1. Principals as Agents of Change The Wing Institute Jack States

2. How Important Are Principals?

3. Principals Impact on Student Achievement

4. How Effective Are Structural Interventions

5. Do Leadership Styles Make a Difference?

6. Administrators Impact on Turnover Ineffective leadership is primary reason for teachers leaving, North Carolina Teacher Working Conditions Survey, (2008) Of all the factors, teachers perception of school administration has the greatest influence on teachers retention, Boyd, et al., (2009) Principals at effective schools measured by value- added analysis are more likely to retain effective teachers and remove less effective teachers, Loeb, (2009)

7. Impact of Instructional Strategies on Student Achievement

8. What Principals Do Makes a Difference

9. Leadership Roles Instructional Technical (law, finance, facilities, data, and research) Norms and Values (pedagogy and ed philosophies) External Leadership (community and parents) Cultural Leadership (vision, leadership styles, and values) Managing for Results (quality control, and improvement) Managing Personnel (hire, evaluation, develop, firing, conflict) Hess and Kelly, 2002

10. How Principals Spend Time Turnbull, et al., 2009

11. Principals Survey Results Principals Survey Results North Carolina Principals Working Conditions Research Brief Instructional Managerial Strategic External Development Leadership and School Culture Micro Political Human Resource Portin, Schneider, DeArmond, and Gundlach, 2003

12. What Principals Value in Teachers Time on Task Focus on academic content Written learning goals are clear Instruction encourages active learning Differences between students recognized and accommodated Skills based instruction balanced with high level instruction Skills taught in context Classroom climate Prothero, 2002

13. How Principals Currently Assess Teachers Summative process: questionnaires, surveys, interviews, observations, and formal evaluation Walk-through: brief unscheduled visits Student achievement data Portfolio’s Peer reviews National Board Certification School improvement participation Ponticell, 2004

14. How Effective Are Principals at Identifying Valued Teachers

15. How Do We Change This Picture? Outcomes Input Feedback Loop Teaching Graduation Process Curriculum Rummler and Brache, 1990

16. How Important Is Assessment?

17. What Staff Development Methods Produce Best Results?

18. How Powerful is Feedback

19. Effective and Marginal Supervisors Categories From the Operant Supervisory Taxonomy and Index Komaki, 1986

20. Principal Licensure and Certification Curriculum is in disarray Low admissions and graduation standards Weak faculty Inadequate clinical instruction Confusing assortment of degrees Poor research Arthur Levine, Principal Survey, 2005

21. Principal Preparation Qualifications

22. What Do Principal Preparation Programs Teach?

23. Take Home Message 1.Principals make a difference second only to teachers 2.Effective principals need to focus on quality classroom instruction 3.Effective principals retain effective teachers 4.Principals need to focus on improving teacher’s instructional skills monitor teachers performance provide feedback frequently provide on-going staff development 5.Principal preparation has not met expectations and needs to based on what we know works