School Leader

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Develop partnerships with key stakeholders (e.g., in an equity workgroup) to determine what metrics should be used to measure student access to excellent teachers and leaders.

Access to important educational resources in California’s middle and high schools is not equal among schools that serve different student populations. Overall, the most disadvantaged populations of middle and high school students are likely to have the least access to the resources necessary for learning.

New York rural schools and districts have a high percentage of core teaching assignments filled by highly qualified teachers; there are only small differences across key factors such as poverty and the need for school improvement. Urban schools—particularly those in New York City—have fewer core assignments filled by highly qualified teachers.

This report from The Education Trust recommends policy changes that districts and states can consider to address issues of school culture, and how these issues relate to rates of teacher dissatisfaction and turnover in schools that serve students from low-income and minority families.

Ensuring safer schools requires establishing effective indicators of the current state of school crime and safety across the United States and regularly updating and monitoring these indicators. This report presents the most recent data available on school crime and student safety, including topics such as victimization, teacher injury, bullying, school conditions, fights, weapons, the availability and student use of drugs and alcohol, and student perceptions of personal safety at school. Indicators of crime and safety are compared across different population subgroups and long term.

This resource provides information to help schools engage families and communities in education.

This presentation from Ellen Behrstock-Sherratt overviews the literature related to the role of school leaders in addressing equity issues. 

The authors of this report reviewed four districts that exhibited shared leadership. The report defines the different components of shared leadership and the conditions that enable it, and it also provides some examples of shared leadership. The authors believe there is no one right way to distribute leadership; both bottom-up and top-down approaches can be successful.