The Secrets of an Effective School Leader
This article was written originally for MultiBriefs Education . I know a lot of great school principals who are very modest when it comes to talking about how their effectiveness as leaders correlates with the success of their schools, but let’s be honest - school principals play an incredibly large role in the success (or failure) of their schools. In a recent April 2021 Educational Leadership article entitled What Great Principals Really Do , researchers and authors Jason Grissom, Anna Egalite, and Constance Lindsay completed a metaanalysis of six major research studies on principal effectiveness and concluded the following: “The quality of a school's principal is a big determinant of student achievement.” The authors then added, “Principals also affect all students in the school. And principals impact not just student learning but the experiences that students—and teachers—have in their schools. The principal can influence how often a student is absent or suspended, and how li