Common-Core Training for Principals on Increase

Principal Ryan Imbriale at Patapsco High School & Center for the Arts in Dundalk, Md., is one of the principals nationwide who is leading local implementation of the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts and mathematics.

—Matt Roth for Education Week

By Catherine Gewertz

A year ago, top officials in the school leadership world were worried. It seemed to them that principals were being overlooked in national conversations about how to get educators ready for the Common Core State Standards.

But that is changing. The past six months have seen a surge of activity to acquaint principals with the new standards and teach them how to lead their staff members through the profound changes that are required to turn the new expectations into classroom instruction.

“There is much greater awareness now about what we need to do to educate principals about what they should be doing for the common core,” said JoAnn D. Bartoletti, the executive director of the National Association of Secondary School Principals .