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| 3/12/2010 | McREL chosen as educational services provider for Washington state | |
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| Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL) has been chosen by the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) in Olympia, Wash., as one of 11 providers eligible to provide comprehensive educational services to the state’s low-performing schools as part of a School Improvement Grant from the United States Department of Education. | ||
| 1/7/2010 | The Balanced Leadership Program and leadership, practice and learning | |
| Texas A&M University | ||
| Researchers from Texas A&M University and the University of Michigan are currently evaluating the effectiveness of McREL's Balanced Leadership® program. The study will look for a connection between principals' participation in the Balanced Leadership Program and student achievement gains. | ||
| 1/1/2010 | Autonomy for School Leaders | |
| The School Administrator January 2010, Number 1, Vol. 67 |
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| In this article, Jim Eck, McREL's senior director of field services, and Bryan Goodwin, McREL's vice president of communications and marketing, discuss a key finding from McREL's research on district leadership, which suggests that effective districts intentionally create "defined autonomy" for school leaders: they set clear, non-negotiable goals for student achievement and classroom instruction district-wide, while offering the principals the autonomy and support necessary to achieve those goals. | ||
