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The study focuses on how superintendents rank principal leadership characteristics after AchieveNJ’s introduction, identifying instructional leadership as the most desired trait. 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It was initiated to meet accountability requirements for measuring how principals improve student achievement.","Answer",{"name":115,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":116},"How does AchieveNJ affect superintendents’ hiring decisions for principals?",{"text":117,"@type":113},"The study investigates whether AchieveNJ influences hiring decisions by forcing superintendents to rank leadership characteristics. 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According to superintendents, there is not one accepted standard in principal leadership characteristics, although there are commonalities regarding traits associated with improving student achievement. The significance of this study is to unveil comparisons, distinctions, and conclusions about the impact AchieveNJ has had on superintendents’ hiring decisions of principals, which will contribute to the literature gap on AchieveNJ. AchieveNJ was anew variable in the research and it forced superintendents to rank principal leadership characteristics. This groundbreaking policy is at the forefront of accountability and serves an educational milestone. The significance of the findings presented evidence that since AchieveNJ was introduced in 2013-14, instructional leadership was the most desired leadership trait when superintendents hire principals. Also, districts’ and superintendents’ demographic variables had no influence on the findings.  \nNCPEA Education Leadership Review of Doctoral Research, Vol. 3, No. 1 – Spring 2016  \nISSN: 1532-0723 © 2016 National Council of Professors of Educational Administration. This manuscript may not be used commercially or edited. When quoting portions ofthis text,  \nfull attribution to the author/s is required.  \nSuperintendents make recommendations to their boards of education to gain approval for the employment of a new principal. After the interview process, the superintendent makes a hiring decision on who is the best candidate. Obviously, there are external factors that influence their decisions. Each superintendent has his/her own set of most valued leadership characteristics used to assess the candidate pool, as well as in their selection of the successful candidate. A plethora of literature exists on superintendents’ hiring decisions of principals, where a variety of qualities are valued by superintendents when considering a new principal (Arrowood, 2005; Clark, 2003; Dillon, 1995; Karol, 1988; Rammer, 2007b ; Weber, 2009) . Each superintendent has a different set of qualities they valued in principals.  \nSince 2010, the New Jersey Department of Education (NJDOE) has been working on a new educator evaluation system with the intent to improve all educator evaluations (NJDOE, 2013a) . In the 2013-2014 school year, New Jersey public school superintendents were obligated to follow the state-mandated principal evaluation system named AchieveNJ, which assesses how well principals improve student achievement. There is little known about the influence AchieveNJ might have on superintendents’ hiring decisions and educational practice itself. This policy was initiated in the 2013-2014 school year in order to meet the accountability mandates for educator effectiveness (NJDOE, 2013a) .  \nThe NJDOE has, for the first time, unveiled a new standardized educator evaluation system, AchieveNJ, where summative ratings will depend, in part, upon the proficiency percentages in student performance on state assessments. This new evaluation tool will encompass teachers and principals. In preparation for the unveiling, a comprehensive planning and two-year pilot programs existed in 2010 (NJDOE, 2013a; “What you need to know,” 2013; however, this policy has not been free of controversy nor has it been accepted by all stakeholders. The New Jersey Education Association (NJEA), New Jersey Principals and Supervisors Association (NJPSA), and the Garden State Coalition are a few organizations who have voiced their concerns in the me","cbCairW0TjyrW2pA","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCairW0TjyrW2pA","pdf",234527,13,"English","# AchieveNJ and Its Effects on Hiring Principals\n## Hiring decisions and leadership characteristics\n## NJDOE principal evaluation system and policy context\n## Policy controversies and stakeholder responses\n## Implications for districts and principal hiring","[{\"question\":\"What is AchieveNJ and why was it introduced in New Jersey?\",\"answer\":\"AchieveNJ is a state-mandated principal evaluation system intended to improve educator effectiveness. 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