Principal Leadership

The Definition of the Issue Effective leadership is many times recognized as a necessary component for a school to have positive student achievement. The increase in accountability regarding student achievement with standards and now the common core standards has magnified the need for strong leaders in schools. Accountability stresses the need to have effective principals in schools and if a school is deemed low performing, reassignment of the principal is a step towards correcting the under achieving school. Principal leadership has been correlated to student achievement and learning. Researching the effective leadership skills a principal in a school which has had sustained growth with student achievement employs will be beneficial for those schools in which this is not the case. Principals in low performing or principals new to the field could utilize the strategies and leadership style the effective principals have resulting in positive growth for student achievement.
The Importance of the Issue No Child Left Behind legislation placed student achievement and accountability of results squarely on the leadership of a school, the principal. The adoption of the Common Core standards has not lessened this …show more content…
Bush reauthorized the Elementary and Secondary Act, giving it a new name No Child Left Behind of 2001. The No Child Left Behind was the result stemming from A Nation at Risk, which outlined severe issues with the educational system in the United States. The legislation of No Child Left Behind mandated states to adopt a comprehensive accountability system for identifying poor performing schools and a system to improve the underperforming schools. One of the components of corrective action involved the leadership of low performing schools. The removal of the principal of schools deemed under performing and placing an effective principal to the school was a result of the accountability of No Child Left