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| 1/7/2010 | The Balanced Leadership Program and leadership, practice and learning | |
| Texas A&M University | ||
| Researchers from Texas A&M University and the University of Michigan are currently evaluating the effectiveness of McREL's Balanced Leadership® program. The study will look for a connection between principals' participation in the Balanced Leadership Program and student achievement gains. | ||
| 1/1/2010 | Autonomy for School Leaders | |
| The School Administrator January 2010, Number 1, Vol. 67 |
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| In this article, Jim Eck, McREL's senior director of field services, and Bryan Goodwin, McREL's vice president of communications and marketing, discuss a key finding from McREL's research on district leadership, which suggests that effective districts intentionally create "defined autonomy" for school leaders: they set clear, non-negotiable goals for student achievement and classroom instruction district-wide, while offering the principals the autonomy and support necessary to achieve those goals. | ||
