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INFORMATION RESOURCES

Pennsylvania Department of Education
  • Pennsylvania Inspired Leadership Program (PIL)
  • Administrative Certificates: Elementary and Secondary Principal
  • District-Wide Supervisory Certificate: Curriculum and Instruction
  • District-Wide Supervisory Certificate: Pupil Personnel Services
  • Single Area Supervisory Certificates: K-12
  • Superintendent's/Assistant Superintendent's Letter of Eligibility


  • U.S Department of Education
  • Support for Administrators
  • Innovative Pathways to School Leadership


  • Pennsylvania Association of School Administrators
  • PASA Homepage


  • American Association of School Administrators
  • AASA Homepage


  • PA Association of Elementary and Secondary School Principals
  • PAESSP Homepage


  • National Association of Elementary School Principals
  • NAESP Homepage


  • National Association of Secondary School Principals
  • NASSP Homepage


  • Pennsylvania Association of School Business Officials
  • PASBO Homepage


  • Association of School Business Officials International
  • ASBO Homepage


  • Council of Chief State School Officers
  • Homepage


  • The Wallace Foundation
  • Education Leadership
  • Leadership for Learning Project


  • Institute for Educational Leadership:
  • IEL Homepage


  • Education Commission of the States
  • Leadership Issues Site
  • State Action for Education Leadership Project


  • National Conference of State Legislatures
  • School Leadership Homepage


  • School Leadership Recruitment
  • Academy for Leadership in Philadelphia Schools
  • New Leaders for New Schools


  • Middleweb: Exploring Middle School Reform
  • School Leadership Resources
  • Principal Professional Development




  • RESEARCH & REPORTS [Top]

    Pennsylvania Reports | National Reports


    Pennsylvania Reports


    Strengthening School Leadership: Preparing and Supporting Superintendents and Principals
    The Education Policy and Leadership Center, October 2006

    Administrative Shortages in Pennsylvania's Public School Districts
    A report from the Joint State Government Commission Task Force on Administrative Shortages, July 2003



    National Reports


    The Leadership Limbo: Teacher Labor Agreements in America's Fifty Largest School Districts  NEW!
    Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, February 2008

    Education Leadership: A Bridge to School Reform  NEW!
    The Wallace Foundation, 2007

    Preparing School Leaders for a Changing World: Lessons from Exemplary Leadership Development Programs  NEW!
    Stanford Educational Leadership Institute, 2007

    School District Leadership that Works: The Effect of Superintendent Leadership on Student Achievement
    Midcontinent Research for Education and Learning (McREL), September 2006

    International School Business Management Professional Standards and Code of Ethics
    Association of School Business Officials International, 2006

    Preparing and Supporting School Leaders: The Importance of Assessment and Evaluation
    Institute for Educational Leadership, 2005

    Preparing and Supporting Diverse, Culturally Competent Leaders: Practice and Policy Considerations
    Institute for Educational Leadership, 2005

    Preparing Leaders for Rural Schools: Practice and Policy Considerations
    Institute for Educational Leadership, 2005

    When Learning Counts: Rethinking Licenses for School Leaders
    Center on Reinventing Public Education, December 2005

    School Leadership Study: Developing Successful Principals
    Stanford Educational Leadership Institute, August 2005

    A Shared Responsibility: Staffing All High-Poverty, Low-Performing Schools with Effective Teachers and Administrators - A Framework for Action
    Learning First Alliance, June 2005

    Leading Early Childhood Learning Communities: What Principals Should Know and Be Able To Do
    National Association of Elementary School Principals, April 2005

    Learning to Lead? What Gets Taught in Principal Preparation Programs
    American Enterprise Institute, 2005

    Textbook Leadership? An Analysis of Leading Books Used in Principal Preparation
    American Enterprise Institute, 2005

    The Principal Internship: How Can We Get it Right?
    Southern Regional Education Board, 2005

    Case Study: A District-Driven Principal Preparation Program Design. The Providence School Department and the University of Rhode Island Partnership, Providence, Rhode Island
    Southern Regional Education Board, 2005

    What's Happening in School and District Leadership
    Education Commission of the States, March 2005

    Educating School Leaders
    By Arthur Levine, president, Teachers College at Columbia University, March 2005

    Leading Schools: Distinguishing the Essential from the Important
    Mid-Continent Research for Education and Learning (McRel), 2004

    Profiles in Leadership: Innovative Approaches to Transforming the American High School
    A collection of essays published by the Alliance for Excellent Education, 2004

    How Leadership Influences Student Learning
    A new report from The Wallace Foundation, September 2004

    Progress Being Made in Getting a Quality Leader in Every School
    A report from the Southern Regional Education Board, July 2004

    The Careers of Public School Administrators
    A report from RAND, June 2004

    What We Know About Successful School Leadership
    A research brief from The Laboratory for Student Success and the Task Force on Developing Research in Educational Leadership for Division A of AERA, January 2003

    State Policy & Practice Compendium
    A resource from the State Action for Education Leadership Project

    Rolling Up Their Sleeves: Superintendents and Principals Talk About What's Needed to Fix Public Schools
    Results from a survey conducted by Public Agenda, November 2003

    Balanced Leadership: What 30 Years of Research Tells Us About the Effect of Leadership on Student Achievement
    Published by McREL, 2003

    Improving Teaching and Learning by Improving School Leadership
    An Issue Brief from the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices, September 2003

    Leading for Learning: Reflective Tools for School and District Leaders
    A report from the Center for the Study of Teaching and Policy, February 2003

    Leading for Learning Sourcebook: Concepts and Examples
    A report from the Center for the Study of Teaching and Policy, February 2003

    Making Sense of Leading Schools: A Study of the School Principalship
    A report from the Center on Reinventing Public Education, commissioned by The Wallace Foundation, September 2003

    An Impossible Job? The View From the Urban Superintendent's Chair
    A report from the Center on Reinventing Public Education, commissioned by The Wallace Foundation, July 2003

    A Matter of Definition: Is There Truly A Shortage of School Principals?
    A report from the Center on Reinventing Public Education, commissioned by The Wallace Foundation, January 2003

    Beyond the Pipeline: Getting the Principals We Need, Where They Are Needed Most
    A Policy Brief by The Wallace Foundation, June 2003

    Who is Leading Our Schools? An Overview of School Administrators and Their Careers
    A study conducted by Rand for The Wallace Foundation, June 2003

  • Reinventing the Principalship (October 2000)
  • Recognizing the State's Role in Public Education (May 2001)
  • Redefining the Teacher as Leader (April 2001)
  • Restructuring School District Leadership (February 2001)

  • Publications from the Institute for Educational Leadership's "Leadership for Student Learning" series

    Good Principals Are the Key to Successful Schools: Six Strategies to Prepare More Good Principals
    Published by the Southern Regional Education Board, June 2003

    Universities in the Lead: Redesigning Leadership Preparation for Student Achievement
    Published by the Southern Regional Education Board, Fall 2002

    Leadership Matters: Building Leadership Capacity
    Published by the Southern Regional Education Board, 2001

    What School Principals Need to Know About Curriculum and Instruction
    Published by the Southern Regional Education Board, 2001

    Leading School Improvement: What the Research Says
    Published by the Southern Regional Education Board, March 2001

    The Urban Superintendent: Creating Great Schools While Surviving on the Job
    Report of a Colloquium of Former Urban Superintendents, Published by the Council of the Great City Schools, February 2003

    Urban School Superintendents: Characteristics, Tenure and Salary
    Survey by the Council of the Great City Schools, October 2001

    Strategies for School System Leaders on District-Level Change
    An issues series of the Panasonic Foundation in collaboration with the American Association of School Administrators

    Pathways to the Principalship
    Published by Educational Leadership, May 2000

    Learning to Lead, Leading to Learn: Improving School Quality through Principal Professional Development
    Published by the National Staff Development Council

  • The Contemporary Principal: New Skills for a New Age
  • Evaluating the Principal: Changing Processes for Changing Roles

  • Articles from Education Update, published by the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 2000

    The Principal as Chief Learning Officer: The New Work of Formative Leadership
    By Dr. Ruth Ash and Maurice Persall, Samford University

    The Role of Leadership in Sustaining School Reform: Voices from the Field
    From the U.S. Department of Education, July 1996



    CURRENT PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATION [Top]

    Archived Legislation

    Archived Legislation

    Click here to review School Leadership related legislation introduced during the 2005-2006 Legislative Session.

    Click here to review School Leadership related legislation introduced during the 2003-2004 Legislative Session.



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