Effective Principals

An effective principal is essential to school success. These resources provide research, policy snapshots, promising practices, and examples to guide school districts in planning and implementing principal development and evaluation systems.

Developing Principals

This section outlines the stages of the leadership development continuum and presents a framework for principal effectiveness.

Effective Principals for California Schools – Building a Coherent Leadership Development System
This proposal suggests an organizing frame for principal development, which is a continuum of career stages, with related system support. This frame recognizes that principals develop their capacity to successfully lead schools over the course of their career and that the career stages are distinct, but interrelated.

Effective Principal Support – What Will It Take?
This short article provides an overview of the comprehensive report, Effective Principals in California Schools – Building a Coherent Leadership Development System (2010) and offers a set of essential questions for district and state leaders to consider as they strive to improve principal development.