School District Leadership That Works®: The Effect of Superintendent Leadership on Student Achievement
Author(s):
Timothy Waters and Robert Marzano
Audience(s):
Administrators
Product Description:
McREL’s meta-analysis of decades of research on the effect of superintendent leadership, perhaps the largest ever, found that leadership at the highest level can have a positive effect on student achievement.
Key Ideas:
Highlights of the findings include:
District-level leadership matters. There is a significant relationship between district leadership and student achievement.
Effective superintendents focus their efforts on creating goal-oriented districts. Five district-level leadership responsibilities positively related to setting and keeping districts focused on teaching and learning goals.
Superintendent tenure is positively correlated with student achievement.
The length of superintendent tenure in a district positively correlates to student achievement, and appears to manifest as early as two years into a superintendent's tenure.
APA Citation:
Waters, J. T., & Marzano, R. J. (2006). School district leadership that works: The effect of superintendent leadership on student achievement. Denver, CO: Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning.
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