban Districts Can Do. Perspective. Updated Edition
Quelle	(2017), (32 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Principals; Administrator Qualifications; School Districts; Administrator Characteristics; Standards; Administrator Education; Personnel Selection; Urban Schools; Administrator Effectiveness; Leadership Training; Preservice Teacher Education; Program Effectiveness; Change Strategies; Best Practices; State Standards; Alignment (Education); School Support; Program Improvement; Pilot Projects; Educational Improvement; North Carolina; Colorado; Georgia; Florida; New York; Maryland + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Principal; Schulleiter; School district; Schulbezirk; Standard; Personalauswahl; Personalentscheidung; Urban area; Urban areas; School; Schools; Stadtregion; Stadt; Schule; Führungslehre; Lehramtsstudiengang; Lehrerausbildung; Lösungsstrategie; Schulförderverein; Pilot project; Modellversuch; Pilotprojekt; Teaching improvement; Unterrichtsentwicklung
Abstract	School district officials have faced the urgent task in recent years of ensuring that all schools, not just a lucky few, benefit from sure-footed leadership by professionals who know how to focus on instruction and improve it. The question boils down to this: How can districts develop a pipeline of great school principals? Research about a Wallace Foundation school leadership initiative in six large school districts provides insights that may offer districts a way forward. Most important, the research finds that it is possible for districts to put in place the four key parts of a strong principal pipeline: apt standards for principals, high-quality pre-service training, rigorous hiring procedures, and tightly aligned on-the-job performance evaluation and support. Moreover, building a pipeline can produce several swift benefits for districts and principals alike. These include principal job standards that foster a districtwide understanding of what constitutes effective leadership for local schools, a possible greater compatibility between principals and the schools to which they are assigned, and performance evaluations designed not only to measure what's important but also to help principals succeed at their very tough jobs. At the same time, the research makes clear that some elements of the pipeline are particularly complex undertakings. For example, it's simpler for districts to upgrade their own training programs for aspiring principals than it is to work with universities to improve the university-based programs from which many aspiring school leaders graduate. In addition, fixing what many see as the weakest link in principal training--providing candidates with meaningful, practical experience in the form of internships or residencies--can be expensive and involved. This "Perspective" also provides estimates of what it cost the initiative districts to build and operate the various pipeline components. Overall, the pipelines proved affordable, costing the districts on average about $5.6 million yearly, or less than 0.5 percent of their annual expenditures. This publication, which offers a set of considerations for districts interested in building principal pipelines, as well as for states that want to help localities in this work, draws from a number of sources. One of the chief ones is an independent evaluation of the implementation of the Wallace six-district effort, the Principal Pipeline Initiative, an $85-million venture launched by the foundation in 2011. Another important source is a RAND examination of the costs of pipeline construction and operation in the pipeline initiative districts. A separate RAND study, expected to be published in 2018, is exploring the pipelines' impact on schools and student performance. [For the previous edition of this Wallace Foundation "Perspective," see ED570664. For the related RAND study, see ED574749.] (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01