PK-12 Principal Leadership

Six case studies also provide an in-depth look at how ambitious leaders positioned their schools and students for success, covering topics ranging from vision-setting and curriculum selection to coaching and professional development that supported teachers in making the leap to higher standards.

Describes how a school district can produce a large and steady supply of top-notch school principals and support their effective supervision.

Describes how six districts have developed data systems to help them better train, hire and support school principals.

Fourth in a Wallace Foundation series of reports examines six districts’ efforts to establish an approach to principal performance evaluation aimed at helping school leaders improve.

This report describes examples of actions that school principals have taken in trying to lead turnaround.

Explains how educational leaders can cultivate global competence in students and school staff so that each child is prepared for college, career, and citizenship in our diverse, interconnected world.

Compiles research describing the priorities of effective principals and the measured impact of principal leadership on student learning.

Series of reports describes the evolution of the SAM process, an approach to helping principals focus on teaching in classrooms.

Provides a set of standards for principal supervisors suggests that these managers focus on developing the effectiveness of principals rather than overseeing their compliance with regulations.

Helps to frame the role of the principal in impacting preK pedagogy and offers some insight into how programs are distributing leadership functions to various personnel.

Data from the RAND Corporation's web-based American Educator Panels was used to gather nationally representative evidence of whether perceptions of school leadership practices vary by educator position.

Describes how two school districts reshape the job of the principal supervisor to focus on supporting principals.

Imparts new information about the current education climate; the challenges veteran, early career, and assistant principals face; the students they serve; and the conditions under which they work.

This report is a follow-up to the 2014 evaluation of New Leaders' Aspiring Principals program. Focusing on the revised program, which was first implemented in 2012, the authors present evidence of the effectiveness of the revised Aspiring Principals program and share lessons that can inform principal-preparation policy and practice.

Provides a collection of RAND research on the topic of Principals.

Explores how principals’ leadership activities changed during two intervals—2003 to 2007 and 1995 to 1999—and how those changes were related to student achievement.

Summarizes a decade of foundation research and work in school leadership that identifies what effective school principals do.

Reports on survey findings that school principals generally receive some on-the-job supports, but not a full trio of supervision, mentoring and professional development.

U.S. Department of Education Report examines how principals’ current education, experience, and compensation compares with that of earlier decades and whether today’s characteristics and changes over time differ between public and private school principals.

This brief explores the present status of principal preparation and licensure; the findings emphasize the urgency to enhance the capacity of principals to value high quality early childhood programs and provide effective instructional leadership for early learning and teaching.

Mission is to conduct in-depth research that leads to new ideas for solving problems facing society at the local, national and global level.

Nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology.

Only ongoing assessment of what U.S. students know and can do in different subjects.

Nation's largest professional employee organization committed to advancing the cause of public education.

A nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decision making through research and analysis. Research includes K-12 assessment and accountability, school reform, teachers and teaching, higher education, military education and training, worker training, and substance-abuse prevention in schools.

Agency of the federal government that establishes policy for, administers, and coordinates most federal assistance to education.

Responsible for coordinating international cooperation in education, science, culture and communication.

Works nationally to improve learning and enrichment for disadvantaged children and foster the vitality of the arts for everyone.