Being A Principal

Part of being an educational leader includes inspiring future administrators and having a
succession plan. As you are just beginning to learn the skills of a successful educational leader,
thinking about what you might say to future leaders can help focus your own development. It is
always helpful to begin with the end in mind.

Create an 8-10 slide digital presentation for aspiring administrators about the roles and
responsibilities of the principal.

Include the following:

Becoming a principal

5 Key Functions of principal leadership:

-shaping a vision of academic success for all studnets

-Creating a climate hospitable to education in order that safety

Cultivation leadership in others

Improving Instruction to allow teachers to teach their best

Improving school through data collection and managment

Effects on Student outcome

Effects on faculty and staff

Effects on student, staff, families, and community

https://www.naesp.org/sites/default/files/LeadershipMatters.pdf

five key functions of principal leadership:

■ Shaping a vision of academic success for all students, one based on high standards.
■ Creating a climate hospitable to education in order that safety, a cooperative spirit and
other foundations of fruitful interaction prevail.

■ Cultivating leadership in others so that teachers and other adults assume their part in
realizing the school vision.
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■ Improving instruction to enable teachers to teach at their best and students to learn at
their utmost.

■ Managing people, data and processes to foster school improvement. (p. 4, boldface
removed)

1. The effect principals can have on student outcomes when they accept responsibility for
each student’s academic success and well-being.
2. The effect principals can have on faculty and staff when they promote a culture that is
collaborative, provides needed support, and encourages personal self-efficacy.
3. The effects on students, staff, families, and the community when principals regularly
model and promote the professional norms of integrity, fairness, transparency, trust,
collaboration, perseverance, learning, and continuous improvement.
4. A title slide, reference slide, and presenter’s notes.

Provide 2-3 scholarly sources to support your findings.

While APA format is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is
expected, and in-text citations and references should be presented using APA documentation
guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. 

This assignment uses a rubric. Review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become
familiar with the expectations for successful completion. 
You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Refer to the LopesWrite Technical
Support articles for assistance. 

Urban Educator Contributor (2018.) How do principals influence student achievement?

Education Week, Retrieved on September 27, 2020, from
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/urban_education_reform/2018/03/how_do_principals_influence
_student_achievement.html

National Associational of Secondary School Principals (2013.) Leadership

matters. Retrieved on September 27,2020, from

https://www.naesp.org/sites/default/files/LeadershipMatters.pdf
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Sanfo, J (2020) A three-level hierarchical linear model analysis of the effect of school
principals’ factors on primary school students’ learning achievements in Burkina Faso.
SCIENCE DIRECT Retrieved on September 27, 2020 from, https://www-sciencedirect
com.lopes.idm.oclc.org/science/article/pii/S0883035519307037?via%3Dihub