Sentences with phrase «to improve school leadership»

When 11 initiatives aimed at improving school leadership were outlined in these pages at the beginning of 2000, I, like many others, welcomed the news.

This resource for states focuses on improving school leadership and the principal pipeline by tracking the right data and planning strategically.

There is now clear evidence that strong school leadership is required to turn around low - performing schools and that improving school leadership leads to improved student learning.

Americans» emphasis on teacher effectiveness also highlights the need to improve school leadership in the field, said LeAnn M. Buntrock, the executive director of the University of Virginia's Darden / Curry Partnership for Leaders in Education.

Both the Distinguished Principals and National School Leadership Coaches will be trained and certified by NISL to provide training and coaching to other principals, helping improve school leadership across the state.

William and Mary professor Paul Manna discusses six policy levers to help improve school leadership and bolster principals

The Executive Leadership Program for Educators at Harvard University in association with The Wallace Foundation will emphasize midcareer development of teams of high - level education leaders that share responsibility for making changes in their organizations and across their states to broadly improve school leadership and its impact on student achievement.

For its part, LEE's regional director in Baltimore, Taylor Stewart, connects members to one another so they may identify common interests to pursue, such as improving school leadership.

A look at data systems to improve school leadership offers «hard - won insights» gathered from six school districts that are building these systems to assist in everything from principal hiring to principal training.

Support and improve school leadership with a new Leadership Institute and gold standard head teacher qualifications and training

by Bob Rothman Improving school leadership is central to education improvement efforts.

Pont, B, Nuseche, D & Moorman, H 2008, Improving school leadership Volume 1: Policy and practice, OECD Publications, France.

The six districts had already made significant strides in improving school leadership before joining the initiative, the report says, but embarked on the effort because of a persistent decrease in the size and quality of their applicant pools.

This report documents ways in which six districts are working to improve school leadership districtwide.

Principals from the District's traditional public schools and public charter schools will spend the next 11 months learning how to better manage their schools — working together — as part of a program aimed at improving school leadership across the city.

This report, the second in a series, discusses initial implementation results of Wallace's Principal Pipeline Initiative, a multi-year effort to improve school leadership in six urban school districts.

This summit provided an opportunity for school business managers and senior leaders to network and collaborate to come up with forward - thinking solutions to improve school leadership.

This summit will also provide an opportunity for school business managers and senior leaders to network and collaborate to come up with forward - thinking solutions to improve school leadership.

Working conditions and teacher retention: Several new initiatives aimed to improve school leadership, the ability of school leadership to recruit and retain effective teachers, the school learning environment, and teacher supports.

Improving school leadership is particularly important for poorly performing schools.

NISL designed the Executive Development Program to address the needs of districts as they strive to improve school leadership and to provide school leaders with opportunities to apply what they learn to real situations in their schools.

The emphasis on school leadership reflects provisions in the law that allow states to use funds for school improvement (Title I) and for improving educator effectiveness (Title II) to improve school leadership, as long as the interventions are evidence - based, according to criteria spelled out in the law.

In their plans, many of the states addressed strategies to improve school leadership.

Here are some books reviewed over the past year that can get you thinking about how to improve your school leadership.

Identified by local administrators for their efforts to boost teaching and learning, often under difficult circumstances, the principals come from districts receiving Wallace Foundation grants to improve school leadership.

The district has a long - standing commitment to improving school leadership.

Prince George's County Public Schools (PGCPS), which serves more than 130,000 students, has implemented a suite of practices designed to improve school leadership.

, Improving school leadership, Volume 2: Case studies on school leadership (pp. 37 - 67).

This expansion is a reflection of the growing recognition that improving school leadership is one of the most cost - efficient ways to improve student achievement at scale.

Paul Manna, author of a major Wallace Foundation report on considerations for state policymakers seeking to improve school leadership, discusses state policy and the principalship with other educators.

In five articles, education journalists detail how states and districts from New Mexico to Michigan are using a range of strategies to improve school leadership.

Improving school leadership at scale is impossible without effective training for existing principals as well — and the benefits reverberate throughout school systems:

An in - depth RAND evaluation describes payoffs and challenges as states and districts set out to collaborate more closely on policies to improve school leadership.

Improving School Leadership: The Promise of Cohesive Leadership Systems (2009) is an in - depth RAND evaluation describing payoffs and challenges as states and districts set out to collaborate more closely on policies to improve school leadership.

Wallace is funding the Learning Partners Program as part of the Principal Pipeline Initiative, a six - year effort in six districts to improve school leadership.

Under the new Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), states and districts have new opportunities to use federal funds to improve school leadership.

Improving school leadership is also a cost effective way to improve the education system as a whole because a single principal impacts dozens of teachers and thousands of students during their careers.

In late 2012, the Wallace Foundation, a philanthropic organization that supports efforts nationwide to improve school leadership, awarded AACTE a grant to serve as one of its communications partners for its Principal Pipeline Initiative.

The third in a series of reports details how six school districts are faring three years into a multi-year Wallace initiative to improve school leadership.

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) opens new possibilities for federal support of efforts to improve school leadership.

Improving school leadership: The promise of cohesive leadership systems (Commissioned by the Wallace Foundation).