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#7 PRINCIPALS ARE A CONSTANT PRESENCE.

“It’s Being Done.”  Academic Success in Unexpected Schools  (Chenoweth, 2007)

  • The expectation is that for the most part, the principals are in the building and walking the halls, conferring with the teachers, looking at student work, and interacting with students, teachers, and parents.
  • Depending on how big the school is, some principals stop in on every class at the beginning of the day.  It is the principals’ version of ‘doing rounds’.  They are gauging the pulse of their buildings.

ALTHOUGHT THE PRINCPALS ARE IMPORTANT LEADERS, THEY ARE NOT THE ONLY LEADERS.

  • Distributed leadership is part of an explicit practice to institutionalize improvement so that it is not reliant on a single individual.  These principals are trying to build the kinds of enduring structures that will outlast them

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