{"id":2749,"date":"2013-03-07T19:32:45","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T23:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coreeducationllc.com\/blog2\/?p=2749"},"modified":"2013-03-07T19:32:45","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T23:32:45","slug":"cultivating-great-principals-the-district-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coreeducationllc.com\/blog2\/cultivating-great-principals-the-district-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Cultivating Great Principals: The District Role"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"wf-logo-header\"<\/a>We know that principal leadership is crucial to success of schools and students, particularly urban ones, but the Wallace Foundation<\/a>\u2019s new report, Districts Matter<\/i>, adds that school districts can cultivate that strong leadership and \u201censure they have principals capable of boosting teaching and learning.\u201d The new report \u201cdraws on a decade of foundation research and work in school leadership to describe nine steps districts can take\u201d to improve their schools by finding and retaining the best principals. \u201cActions include everything from establishing selective hiring procedures to providing mentoring to novice leaders.\u201d<\/p>\n

From the executive summary of the report:<\/p>\n

The school district <\/i>profoundly shapes the destinies of its principals: how they are trained, hired, mentored, evaluated and developed on the job. Yet until recently, many educators and policymakers overlooked the unique role districts can play to help principals shoulder their central responsibility: improving teaching and learning.<\/i><\/p>\n

Armed with new evidence about the importance of school leadership and how it can best be developed, a growing number of large districts are seeking to cultivate first-rate principals for all their schools.<\/i><\/p>\n

Doing so requires that they carry out two big tasks.<\/i><\/p>\n

First, build a large corps of well-qualified candidates for the principalship:<\/i><\/p>\n