Sentences with phrase «especially urban principals»

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«I finally had the time to read,» Marshall says, especially when he started traveling back and forth to New York, where he was recruiting and coaching urban principals for the nonprofit New Leaders for New Schools.

And far too many school systems, especially urban districts with the most urgent need for dynamic competence in this crucial role, haven't yet figured out the best way to find the strongest candidates in the land and induce them to move into the principal's office.

In 2010, Wallace launched the Principal Pipeline Initiative, a six - year investment to help six urban school districts develop a much larger corps of effective school principals and to determine whether this boosts student achievement districtwide, especially in the highest needs schools.

The question the initiative seeks to answer is: «If an urban district and its principal training programs provide large numbers of talented, aspiring principals with the right training and on - the - job evaluation and support, will the result be a pipeline of principals who can improve teaching and student achievement district - wide, especially in schools with the greatest needs?»

However, recruiting, selecting, and hiring highly effective principals is difficult, especially in urban districts.

Urban schools: In urban schools especially, principals may need to focus on additional qualities beyond effectiveness when placing teachers where they are needed Urban schools: In urban schools especially, principals may need to focus on additional qualities beyond effectiveness when placing teachers where they are needed urban schools especially, principals may need to focus on additional qualities beyond effectiveness when placing teachers where they are needed most.

The goal is to test the following: If an urban district, and its principal training programs, provide a large number of talented aspiring principals with the right pre-service training and on - the - job support, the result will be a pipeline of principals able to improve teacher quality and student achievement, especially in schools with the greatest needs.