North Carolina’s Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system got new leadership in August, but it wasn’t the superintendent or the school board. A civic group, Mecklenburg Citizens for Public Education, was launched with the aim of becoming a major player in district policy.
November 28, 2006
Impatient to prepare better-qualified school leaders, a growing number of states are giving their universities an ultimatum: Redesign your preservice programs, or get out of the business of training school administrators.
October 17, 2006
A growing number of states are providing new forms of coaching and training for novice principals in the hope of turning what’s often a sink-or-swim experience into one more likely to lead to improved school performance.
September 12, 2006
The National Association of Secondary School Principals has launched a blog to inform school leaders of federal education policy and enlist them in shaping that world.
September 12, 2006
New York City’s public school, the nation’s largest school system, has hired Cambridge Education, based in the English city of the same name, to help design a process for judging how well schools make decisions about instruction.
May 16, 2006
Shared decisionmaking and site-based management are not unusual in the San Francisco Unified School District, where the two leadership principles are central to the 56,000-student district’s strategy for raising student performance.
April 11, 2006
Over the past decade, Forsyth County, Ga., has evolved from a district with a few desktop PCs in every classroom and a simple Web site to one where the superintendent and senior administrators use Blackberry devices, every teacher has a laptop, custodians wield Palm Pilots to track work orders, and school board members conduct nearly all their public business electronically.
March 3, 2006
What’s your theory of action for school improvement? If you’re a school board member and you don’t have one, your district could be in trouble.
January 31, 2006
St. Louis University is one of a growing number of higher education institutions that are retooling their Doctor of Education, or Ed.D., programs to concentrate more on the practical skills required of district leaders.
December 13, 2005
Like 18 other district chiefs in Iowa, Superintendent Bob Lehman splits his time between two school systems, each of which pays half his salary. Though sharing leaders helps small districts cut costs, it makes for a taxing job.
November 1, 2005
