High Schools That Work

High Schools That Work

Good Principals Aren't Born - They're Mentored: Are We Investing Enough to Get the School Leaders We Need?

by Cheryl Gray, Betty Fry, Gene Bottoms and Kathy O'Neill

Good Principals Aren't Born - They're Mentored draws on survey data from a sample of seasoned principal mentors who have guided interns in university-based principal preparation programs in the SREB region. This report describes the present condition of mentoring for aspiring school leaders and lays out a course of action for policy-makers and the leaders of universities and school districts to ensure that every beginning principal comes to the job fully prepared to make a difference in teaching and learning. This report also describes the necessary investments required to create internships that can help aspiring school principals become transformational school leaders.

(07V05); 96 pages; 2007; $7.50; $5 each for 10 or more

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