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It highlights that leadership funding spans teacher leaders, principals, and superintendents, often using Title II’s three percent set-aside for evidence-based leadership strategies. 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Several states also engage stakeholders to reflect today’s principal responsibilities and leadership needs across districts.","https://schema.org",{"og:url":83,"og:type":124,"og:title":65,"og:site_name":95,"og:description":67},"article",{"robots":126,"canonical":83},"index,follow",{"doc_id":128,"site_id":62},585440,1792165741,{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":131},{"doc_id":128,"user_id":132,"nickname":92,"user_avatar":133,"doc_module":4,"category_id":39,"category_name":40,"doc_title":65,"doc_description":67,"doc_content":134,"file_id":135,"file_url":136,"file_type":137,"file_size":138,"view_count":34,"is_deleted":4,"is_public":8,"is_downloadable":8,"audit_status":8,"page_count":39,"language":139,"language_code":63,"site_id":62,"html_lang":63,"table_of_contents":140,"faqs":141,"seo_title":142,"seo_description":67,"update_tm":143,"read_time":46,"preview_page_count":4},1099523882182,"https://ap-avatar.wpscdn.com/davatar_6f874abed73319feea01a86fa6f0fab8","Prioritizing Leadership:  \nAn Analysis of State ESSA Plans  \nINTRODUCTION  \nIn their plans to carry out the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), states universally recognize what New Leaders has long known: leadership changes everything. In fact, every single state has committed to directing some portion of its federal funding into investments in leadership—from teacher leaders to principals and superintendents.  \n52  \n 24  \n 46  \nstates, including DC and Puerto Rico, intend to  \ninvest in leadership  \nstates plan to use the Title II 3 percent set-aside for school leadership1  \nstates identify, require, or prioritize evidence-based strategies to support school leadership or school improvement  \nThese plans represent a marked shift from the past, when many states did not recognize the critical role principals and other school leaders play in creating schools where teachers and students thrive, together. As a result, investments in leadership have historically been inadequate. i  \n\n| Getting a well-prepared, well-supported principal in every school is a critical, cost-efficient strategy for delivering on the promise of ESSA: strong, sustained implementation of evidence-based school improvement strategies that get results for all kids in every classroom, every year. |  |\n| --- | --- |\n| States that adopt a strong leadership agenda will be better positioned to achieve their goals for school and student success. A follow-up to our Prioritizing Leadership: \u003Cbr>Opportunities in ESSA resource, this guide is designed to help state policymakers and other stakeholders:\u003Cbr>• Understand the range of leadership strategies included in states’ ESSA plans;\u003Cbr>• Prompt new thinking on initiatives and investments that could address leadership needs in their states as well as other challenges for which leadership could be a smart solution; and\u003Cbr>• Take action to assess, strengthen, and even expand the scope of their state’s leadership agenda. | Cultivating a well-prepared, well-supported principal corps requires strategic alignment across the leadership ecosystem and targeted investments along a principal’s career trajectory. In their ESSA plans, states have proposed a range of strategies to address leadership needs in five critical areas:\u003Cbr>1. Prioritizing Excellent Instructional Leadership;\u003Cbr>2. Advancing Diverse, Equity-Focused Leadership;\u003Cbr>3. Distributing Leadership and Building a Leadership Pipeline;\u003Cbr>4. Strengthening and Innovating Pre-Service Principal Preparation; and\u003Cbr>5. Focusing and Reimagining On-the-Job Principal Support. |\n| 1. Section 2101(c)(3) of the Every Student Succeeds Act allows states to use three percent of the Title II, Part A allocation they do not already reserve at the state level to invest in evidence-based school leadership strategies. |  |\n\n NEWLEADERS.ORG © 2018 New Leaders Inc. All rights reserved.  1   \nSTATE PLANS: TRENDS & EXAMPLES  \n1 Prioritizing Excellent Instructional Leadership  \nThe foundation of a strong leadership agenda is a clear vision of what excellent leadership looks like in action. Gone are the days when principals were seen as primarily responsible for bell schedules and making sure the buses arrived on time. In response to the increasing demands placed on school leaders today—especially supporting all teachers and students to meet or exceed college and career readiness expectations—some states are planning to update their definition of effective school leadership via revised leadership standards. Of note, many states are doubling down on a vision of the principal as the instructional leader of a school.2 In addition, states are using leadership standards to differentiate expectations across leadership roles (i. e., for teacher leaders, principal supervisors, and other school leaders) or along a principal’s career trajectory and development.  \nRhode Island will update its leadership standards and, using the 3% leadership set-aside, will launch an initiative to align competencies for distri","cbCailrybXzt7Kpp","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCailrybXzt7Kpp","pdf",1426334,"English","# Introduction\n# State Plans: Trends & Examples\n## 1 Prioritizing Excellent Instructional Leadership\n## Advancing Diverse, Equity-Focused Leadership\n## 2 Advancing Diverse, Equity-Focused Leadership","[{\"question\":\"How do state ESSA plans use funding to support school leadership?\",\"answer\":\"States generally direct parts of federal funding toward leadership investments, including teacher leaders, principals, and superintendents. Many plans use Title II’s three percent set-aside to fund evidence-based leadership strategies.\"},{\"question\":\"What are the five critical areas for leadership strategies in the plans?\",\"answer\":\"The plans focus on instructional leadership, diverse equity-focused leadership, distributing leadership and building a leadership pipeline, strengthening and innovating pre-service principal preparation, and improving on-the-job principal support.\"},{\"question\":\"How are states updating expectations for effective school leadership?\",\"answer\":\"Many states are revising leadership standards so principals are recognized as instructional leaders and so expectations differ by leadership role and career trajectory. Several states also engage stakeholders to reflect today’s principal responsibilities and leadership needs across districts.\"}]","Prioritizing Leadership - An Analysis of State ESSA Plans | PDF",1792054767]