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Good News for Delaware’s Principals and DASL’s SAM Project

News, Policy and Practice

October 27th, 2011

If you asked most students and even teachers what their principals’ duties are, they would probably give you a laundry list of administrative tasks. In my own experience, my principal was responsible for everything from grant-writing to lunch duty. But most people would agree that a principal is first and foremost the instructional leader of a...

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Local and National Interest in Principals/School Leaders Rises

News, Policy and Practice

October 25th, 2011

Last week the application was released for the second cohort of the Delaware Leadership Project (DLP), an alternative principal pipeline aimed at training highly effective school leaders and putting them in schools that need them the most (for more on DLP see our previous post and DLP’s  website). There has been increased national attention...

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ESEA Reauthorization Passes HELP Committee

News, Policy and Practice

October 21st, 2011

On Wednesday, October 19, the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) committee began mark-up of the bipartisan Harkin-Enzi ESEA reauthorization bill. There has been plenty of education policy buzz and analysis around the bill since it was first presented last week. We previously blogged an analysis comparing this bill with...

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