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Pbs Learning Media: Consistent Supervision and Ongoing Evaluation
Many districts are moving to a model in which skilled principal supervisors engage often with principals in their schools. These regular visits, coupled with evaluation based on rubrics, provide ongoing guidance to improve practice. This...
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Pbs Learning Media: Principal Empowerment
Schools will improve when principals are given the autonomy to make decisions that best solve their school-based problems. Coupled with this autonomy is the accountability to produce significant improvement. The upper level bureaucracy...
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Pbs Learning Media: Principal as Instructional Leader
The key role of the principal is instructional leader. However, there are many pressures that prevent principals from getting into classrooms to help teachers build their instructional capacity. The traditional time-consuming observation...
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Pbs Learning Media: Ongoing Support
Principals need support, not only in their early years, but throughout their careers. Support and encouragement can come from networks of principals who meet regularly to share problems and solutions and reflect on their practice....
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Pbs Learning Media: Teacher Leaders and Teacher Teams
Leadership preparation begins with early and meaningful opportunities for teachers to lead. The traditional span of control in schools with one principal supervising scores of teachers is outdated and no longer functional. Distributed...
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Univ. Of West Georgia: Analyzing the Leadership Behavior of School Principals
This academic document describes various methods of measuring a principal's leadership behavior. The authors developed a new survey instrument that can be used to analyze the leadership behavior/style of a principal.
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Pbs Learning Media: School Leadership in Action
This learning module includes several lessons designed to illustrate best practices in school leadership and spark conversation, reflection, and new thinking in schools and districts.
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Leading to Learn: School Leadership and Management Styles
This resource explores the careful balance of instructional leadership and managerial leadership within a school setting.
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Encyclopedia of Educational Leadership and Admin: Leadership Styles [Pdf]
This resource is a comprehensive list and explanation of leadership styles.
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The Community Tool Box: Styles of Leadership
Explore the many styles and applications of leadership roles. This resource will provide explanations and practical examples.
Donald Clark
Big Dog, Little Dog: Leadership Styles
Authoritarian, participative and delegative styles of leadership are the focus, including the best situations for each.
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Wall Street Journal: Leadership Styles
The Wall Street Journal series explore the different types and behaviors of leadership.