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Educational Leader + Teacher
Leader = Student Success
By Beverly Green, Principal, Center Square School, Logan Township School
District; and Kathy Burgin, Educator, Consultant, PAEMST Awardee
A principal’s role is sustainable and viable curriculum, While endlessly juggling the myriad
multifaceted in that it and provide ongoing professional tasks necessary for creating a positive
development while meeting the diverse
successful learning environment, how
encompasses being a learning needs of all students. In order can one principal ensure that school
building manager, an for these things to occur, the principal excellence becomes embedded in
the culture of the building? What can
should be in the classroom monitoring
instructional leader, and and providing targeted feedback to be done to lessen the administrative
assisting in district level teachers. However, most principals workload, while continuing to under-
stand and support teachers, address
spend their time on responsibilities that
responsibilities. (Bolman & do not involve instruction. There are students’ needs and effectively guide
Deal, 1992; Cuban, 1988). Principals more responsibilities being added but learning? The answer is through the
must ensure that teachers embrace the old ones have not been removed. development of teacher leaders.
best teaching practices, oversee a (Blasé, Blasé & Phillips, 2010). Teacher leadership is not a new
concept. This initiative for K-12 school
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