What School Principals Need to Know About Curriculum and Instruction

Looks at what school leaders need to know about instructional practices, organizing a school for greater student learning, supporting teacher development, and balancing school improvement with non-instructional issues and emergencies

Preparing a New Breed of School Principals: It's Time for Action

Defines the challenge in preparing and developing effective school leaders and considers a number of changes for strengthening the certification, selection, and support of school leaders. Includes an action plan to improve school leadership

The Principal Internship: How Can We Get It Right?

Examines educational leadership degree programs in the SREB region. Focuses on the problems within internships, and provides ideas on how programs can be designed to produce good school leaders

Schools Can't Wait: Accelerating the Redesign of University Principal Preparation Programs

Reviews recent efforts by 22 universities to provide higher quality training programs for school leaders. Includes examples of effective redesign practices and outlines an action plan for implementing successful educational leadership initiatives

Good Principals Are the Key to Successful Schools: Six Strategies to Prepare More Good Principals

Defines strategies that state and local leaders can use to secure enough highly qualified principals. Draws from research and direct experiences in helping schools, universities, and state agencies rethink and redesign educational leadership programs

Good Principals Aren't Born -- They're Mentored: Are We Investing Enough to Get the School Leaders We Need?

Draws on survey data from a sample of experienced principal mentors who have guided interns in university-based principal preparation programs, and describes the present condition of mentoring for aspiring school leaders

Progress Being Made in Getting a Quality Leader in Every School

Reviews the progress made by the SREB states in improving their school leadership through redesigning the process of preparation and development of school principals. Describes promising practices being implemented, and offers practical guidance

Leadership Matters: Building Leadership Capacity

Explores strategies that school administrators employ in schools where student learning has improved. Outlines the key conditions for accelerating student achievement, and provides criteria for determining the quality of project-based learning

Are SREB States Making Progress? Tapping, Preparing and Licensing School Leaders Who Can Influence Student Achievement

Looks at the progress SREB states are making in developing systems to identify, prepare, and assess future school leaders

The District Leadership Challenge: Empowering Principals to Improve Teaching and Learning

Outlines strategies for district leaders to create a supportive environment and a collaborative working relationship with high school principals that encourage innovation and enable principals to lead effective school reform efforts