School Leadership

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
Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, February 2008

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

Preparing School Leaders for a Changing World: Lessons from Exemplary Leadership Development Programs
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