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Direct linkOrr, Margaret Terry; Hollingworth, Liz – School Leadership & Management, 2018
The Performance Assessment for Leaders (PAL) is a four-task evaluation system designed to improve the quality of initial school leaders in Massachusetts by evaluating candidate readiness using a rigorous, standard assessment system. By design, it is signalling leadership quality expectations to preparation programmes. Through two years of survey…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Educational Administration, Leadership Qualities, Readiness
Orr, Margaret Terry; Orphanos, Stelios – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2011
Purpose: This study attempted to determine the influence of exemplary leadership preparation on what principals learn about leadership, their use of effective leadership practices, and how their practices influence school improvement and the school's learning climate. The authors also investigated how the frequency of effective leadership…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Graduate Study, Context Effect, Principals
Orr, Margaret Terry – Stanford Educational Leadership Institute, 2007
This paper measures effective leadership preparation and assesses its relationship to what principals learn about leadership, their leadership practices, and school improvement progress and improved school climate (particularly for academic press and continuous improvement). This paper draws on survey research conducted in 2005 with 125 principals…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Leadership Effectiveness, Educational Change, Instructional Leadership
Darling-Hammond, Linda; LaPointe, Michelle; Meyerson, Debra; Orr, Margaret Terry – Stanford Educational Leadership Institute, 2007
Contemporary school administrators play a daunting array of roles. They must be educational visionaries and change agents, instructional leaders, curriculum and assessment experts, budget analysts, facility managers, special program administrators, and community builders. New expectations for schools--that they successfully teach a broad range of…
Descriptors: Expertise, Change Agents, Organizational Change, Instructional Leadership
Orr, Margaret Terry – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2007
Given the lack of preparation incoming school district superintendents receive and the many challenges they face, this article reviews the approach of the few existing programs for new superintendents and describes the leadership development strategies that would be beneficial. With this background, the article presents the findings from an…
Descriptors: Seminars, Action Research, Pilot Projects, Learning Strategies
Download full textOrr, Margaret Terry – Journal of Research on Leadership Education, 2006
Leadership education has become the public education reform strategy of the new century. Spotlighting leadership education presumes that improved leadership preparation and development will yield better leadership, management, and organizational practices which, in turn, will improve teaching, student learning and student performance in schools…
Descriptors: Evidence, Research and Development, Educational Research, Educational Administration
Orr, Margaret Terry – Stanford Educational Leadership Institute, 2006
This paper is based on a cross-sectional survey comparison of preparation experiences and outcomes using a sample of principals who completed one of five innovative leadership preparation programs between 2000-2005 and a national comparison sample of principals. The primary questions are: (1) How do innovatively-prepared principals and other…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Leadership Effectiveness, Principals, School Administration
