As such, both this program's structure and focus are supported by the research on
effective principal learning.
Not exact matches
«We
learned in this study that grabbing hold of these glycans can be a very important early step in an
effective immune response to HIV, and with this knowledge, we believe we can design better candidate vaccines,» said
principal investigator Dennis R. Burton, professor of immunology and microbiology at TSRI.
To accomplish this task, she remains focused on ensuring that every school has strong
principals who support
effective teaching and personalized
learning for every student.
Few parents,
principals, or even teachers themselves agree that all teachers are equally
effective at helping children
learn.
Principals have the right and the responsibility to say, as Michael Fullan suggests
effective leaders today should, «In this building, we are going to squeeze every bit of value we can out of our investment in digital technology, so from here on out we are all — including me — going make use of technology as an accelerator to improve our effectiveness in supporting kids in their
learning.»
The new version of the law, he said, will need to ensure
effective teachers and
principals for underperforming schools, expand
learning time, and devise an accountability system that measures individual student progress and uses data to inform instruction and teacher evaluation.
It might surprise some people that stressed - out school
principals often fail to respond to everyday
learning experiences in
effective ways.
If they believe passionately that their students can achieve proficiency, if they have a clear vision of what makes a school
effective, if they
learn the lessons of school change, and if they take advantage of external assessments,
principals should be able to lead a school staff to bring a first - rate education to every child.
Faced with the challenges of improving
learning in every classroom, state governors and legislators, local school boards, superintendents, and
principals are backing National Board Certification as an
effective means to upgrade teaching.
As she recounts in a new book about how
principals learn to lead, Fiarman realized that
effective leadership is a long game, one that begins with a belief that the adults in the building have to be
learning alongside the children.
In schools where Indigenous students are achieving well, there is generally a highly
effective and committed school
principal who has done «whatever it takes» to ensure Indigenous students are at school, engaged in
learning and making sound progress.
On average across all schools, the impact of having a
principal 1 standard deviation more
effective than the average
principal is as much as seven additional months of
learning in a single academic year.
Our results indicate that highly
effective principals raise the achievement of a typical student in their schools by between two and seven months of
learning in a single school year; ineffective
principals lower achievement by the same amount.
Paris, an international expert on literacy, says: «In my experiences working with school improvement teams, every
effective innovation had a deeply engaged
principal who worked alongside teachers to understand and implement new techniques for teaching and
learning.»
Principals and teachers in good schools will talk about
effective learning and what constitutes good teaching — in particular how professional teacher knowledge, practice and engagement works in their schools.
Research shows that an
effective principal accounts for 25 percent of student performance gains and can accelerate student
learning by 2 to 7 months.
Principals use a range of data management methods and technologies to ensure that the school's resources and staff are efficiently organised and managed to provide an
effective and safe
learning environment as well as value for money.
Teachers received a single - page handout on the seven qualities of
effective schools: nuggets such as «the climate of an
effective school is NOT OPPRESSIVE,» «the
principal acts as an instructional leader,» and
effective schools offer the «opportunity to
learn and student time on task.»
Principals create a positive culture of challenge and support, enabling
effective teaching that promotes enthusiastic, independent learners, committed to lifelong
learning.
This blueprint builds on the significant reforms already made in response to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 around four areas: (1) Improving teacher and
principal effectiveness; (2) Providing information to families to help them evaluate and improve their children's schools; (3) Implementing college - and career - ready standards; and (4) Improving student
learning and achievement in America's lowest - performing schools by providing intensive support and
effective interventions.
In The Blind Advantage — published by Harvard Education Press — author Bill Henderson describes how going blind helped him develop qualities that made him a more
effective principal in the Boston Public Schools.Here, Henderson discusses his experiences, the lessons he's
learned, and how including...
Now a new study has found that highly
effective principals raise the achievement of a typical student in their schools by between 0.05 and 0.21 standard deviations, the equivalent of between two and seven months of additional
learning each school year.
Alexandria, Va. (Oct. 18, 2016)-- The National School Boards Association (NSBA) and the National Association of Secondary School
Principals (NASSP), in partnership with the
Learning First Alliance's Get it Right campaign, have developed a communications toolkit to support school leaders and educators» efforts to prepare high school students for success after graduation through
effective community engagement.
The School
Principal as Leader: Guiding Schools to Better Teaching and
Learning www.wallacefoundation.org/knowledge-center/pages/the-school-
principal-as-leader-guiding-schools-to-better-teaching-and-
learning.aspx This Wallace Perspective is a summary of a decade of research, identifying what
effective school
principals do and describing five key practices that are characteristic of those leaders.
Principal self - efficacy and
effective teaching and
learning environments.
The
effective principal: Instructional leadership for high quality
learning.
NAESP also has released an updated
principal competency guide: Leading Pre-K — 3 Learning Communities: Competencies for Effective Principal
principal competency guide: Leading Pre-K — 3
Learning Communities: Competencies for
Effective Principal Principal Practice.
The professional development of
principals should match the same expectations of classrooms: increased rigor and interaction among peers for more
effective learning.
Dr. Paul Manna, a recognized scholar of education and author of the new Wallace Foundation Report, Developing Excellent School
Principals to Advance Teaching and Learning: Considerations for State Policy, joins the conversation to discuss policy levers available to states to promote effective p
Principals to Advance Teaching and
Learning: Considerations for State Policy, joins the conversation to discuss policy levers available to states to promote
effective principalsprincipals.
Highly influential school effectiveness studies120 asserted that
effective schools are characterized by an climate or culture oriented toward
learning, as expressed in high achievement standards and expectations of students, an emphasis on basic skills, a high level of involvement in decision making and professionalism among teachers, cohesiveness, clear policies on matters such as homework and student behaviors, and so on.121 All this implied changes in the
principal «s role.
Whether titled Dean, Assistant School Leader, Coach, or AP, the most successful Assistant
Principals are highly
effective instructional leaders who are ready to foster and support more student and adult relationships, while deepening
learning and driving school culture.
Supporting
Principal Leadership for Pre-K — Third Grade Learning Communities addresses ways to enhance SEA and LEA leadership capacity for building P -3 communities, cultivate standards of effective practice for P - 3 principals and related leaders, develop practical implementation strategies as described by an elementary school principal and state education leaders, and consider implications for state and local policymakers, technical assistance and professional developmental providers, and higher e
Principal Leadership for Pre-K — Third Grade
Learning Communities addresses ways to enhance SEA and LEA leadership capacity for building P -3 communities, cultivate standards of
effective practice for P - 3
principals and related leaders, develop practical implementation strategies as described by an elementary school
principal and state education leaders, and consider implications for state and local policymakers, technical assistance and professional developmental providers, and higher e
principal and state education leaders, and consider implications for state and local policymakers, technical assistance and professional developmental providers, and higher education.
How does a
principal bring
effective practices to scale in a school, creating the environment of collective responsibility and shared leadership that increases student
learning?
She founded and was
principal of a school for children with special needs in Singapore, and later founded and served as Executive Director of Live and
Learn, the largest educational consulting firm in Singapore, an organization dedicated to training and supporting teachers to provide
effective inclusion services.
According to The Wallace Foundation's 2013 report The School
Principal as Leader: Guiding Schools to Better Teaching and
Learning,
effective principals consistently implement five key practices.
To
learn more about Leading for
Effective Teaching: Toolkit for Supporting
Principal Success, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, visit Leading for
Effective Teaching
Center Director Steve Tozer offers a reminder into the leaders» critical roles: The single most
effective way to improve student
learning is a skilled
principal, he tells Cleveland's The Plain Dealer.
And federal efforts such as Race to the Top are emphasizing the importance of
effective principals in boosting teaching and
learning.
An
effective principal also makes sure that notion of academic success for all gets picked up by the faculty and underpins what researchers at the University of Washington describe as a schoolwide
learning improvement agenda that focuses on goals for student progress.7 One middle school teacher described what adopting the vision meant for her.
Through all this work, we have
learned a great deal about the nature of the school
principal's role, what makes for an
effective principal and how to tie
principal effectiveness to improved student achievement.
Effective principals ensure that their schools allow both adults and children to put
learning at the center of their daily activities.
Research behind VAL - ED (the Vanderbilt Assessment of Leadership in Education tool to assess
principal performance, developed by researchers at Vanderbilt University) suggests that there are six key steps - or «processes» - that the
effective principal takes when carrying out his or her most important leadership responsibilities: planning, implementing, supporting, advocating, communicating and monitoring.40 The school leader pressing for high academic standards would, for example, map out rigorous targets for improvements in
learning (planning), get the faculty on board to do what's necessary to meet those targets (implementing), encourage students and teachers in meeting the goals (supporting), challenge low expectations and low district funding for students with special needs (advocating), make sure families are aware of the
learning goals (communicating), and keep on top of test results (monitoring).41
To help district leaders hire the most
effective principals, the research consortium set out to determine how to predict which
principal candidates will have the greatest impact on student
learning.
In Mississippi there is an interest among superintendents,
principals, and research and education faculty to gain a clearer understanding of Deeper
Learning — the mastery of rigorous core academic content; critical thinking and problem solving; teamwork and collaboration; effective communication; learning how to learn; and cultivation of an academic
Learning — the mastery of rigorous core academic content; critical thinking and problem solving; teamwork and collaboration;
effective communication;
learning how to learn; and cultivation of an academic
learning how to
learn; and cultivation of an academic mindset.
The expansion of
learning time can serve as one
effective vehicle to modernize our schools because it allows teachers,
principals, community organizations and leaders, and parents to build multiple curriculums to best educate our children to succeed in the 21st century.
Public Agenda reported in 2006 that only 20 percent of superintendents and 17 percent of
principals thought linking rewards or sanctions to student
learning would be a «very
effective» way to improve teacher quality.
More recently, the Wallace Foundation has determined that
effective principals are «leaders of
learning» with five key responsibilities within their schools:
Effective programs provide
principals an opportunity to
learn by practicing aspects of the daily tasks of the principalship, such as
learning to listen to and include teachers in school - site decision - making.
Programs and strategies designed to improve
principals» ability to include teachers in decision making, foster positive school cultures, and create
learning communities are particularly
effective.
Research indicates that
effective principals have the skills to organize their schools to support teachers and set the stage for powerful instruction by promoting positive
learning conditions and creating supports for instructional practices known to be
effective.