What's The Research On...?

Breakfast, anyone?
A Chicago public elementary school raised its student achievement scores after the principal launched a voluntary monthly breakfast club where teachers gathered to discuss their practice.

Effective leaders embrace paradoxes
Principals who act as leaders, rather than as mere managers, are better able to guide their schools, even though leadership involves many paradoxes and complexities.

What Influences Principal Practice
Eric Camburn finds three kinds of principals: student leaders, who emphasize student affairs; instructional leaders, who focus on instructional leadership; and generalists, or eclectic leaders, who distribute their time evenly across responsibilities. No matter the context, effective leaders match their practices and behaviors to their own environments. They anticipate and address these circumstances. Contextual conditions distinguish among the three types of principals to a much greater extent than personal, individual characteristics.