Improving a struggling school’s climate can be both the foundation of long-term school improvement and a source of immediate, visible progress for a new principal. The tricky part for many principals, ...

High-flying school systems have something in common when it comes to recruiting, training, and deploying school leaders: they take a systematic approach, according to a new study by the National ...

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Assistant principals and principals are integral members of our schools, from kindergarten through 12th grade. Among their many roles, these educational leaders develop academic policies, liaise with ...

The timing couldn’t be worse. In a year where the state funding for a program to train school principals disappears, there is a great demand for school principals. The state gave $800,000 two years ...

Gwinnett County Public Schools has been using a program to turn teachers into principals for over a decade. Now, a national study confirms that’s effective in increasing students’ performance. The ...

Classes will soon be in session for principal wannabes in the Houston area. A $3 million grant from the Houston Endowment will allow up to 30 aspiring principals to get the hands-on training they need ...

School principals matter. Any parent who has sat in on a PTA meeting will tell you that. So will researchers. The authors of the Wallace Foundation's landmark 2004 report, "How Leadership Influences ...

Cities across America have long hunted for tougher, better-trained principals to turn around struggling schools full of impoverished children. A major university and an influential group of educators ...

When Schools Chancellor Joel Klein and Mayor Michael Bloomberg began to reshape city schools, the need for new leadership was acute: projections in 2004 showed that 40 percent of city principals would ...

Assemblymen Darrell Steinberg, D- Sacramento, introduced Friday AB 75, a bill to provide $15 million to train 5,000 principals and vice principals per year in school leadership skills. “The difference ...

AT THE SCHOOL. THE WORKDAY FOR A HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPAL AND ASSISTANT TRACK COACH IS LONG. NATE BURNS ARRIVES AT SCHOOL AROUND 6:30 A.M., AND BEST CASE, HE’S THERE UNTIL 430, BUT OFTEN MUCH LATER. AND ...