What makes for an effective principal, and how can effectiveness be measured? Thirty states have recently passed legislation to improve principal evaluation systems and are now grappling with these questions. New legislation recognizes that leadership is the second most influential factor in student achievement, after classroom teaching, but there is a lack of agreement about how principal evaluation systems can be designed to be fair, supportive, and legally defensible.
Now, after years of study, researchers at American Institutes for Research (AIR) and the National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality (TQ Center) have developed a cutting-edge, free resource for principal design.
The online resource, Practical Guide to Designing Comprehensive Principal Evaluation Systems: A Tool to Assist in the Development of Principal Evaluation Systems, begins by comparing different models in use in districts and states across the country (state-level, elective state-level, and district systems with required parameters). The authors then explain eight components that must be in place to have an effective principal evaluation system. These components are:
1a) Specifying evaluation system goals
1b) Defining principal effectiveness and establishing standards
2) Securing and sustaining stakeholder investment and cultivating a strategic communication plan
3) Selecting measures
4) Determining the structure of the system
5) Selecting and training evaluators
6) Ensuring data integrity and transparency
7) Using evaluation results
8) Evaluating the system
Online resources include interactive guides and additional resources to support development of principal evaluation systems.
To view these resources, please visit http://www.tqsource.org/PracticalGuidePrincipals/
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