School Leadership
School & District Management
Opinion
‘This Is Not What We Signed Up For’: A Principal’s Plea for More Support
School leaders are playing the role of health-care experts, social workers, mask enforcers, and more. It’s taking a serious toll.
School & District Management
Letter to the Editor
Reconsidering Causes of Principal Burnout
The state and federal governments are asking us to implement policies that often go against our beliefs, says this letter to the editor.
School & District Management
Teachers Want Their Administrators to Teach. Here's Why
Principals and other education administrators should even be required to spend time teaching in the classroom, according to teachers responding to an EdWeek query.
School & District Management
Opinion
School Cannot Go on This Way. Education Leaders Need to Step Up
Instead of holding broken systems together, we encourage school leaders to focus on blazing new paths, write two teacher educators.
School & District Management
Principals Went Through a Lot in the Last Two Years. Here's What They Want to Hang Onto
Increased technology use, flexible staffing, and deeper community partnerships are high on their list of things to build on.
Professional Development
Video
What Good Principal Coaching Looks Like
Here's how one district uses coaches to guide new principals through their early years.
Special Report
How Principal Professional Development Is Evolving
This special report looks at fresh ways to frame continued professional learning for school leaders.
Professional Development
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Making Principal Coaching Work: 5 Tips
What are the elements of a successful coach-principal relationship? Read on for some key advice from veteran coaches.
Professional Development
Coaching for New Principals Can Provide a Critical Pillar of Support
Principal-coaches can go beyond mentoring to help early-career principals, but many districts don't have them.
Professional Development
How Taking a Turn as a Teacher Can Sharpen a Principal's Leadership Skills
"Teaching principals" say the experience can deepen relationships with staff and offer valuable lessons for their own leadership decisions.
Professional Development
From Our Research Center
What School and District Leaders Get, Want, and Need From Professional Development
The EdWeek Research Center surveyed hundreds of educators about their professional development access, requirements, and preferences.
Professional Development
5 Ways for Principals to Turn Crisis Into Professional Development
School leaders offer advice on developing the mindset and habits to learn the lessons left by challenges like the pandemic.
Professional Development
Teaming Up School and District Leaders: A Win-Win Approach to PD
Some professional development programs get district and school leaders working together in an effort to align policies and goals.
Professional Development
Video
Where Texas School Leaders Can Find Comprehensive Professional Development
An Austin-based center brings together those at the school and district levels.