Not exact matches
«
As a
leader... your
principal job is to create an operating environment where others can do
great things.»
As a school
leader or
principal, you can often focus more time on improving teaching and learning beyond one classroom, giving others
greater confidence and impact.
With that being said, I have spent the last few years focusing a
great deal on my work
as an instructional
leader within my role
as school - based
principal, and now
as division
principal.
There are
great outfits today (examples include Teach For America, the Relay Graduate School of Education, New
Leaders for New Schools, and the Broad Fellows program) that assist talented individuals who want to work in education to gain entry — as teachers, principals, leaders, and so on — without requiring them to pass through all the traditional certification
Leaders for New Schools, and the Broad Fellows program) that assist talented individuals who want to work in education to gain entry —
as teachers,
principals,
leaders, and so on — without requiring them to pass through all the traditional certification
leaders, and so on — without requiring them to pass through all the traditional certification hoops.
At this year's Council of the
Great City Schools Fall Conference in Milwaukee, Wis., CEL Associate Directors Max Silverman and June Rimmer joined by Shelby County Schools Instructional Leadership Director Reggie Jackson presented CEL's partnership work around defining and improving the role of
principal supervisors in developing
principals as instructional
leaders.
The
Great Teachers and
Leaders Act (known by many
as Senate Bill 191) and the Innovation Schools Act have allowed Colorado school districts to be at the forefront of teacher and
principal evaluation and to pursue new staffing and learning models.
The premise that
great schools have
great leaders can lead to a vision of the
principal as a heroic
leader working alone to save the day.
As an innovative educator and former school
principal, CT3 associate William Sprankles has seen firsthand how
great leaders maximize their summer preparation time.
We are also proud that we were able to educate more Californians about the Vergara case through TEACHED interactive screening events, introducing audiences to Students Matter lawyer Joshua Lipschitz,
great teachers who explain the policies in question in our short film The Blame Game: Teachers Speak Out, and other courageous
leaders like
principal Bill Kappenhagen, who became a witness in the case
as a result of participating in TEACHED screenings (go Bill!).
«
Principals and district
leaders have the most influence on decisions in all schools; however, they do not lose influence
as others gain influence,» the authors write.19 Indeed, although «higher - performing schools awarded
greater influence to most stakeholders... little changed in these schools» overall hierarchical structure.
Also,
great teachers will not go to a troubled school without a
great leader as principal.
For example, they can be more intentional about selecting and training
principals who can serve
as «turnaround»
leaders, redeploy the most talented teachers and
leaders to targeted schools, and provide
principals with the flexibility to make necessary staff changes (Player, Hambrick Hitt, & Robinson, 2014; Council of the
Great City Schools, 2015).
Driven by a passion to have a
greater impact
as an educational
leader, Tracy launched her administrative career
as an elementary
principal in 1994 and didn't look back.
He aspires to be the same kind of
leader as his own elementary school
principal — a
leader who understood that a student's circumstances outside of school should not impact their ability to receive a
great education.
In this era of high - stakes accountability, the pressure has never been
greater for
principals to excel also
as instructional
leaders.
While some
leaders opt for transformational leadership or turning good organizations into
great ones, other personalities are better suited for distributive leadership, or the sharing of responsibility among a few people such
as an assistant
principal or outstanding teacher.
to enhance the image of the middle school
principal as an educational
leader and to promote
greater recognition of the professional skill and performance demanded by the position,
As a result of the meetings, charter school
leaders now have access to the district's email system, speeding up communication with the district, charter school
principals meet regularly with district staff members to keep updated on accountability requirements, and the paperwork and administrative processes have become more streamlined for
greater efficiency.
To enhance the image of the elementary and middle school
principal as an educational
leader and to promote
greater recognition of the professional skill and performance demanded by the position
Now,
as they look at their budgets, they can ask, given the negative impact the lack of a strong school
leader has on student learning, «Can we afford NOT to spend a mere.4 % of our budget to develop a pipeline of
great principals?»
Spending 16 years in schools, he said, gives him an understanding of how hard it is to be a teacher or a
principal and has «allowed me to make
great decisions
as a district
leader.»
Keedy (1999) indicated that the teacher
leader who was selected by the school
principal received
greater support from her school administrator than the other teacher
leader, and that this support was one of the factors that contributed to her effectiveness
as a facilitator.
The heavy backing of charter schools that refer to Teach for America
as «
great outfits today» that «assist talented individuals who want to work in education to gain entry —
as teachers,
principals,
leaders, and so on — without requiring them to pass through all the traditional certification hoops».