Good Principals Are the Key to Successful Schools: Six Strategies to Prepare More Good Principals

By Kathy O'Neill, Betty Fry, David Hill and Gene Bottoms

SREB recognizes that effective leaders are essential if all students are to achieve at high levels. The SREB leadership goal is very ambitious: “Every school has leadership that results in improved student performance - and leadership begins with an effective principal.” This report defines six strategies that state and local leaders can use to achieve that goal: 1) single out high-performers; 2) recalibrate preparation programs; 3) emphasize real-world training; 4) link principal licensure to performance; 5) move accomplished teachers into school leadership positions; and 6) use state academies to cultivate leadership teams in middle-tier schools.

Keywords: field-based learning, principal preparation, alternative licensure

(03V03) Price: $3 each/$1.50 each for 10 or more; 32 pages

Goal that it reflects:  9. Every school has leadership that results in improved student performance - and leadership begins with an effective principal.

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