by Bob Rothman Improving school leadership is central to education improvement efforts. After teacher effectiveness, school leadership has the greatest in-school impact on student outcomes and is widely considered crucial to system reform. The 2015 Every Student Succeeds Act recognizes this and provides targeted funding to...
Cross-posted at Education Week. NCEE came to the conclusion almost 20 years ago that school leadership development is the most efficient driver of comprehensive school reform available. As the old saw has it, none of us had ever seen a great school led by an incompetent...
by Seng-Dao Keo The job of a principal in the United States has become increasingly complex, demanding, and lonely. Stress is high. Hours are long. Turnover is alarming. Internationally, we see a slightly different picture in the top performing systems, one in which the principalship is...