Sentences with phrase «principal effects on student learning»

While the analysis by Waters, Marzano and McNulty produced interesting data, extrapolations from their estimates to principal effects on student learning in real - world conditions must be made with considerable caution.

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Despite the smaller (i.e., than for teachers and teaching), yet still significant measured effects on student learning for school - based factors beyond the classroom — Hattie has calculated an effect size of 0.39 for principals / school leaders [3]-- research evidence has confirmed that «school leaders can play major roles in creating the conditions in which teachers can teach effectively and students can learn».

Texas also did not have a recommended principal evaluation system, despite findings that school leaders are responsible for as much as 25 percent of the total school effect on student learning [1].

Until recently, Texas did not have a recommended principal evaluation system, despite findings that school leaders are responsible for as much as 25 percent of the total school effect on student learning (Liethwood, Louis, Anderson, & Walhstrom, 2004).

The multiple linkages model asserts a prominent role for «situational variables» — the size of the work group, organizational policies and procedures, the prior training and experience of members — which mediate what the leader is able to do.131 For example, the size of the school will have a significant effect on how well teachers know other teachers; it also will affect the way in which teachers form workgroups or departments to talk about their work.132 The fragmented nature of professional communities, rather than size per se, becomes a constraint on how principals try to organize professional communities to focus on instruction and student learning.

Districts that help their principals feel more efficacious about their school improvement work have positive effects on school conditions and student learning.

When Ms. Reed took the reins of the school system in 2005 after earning her doctorate, one of the first actions she took was to give teachers and principals training on the effects of poverty on children so that they could better understand some of the challenges their students face in learning.

In a new book, Sent to the Principal: Students Talk About Making High Schools Better (Next Generation Press, May 2005), Cushman shares their insights on a range of issues that exert a largely unnoticed effect on how they learn and thrive.

Finally, other studies on the impact of selected principal preparation programs have found that these programs may have a positive but modest effect on student learning.

Yes, let's lead together, but let's also hire principals who know instruction well and have proven themselves in the classroom to have a positive effect on student learning.

Support principals in actively participating in collegial discussions around instruction and its effects on student learning?

Working as a high school principal in 1995 he stumbled across research about the effects of family engagement on student learning and was immediately convinced that this was the missing ingredient in helping all children learn.

Studies by Macmillan (2000) and Fink & Brayman (2006) demonstrate the devastating effects of rapid principal succession, especially on initiatives intended to increase student learning.