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The District Leadership Challenge: Empowering Principals to Improve Teaching and Learning
The District Leadership Challenge: Empowering Principals to Improve Teaching and Learning
(July 2009) The Southern Regional Education Board offers school districts seven ways to improve the working conditions of principals so that they can better support learning.
Leading Change Handbook: Concepts and Tools
Leading Change Handbook: Concepts and Tools
(June 2009) A guidebook with six field-tested tools to help leaders carry out and sustain needed institutional change.
Strong Leaders Strong Schools: 2008 State Laws
Strong Leaders Strong Schools: 2008 State Laws
(June 2009) This second annual roundup by the National Conference of State Legislatures summarizes state laws enacted during the 2008 legislative sessions related to strengthening school leadership.
Assessing the Effectiveness of School Leaders:New Directions and New Processes
Assessing the Effectiveness of School Leaders: New Directions and New Processes
(March 2009) This Wallace Perspective describes the elements of a new direction in leader assessment and introduces several newly-developed processes being tested.
Improving Leadership for Learning: Stories from the Field
Improving Leadership for Learning: Stories from the Field
A collection of five journalistic accounts about how states and districts from New Mexico to Atlanta are using a range of strategies to improve education leadership.
Leading for Change: New Training Opportunities for Education's Executives
Leading for Change: New Training Opportunities for Education's Executives
(February 2009) This “Story from the Field” profiles two unusual executive training programs at Harvard and the University of Virginia that bring together state and district leaders to improve their practices and focus more squarely on student learning.
SREB Leadership Curriculum Modules: Professional Learning Framework and Module Summaries
SREB Leadership Curriculum Modules: Professional Learning Framework and Module Summaries
(November 2008) This newly-updated guide summarizes 19 innovative training modules developed by the Southern Regional Education Board with Wallace’s support for use in school leadership preparation programs in universities, districts and academies.
Vanderbilt Assessment of Leadership in Education: Technical Manual 1.0
Vanderbilt Assessment of Leadership in Education: Technical Manual 1.0
(November 2008) This report includes the conceptual framework and results of national field testing of VAL-ED, a new high-quality tool for assessing the performance of school principals as leaders of learning.
Leadership and Learning: A Hechinger Institute Primer for Journalists
Leadership and Learning: A Hechinger Institute Primer for Journalists
(September 2008) A new handbook offers education reporters practical tips on how to get a better handle on the critical role school leadership plays in the everyday stories they cover.
Becoming a Leader: Preparing Principals for Today’s Schools
Becoming a Leader: Preparing Principals for Today’s Schools
(June 2008) Drawing on new research and lessons from current efforts by states and districts, this Wallace Perspective offers a range of steps to reimagine principal training and address longstanding weaknesses.
Educational Leadership Policy Standards: ISLLC 2008
Educational Leadership Policy Standards: ISLLC 2008
(June 2008) The 10-year-old education leadership standards in use in more than 40 states have been revised to reflect new knowledge and lessons learned about effective school leadership and the policies needed to support it. This report describes the revised “ISLLC” standards and how they can help leaders meet the growing expectations of their jobs.
Strong Leaders Strong Schools: 2007 State Laws
Strong Leaders Strong Schools: 2007 State Laws
(April 2008) A roundup by the National Conference of State Legislatures documents the range of state lawmaking in 2007 aimed at recruiting, training and supporting high-quality school leaders. A companion brief focuses specifically on what states can do to strengthen leader preparation.
An Initiative to Help Principals Focus on Instruction
Out of the Office and Into the Classroom: An Initiative to Help Principals Focus on Instruction
(January 2008) For school principals under pressure to improve instruction, time is often the scarcest commodity. This article shows how a new position, the School Administration Manager, is being tested with Wallace support in nine states as a promising new way to free principals to concentrate much more time on teaching and learning.
A Bridge to School Reform
Education Leadership: A Bridge to School Reform
(December 2007) Comments by Linda Darling-Hammond, Kati Haycock, Richard Colvin and Wallace President M. Christine DeVita on the critical importance of school leadership, and how states and districts are improving it, are featured in this special report on the Foundation’s recent national education conference.
Stories from the Field - Making State Accountability Count: How New Mexico Supports Principals with Data Tools
Making State Accountability Count: How New Mexico Supports Principals with Data Tools
(November 2007) For principals to meet tough state mandates, the right data in useful form is a must to improve instruction and chart student progress. This article vividly describes how New Mexico is taking steps to supply more useful information to its school and district leaders. 
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