Five Key Skills for Effective School Principals - District Dossier - Education Week

Five Key Skills for Effective School Principals - District Dossier - Education Week

The New York-based Wallace Foundation has distilled a decade's worth of research and work funding leadership projects in 24 states into five "key functions" that effective principals must have. Those functions include shaping a vision of academic success for all students; creating a climate hospitable to education; cultivating leadership in others; improving instruction and managing people, data and processes to foster-school improvement.