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The "Learning from Leadership" Study: A Video Commentary on the Report

Learning from Leadership: Investigating the Links to Improved Student Learning is the largest in-depth study of school leadership to date.

Report co-author Kyla Wahlstrom, director of the Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement at the U. of Minnesota

Report co-author Kyla Wahlstrom, director of the Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement at the University of Minnesota, discusses:

The design and breadth of the research
(1 minute)
The study's major findings (2 minutes)
Teacher professional learning communities

What they are (1 minute)
Do's and don'ts (2 minutes)

Data:

How schools often fumble use of data (1 minute)
What effective data use looks like (2 minutes)

The problem of high principal turnover (2 minutes)

Wallace’s director of research and evaluation, Edward Pauly, discusses why the foundation commissioned the research and some important implications of the findings.
(2 minutes)