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Triangulating Principal Effectiveness How Perspectives of Parents, Teachers, and Assistant Principals Identify the Central Importance of Managerial Skills
Jason A. Grissom,Susanna Loeb +1 more
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In this paper, the authors identified specific skills that principals need to promote school success, including organizational management skills as a key complement to the work of supporting curriculum and instruction, using survey responses from principals, assistant principals, teachers and parents.Abstract:
While the importance of effective principals is undisputed, few studies have identified specific skills that principals need to promote school success. This study draws on unique data combining survey responses from principals, assistant principals, teachers, and parents with rich administrative data to determine which principal skills correlate most highly with school outcomes. Factor analysis of a 42-item task inventory distinguishes five skill categories, yet only one of them, the principals’ Organization Management skills, consistently predicts student achievement growth and other success measures. Analysis of evaluations of principals by assistant principals supports this central result. The analysis argues for a broad view of principal leadership that includes organizational management skills as a key complement to the work of supporting curriculum and instruction.read more
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Handbook of Research on the Education of School Leaders
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the broad terrain of Leadership Preparation in education, and present a survey of research and development activities related to the preparation of school leaders, including the use of internships in preparing school leaders.
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기독교 사역과 Leadership
TL;DR: Coaching & Communicating for Performance Coaching and communicating for Performance is a highly interactive program that will give supervisors and managers the opportunity to build skills that will enable them to share expectations and set objectives for employees, provide constructive feedback, more effectively engage in learning conversations, and coaching opportunities as mentioned in this paper.
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Teachers, Schools, and Academic Achievement
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