Districts should map virtual-learning and equity actions onto the seven domains of a comprehensive, aligned principal pipeline¶

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Description¶

The report adapts the seven-domain "comprehensive, aligned" principal pipeline—leader standards, pre-service preparation, selective hiring and placement, on-the-job evaluation and support, principal supervisors, leader tracking systems, and systems and sustainability—to virtual contexts. For each domain it offers strategies, e.g., "Include equity considerations for the virtual environment in leader standards" and providing "authentic opportunities for candidates to demonstrate competencies relevant to equity-focused leadership in a virtual environment." Domains are aligned because they reinforce one another.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Districts update preparation, hiring, and placement systems given the increased emphasis on virtual learning

Constraints¶

• The report describes itself as an early effort at guidance based on an emerging research base

Target Learners¶

• K-12 school principals and the district leaders who develop and support them

Target Learning Goals¶

• equity-centered leadership of high-quality virtual learning

Related Strategies¶

• State policy actions across the career continuum: attract, prepare, and develop/support/retain educators
• Institute strategies that turn the assistant principal experience into a structured program for developing school-leadership skills
• SEAs can use turnaround competencies and BEIs across selection, mentor matching, supervisor coaching, and leader pipelines
• Sequenced multi-year investment plan across teacher and principal pipelines, early childhood, high-poverty schools, funding, and assessment and accountability to achieve Leandro compliance
• Integrate technology across the entire instructional triangle of teachers, students, and instructional resources

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Stephenson, S. P., Hardy, A., Seylar, J., Wayman, J., Peters, V., Bellin, M., & Roschelle, J. (2021). Equity-Centered Leadership in a Virtual Environment. The Wallace Foundation. https://www.wallacefoundation.org