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Download full textJulie Fitz; Stephanie Levin; Marjorie E. Wechsler – Learning Policy Institute, 2024
California has a notable history of investing in educational leaders' professional learning. In 1983, the state launched the California School Leadership Academy (CSLA), which it funded until the academy was discontinued due to statewide budget cuts in 2003. Research showed that CSLA was a source of high-quality professional development. In 2019,…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Elementary Secondary Education, Preschool Education, Administrator Education
Jackson, Stephen; Remer, Casey – Hunt Institute, 2014
Teachers have the greatest school-based effect on the achievement of any child in their classrooms, but highly effective principals can positively affect the achievement of every student in their schools. The difference between a highly effective principal and an average one is equal to two-to-seven months of extra learning per year for each child…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Leadership Qualities, Leadership Effectiveness, Educational Improvement
Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning, 2009
The link among the quality of principals, caliber of teaching, and levels of student achievement is a tight one. School leadership is a key factor in the recruitment and retention of quality teachers; teaching quality, in turn, profoundly influences improvements in student learning and achievement. Yet despite their central role in this equation,…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Principals, Administrator Education, Leadership Training
Husen, Peter M. – 1990
An innovative principal preparation program was created at the University of Tennessee--Knoxville. The program was built around 19 parameters and based upon three theoretical domains in administration: organization (defines managerial role), human dimension (defines human relations role), and individual relationship with other two dimensions…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrator Qualifications, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Hess, Fritz – American School Board Journal, 1988
To ensure the quality of school leadership in the future requires the following: (1) improving financial incentives; (2) strengthening administrator training programs; and (3) raising certification requirements. (MLF)
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrators, Aging in Academia, Certification
Steller, Arthur W. – Updating School Board Policies, 1984
With 50 percent of all principals planning to retire in the 1980's, hiring good principals should be a matter of planning rather than chance. This pamphlet notes the strategies that can help to ensure that a district hires effective educational leaders as principals. Developing effective job descriptions and interviewing techniques, though…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Education, Administrator Selection, Assessment Centers (Personnel)
Thomson, Scott D., Ed. – 1992
The new age of education shows an increasing focus on human development through family involvement, community learning resources, community social service, staff development, involvement, technology, learning climate, and motivation/reward systems. Integration of these areas calls for skills that are not traditionally taught to school leaders.…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrator Effectiveness, Administrator Qualifications, Administrator Role
National Commission for the Principalship, Fairfax, VA. – 1990
A framework for the professional certification and preparation of principals is developed in this report. Contents include discussions of the context of school leadership, implications for school leaders, expanded leadership roles, suggestions for preparation programs, and principals' domains. Based on the premise that principal preparation…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrator Effectiveness, Administrator Qualifications, Administrator Role
Georgia Professional Standards Commission, Atlanta. – 1984
The views of Georgia school superintendents on leadership preparation and the role of principals are examined to determine future directions and standards for preparing public educational leaders in the state. Data were collected from 182 (97 percent) of the state's total of 187 superintendents. In the first part of the paper, Georgia…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Education, Administrator Evaluation
Bottoms, Gene; O'Neill, Kathy; Fry, Betty; Hill, David – 2003
This report defines six strategies that state and district leaders can employ to secure an ample supply of highly qualified school principals. The six strategies were drawn from research and direct experience in helping schools, universities, and state agencies rethink and redesign educational leadership programs. The six strategies are as…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Education, Administrator Qualifications
Montgomerie, Craig; And Others – 1991
This document reports on a study on educational leadership training opportunities and needs in Alberta, Canada. After an overview of study objectives and methodology, a detailed review of the literature on leadership is presented, including various leadership and educational leadership definitions and information on preservice preparation and…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, College Programs, Courses, Educational Opportunities
Murphy, Joseph – 1990
Focusing on the call for changes in school administration, this document reviews the nature of the educational reform movement in the 1980s before describing four trends that have fueled reform proposals. Trends described include general conditions such as the larger reform debate and the new conceptions of the appropriate organizational structure…
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Administrator Education, Administrator Qualifications, Administrator Responsibility
Miller, Edythe A. – 1987
The ideas, approaches, and issues guiding the efforts at principal reform are described in the following areas: (1) generic management skills or instructional leadership; (2) teaching experience as a requirement for the principalship; (3) restructuring principal preparation programs; (4) evaluating competency and proficiency; and (5) selection…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrator Evaluation, Administrator Role, Administrator Selection
Hess, Frederick M. – 2003
While considerable attention is paid to training and development for teachers, not enough is paid to the training of educational leaders, this paper contends. The aim of this paper is to provide an analytical groundwork and comprehensive direction for reform of educational leadership training to help policymakers design specific solutions to…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrator Qualifications, Administrator Selection, Beginning Principals
