Sentences with phrase «urban principals»

Questions designed to assess the 11 functions of star urban principals were then developed to assess this synthesis of research and practice.
Many urban principals face the challenge of reforming their schools and districts while simultaneously improving teaching and learning to enhance student achievement.
Experienced urban principals know that there are no easy answers when it comes to effective school leadership.
Principals, especially urban principals, have their work cut out for them.
One of the most successful urban principals I ever worked with asked teachers to come to him often with a problem combined with a suggested solution.
The results of these activities indicated that the behaviors star urban principals had identified the previous year were the same ones they identified a year later.
The question for current school principals posed by Baruti K. Kafele, an award - winning former urban principal in New Jersey: «Is my school a better school because I lead it?»
Since 2002, Kim has provided one - on - one coaching for principals, mostly in New York City in affiliation with New Leaders, a nonprofit that recruits, trains, and supports urban principals.
In collaboration with the Fairfield County Community Foundation, and the Bridgeport, Danbury, Norwalk and Stamford public school districts, the Center developed the USLF in 2008 as a response to identified needs to develop the next generation of urban principals.
«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.
Preparing the Next Generation of Urban School Leaders In an effort to deepen the pool of qualified urban principal candidates, the Institute for the Mentorship of Urban School Leaders at Lehigh University was established to give proven school leaders the training and support needed to be effective administrators.
Socializing leaders for student success: An exploration of how and why urban principals develop teachers.
Center faculty affiliates argue urban principals face a great moral imperative in navigating fiscal austerity.
The following two years, Castenzio served as the lead principal, as well as trained future urban principals, and started two new CfUT summer school sites at HOPE Christian School Prima and Sherman Park Lutheran School, respectively.
Three urban principals chronicle their efforts to turn around their low - performing schools and create sustainable leadership.
As a longtime educator who has spent four decades researching, teaching, and writing about instructional leadership, I decided to seek out several experienced urban principals who were willing to share their challenges and successes.
The three urban principals profiled are experienced dreamers and doers who persistently work on enlisting all their schools» resources to bring about improved student achievement.
Star urban principals in three great city school districts were identified: 27 in Houston, 18 in Milwaukee and 84 in Chicago.
The scores reflect the degree to which respondents» answers are closer to those made by star urban principals or to those made by failure principals to the same questions.
But as Michelle Rhee is discovering, such powers are unlikely to come to urban principals, at least not to the degree that Schaeffler enjoys at KIPP.
Empowerment through caring in an urban principal's practice with pupils.
The development of the HSPIQ questionnaire involved merging the knowledge and research base with the most effective practices of star urban principals.
The domains of the written knowledge base and the functions performed by the urban principals were then synthesized into 11 functions.
Empowerment through caring in an urban principal's practice with students.
In sum, the developmental approach followed here has yielded a questionnaire which synthesizes what the knowledge base indicates makes principals effective and what star urban principals themselves identify as explanations for their success.
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