Margaret Terry Orr (PhD, Columbia) is a faculty member of Bank Street College of Education (NY) and directs its Future School Leaders Academy, a two - year school and
district leadership preparation program in partnership with 30 + suburban and small city districts.
Which is more than most current
district leadership preparation programs are scaled to produce.
Not exact matches
360 Edition (INSPIRE - 360)-- This instrument enables the educational
leadership preparation program to document
leadership practices and school improvement and organizational indicators in the schools where
program graduates work from the perspective of subordinate teachers and superordinate
district leader (s).
Many educational
leadership programs have or are developing partnerships with local schools and
districts in an effort to increase the relevancy of their
preparation programs to the particular needs of local educational communities.
These studies reported on
preparation programs that provided the opportunity to participants to perform as leaders, whether in a role - play in front of other
program participants (Nesbit et al., 2001), while working with classroom teachers in an actual teacher
leadership position in a school or
district (Howe & Stubbs, 2003), or with the support of a mentor in a teacher leader training
program (Harris & Townsend, 2007).
She has been a professor of
leadership preparation for over 20 years, preparing school and
district leaders, and has developed several
preparation and post-
preparation programs for aspiring school leaders and superintendents.
She conducted regional and national studies over the last 30 years on
leadership preparation approaches and school and
district reform initiatives, and published numerous books and articles on
leadership preparation and its impact, including (with Linda Darling - Hammond and others) Preparing principals for a changing world: Lessons from effective school
leadership programs (Jossey - Bass, 2009).
Although tremendous attention is paid to ranking and grading schools,
districts, and other educational entities, state policies guiding the approval of
leadership preparation programs and the licensure of educational leaders have received relatively limited attention.
Despite this, critics say that the curricula and methods at the majority of the nation's 500 - plus university - based principal
preparation programs remain subpar and out of step with
district needs.10 A growing number of
districts have become more assertive with universities and other training providers about improving their offerings, because
district leaders want enough well - prepared
leadership candidates to meet local learning goals and to lessen the expense and damage of early turnover among poorly prepared novice principals.
Christine also served as assistant director and
program analyst focused on
leadership development and principal
preparation at The Broad Foundation, worked with the Tennessee Achievement School
District on community engagement, and provided strategic support to Detroit Public Schools.
Strong, sustainable
district -
program partnerships allow
districts to take an active role in defining their
leadership needs, setting expectations for the
program, and aligning
preparation with other
leadership initiatives.
Schools and
districts, possibly in partnership with teacher
preparation programs and nonprofit organizations, can support teacher leaders as they develop the skills, knowledge, and dispositions that will help them achieve success in new
leadership positions.
Components of the
program address the needs of emerging school leaders engaged in formal educational
leadership programs, approved
district principal
preparation programs (PDF) and
district professional development
programs for current school leaders.
It also includes questions to help intended audiences — state,
district and local policymakers, university
preparation program directors and others — more deeply investigate issues, strategies and actions that policymakers and educators can consider to strengthen school
leadership.