Districts Matter: Cultivating the Principals Urban Schools Need

School districts play a primary role in helping principals maximize their responsibilities of improving teaching and learning. This report, published by the Wallace Foundation, emphasizes two key tasks that school districts need to do to best develop and cultivate the most highly qualified principals. Evidence finds that schools districts need to build a large corps of well-qualified candidates and also need to support leaders on the job. The report details how doing so can lead to more successful outcomes.