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When principals leave, teachers are more likely to leave, strengthening a destructive cycle that worsens shortages. 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But despite some stabilization during the pandemic, both teacher and principal turnover rates are rising at the district and school levels, especially at highpoverty schools. Our recent original research underscores an overlooked impact on teachers and students alike: When principals leave their schools, teachers are more likely to leave, as well. |  |\n| Addressing this turnover cycle and the pervasive teacher shortage means focusing on supporting the principals around the issues that matter most to them: Are the expectations of their role clear? Are their workloads manageable? Are they empowered to execute their work and develop as professionals? When principals get effective support from their district office—including on how to attract and retain highly effective teachers—they’re less likely to leave their  schools, which can stabilize teacher turnover rates and improve student outcomes and experiences. Stopping the turnover cycle and building toward transformative change in schools means providing principals with these four key supports.\u003Cbr>1. Role Clarity and Manageable Workloads | \u003Cbr>“When principals get effective support from their district office [...] they’re less likely to leave their schools, which can stabilize teacher turnover rates and improve student outcomesand experiences.” |\n| Principals are often expected to be everything: instructional leaders, people developers, operations experts, budget specialists, family liaisons, and social-emotional supporters. To fill these many roles, most principals work long, arduous hours—an average of 60 hours per week, according to one study—which can lead to burnout and turnover. To create a more sustainable job and maximize principals’ impact, district leaders can:\u003Cbr>• Clarify the principal role. District leaders should consider the most important ways principalscan spend their time, and then structure responsibilities, supports, and evaluations accordingly. In a district where principals need to focus more on working directly with teachers in classrooms as instructional leaders, for example, district leaders can help manage school operations. In a district where principals need to serve as budget experts, central office leaders can provide financial training and create teacher leadership opportunities for instructional support.\u003Cbr>• Create cohesive leadership teams that share the load. Principals require resources to organize effective shared leadership teams comprising assistant principals, deans, and instructional coaches of their own choosing. District leaders can support by assigning content, specialty, and grade-level leads to these teams; investing financial resources in establishing these teams; creating compensation structures that align to these roles; and offering professional development opportunities to enable team members to do\u003Cbr>their best work.\u003Cbr>1 EDUCATION RESOURCE STRATEGIES |  |\n\n\n| • Simplify principals’ workloads. District leaders can make workloads more manageable by eliminating or reducing lower-priority tasks (such as purely compliance-related tasks); providing tools and data that they can integrate into their school planning processes; and adjusting timelines to spread tasks throughout the year.\u003Cbr>2. Flexibility\u003Cbr>Clarifying the principal role involves defining which decisions fall into principals’ and central offices’ purviews, respectively. When principals aren’t able to make the decisions that impact their school’s outcomes, they’re more likely to feel unsatisfied or leave. As such, it’s essential that district leaders:\u003Cbr>• Align on a clear theory of action around principal flexibility. 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