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This qualitative study examines succession practices across five large Colorado school districts through principals’ and district leaders’ perspectives. Results show that leaders can strengthen succession and address challenges by differentiating support and intentionally fostering relationships to improve principal retention. 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Cieminski, Ed.D.  \nUniversity of Northern Colorado  \nPrincipals are instrumental to successful school improvement efforts and positive student outcomes. However, recent workforce trends, increased accountability, demands of the job, and turnover rates for school principals are worrisome. Succession planning is a systematic approach that involves all aspects of identifying and retaining leaders (Rothwell, 2010) including preparation, recruitment, selection, onboarding, induction, development, and retention. Although succession planning is underutilized in public school settings, it is one avenue to address leadership issues and help school district leaders meet their long-term leadership needs. This qualitative study examined the succession practices of five large school districts in Colorado by gathering the perspectives of principals and school district leaders. The findings indicate several actions that educational leaders can take to address the challenges of well-qualified candidates and the do-ability of the principal position. Findings further indicate that leaders may influence principal retention by differentiating support and purposefully fostering relationships. These findings might be used by other educational leaders to strengthen their succession practices and policies and affect the retention of school leaders.  \nKeywords: principal retention, leadership development, educational leadership, succession, succession planning  \nICPEL Education Leadership Review, Vol. 19, No. 1– December, 2018 ISSN: 1532-0723 © 2018 International Council of Professors of Educational Leadership  \nIn recent years, the role of the principal has changed from manager to instructional leader with an increased focus on accountability for results and evidence has accrued that demonstrates the importance of the principal in school improvement and student achievement efforts (Louis, Leithwood, Wahlstrom, & Anderson, 2010) . During this same time, principal workforce trends have included turnover at “an unsustainable level”(Schmidt-Davis & Bottoms, 2011, p. 1), an aging population as a large number of principals near retirement age (Gates, Ringel, Santibañez, Chung, & Ross, 2003), difficulties retaining principals in urban and challenging settings (Hargreaves & Fink, 2006), and less job satisfaction among principals (Markow, Macia, & Lee, 2013) . The result is a dichotomy: schools and school districts need qualified leaders to implement school improvement initiatives, but increased demands and accountability have led to the disenchantment of school leaders (Hargreaves & Fink, 2011) . This dissatisfaction, in turn, has created higher turnover and fewer applicants, which has hampered improvement initiatives (Brundrett, Rhodes, & Gkolia, 2006) . This vicious circle of principal turnover is detrimental to school improvement and student achievement initiatives (Louis et al., 2010; Schmidt-Davis & Bottoms, 2011) and is costly to school districts (School Leaders Network, 2014) . Attrition may also be higher in schools with high poverty, ethnic minorities, and low performance (Fuller & Young, 2009; Goldring & Taie, 2014) .  \nPractitioners and researchers have offered many explanations for perceived leadership shortages and high turnover rates. Leadership shortages are due to increased responsibilities and lack of support (Zepeda, Bengston, & Parylo, 2012), teachers not interested in serving as principals (Browne-Ferrigno & Muth, 2008; Kearney, 2010; Levine, 2005; Rhodes & Brundrett, 2009), and principal salaries not commensurate with responsibilities (Whitaker, 2003; Zepeda et al., 2012) . The reasons for principal turnover include increased accountability (Farkas, Johnson, & Duffett, 2003; Rangel, 2018), desire to serve easier to staff schools (Beteille Kalogrides, & Loeb, 2011; Gates et al., 2006), and desire to leverage position moves for better salary (Baker, Punswick &","cbCait4mu0FjTKA0","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCait4mu0FjTKA0","pdf",258263,21,"English","# Leadership context and problem statement\n## Succession planning approach\n## Workforce trends and turnover dynamics\n## Causes and proposed solutions\n## Professional development and shared leadership\n## Limited attention to succession planning in schools","[{\"question\":\"Why is leadership succession and principal retention important for schools?\",\"answer\":\"Principals are instrumental to school improvement and positive student outcomes. 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