Robert Marzano (2003) – What

Works in Schools
School level factors:
 Guaranteed and viable curriculum
 Challenging goals and effective feedback

 Parent and community involvement

 Safe and orderly environment

 Collegiality and professionalism

 Teacher Level Factors:

 Instructional
Strategies
 Classroom Management

 Classroom Curriculum Design

 Student level factors:

 Home atmosphere
 Learned intelligence and

background knowledge
 Motivation
James H. Stronge, Holly B. Richard &
Nancy Catano (2008)
Qualities of Effective Principals
 Quality
6 - Communication
and Community Relations
 The principal fosters the success of
all students by collaboratively
effectively with all stakeholders.
 Good communication is the foundation
for building positive relationships with
parents, families, and the larger
community.
 Critical for principals to communicate

effectively to both internal and

external constituents.
 The Principal
and Effective Communication
 Good Communication
Requires Good Listening
 Communicating with

Teachers and Student

 Communicating with Parents and
Families
 Outreach to All Families
 Building Positive Parent

Relationships
 Involving Minority Parents –

Diversity
 Communicating with the Larger
Community
 Communicating with Local
Agencies
 Marketing Schools

 Community and Business

Partnerships
 Quality 2 - School Climate
 Theprincipal fosters the
success of all students by
advocating, nurturing, and
sustaining a positive and safe
school climate for all
stakeholders.
 The effective school leader helps create a
shared vision and mission, cultivates a
culture of trust, focuses on the right work,
and develops other leaders within the
school to provide sustainability.
 The school leader must demonstrate a
moral purpose, an understanding of the
change process, strength in relationship
building, knowledge sharing, and the ability
to provide coherence.
 The Principal’s Role in Fostering
and Sustaining School Climate
 The Relationship between the
Principal and School Climate.
 Stakeholder Involvement in

School Climate
Internal and External Dynamics at
Work in the School
 Establishing a Climate of Trust
 Navigating School Challenges

 The Effect of Internal and

External Dynamics
 The Importance of High
Expectations and Respect
 School Climate, Conflict and
Crisis Management
 School Climate and Shared

Decision Making
 Developing Shared Leadership

 Creating Professional Learning

Communities