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Guiding Principles
The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 has required schools, school districts, and colleges of education to carefully examine the teaching and learning process and its relationship to poor performing students. People that occupy positions of leadership, within schools and school districts, are expected to sufficiently neutralize a host of social ills, while simultaneously being evaluated by a small number of objective measures. Graduate schools in colleges of education across the country, and abroad, are expected to reform/design their programs to effectively train graduates to respond to these demands. Currently, school policy makers and practitioners spend an abundance of time dealing with dysfunctions of a greater society (war, famine, hunger, terror, homelessness, inflation, unemployment, etc). Yet, schools will be evaluated based on their ability to enhance scholastic achievement, especially among economically disadvantaged students of color. The primary indicator of enhanced “student achievement” is positive changes on standardized tests.
The role of a school principal is overwhelmed by intangibles that are crucial to the effectiveness of a school’s operation. The staff at D & G Leadership is committed to providing direction to principals as they tackle seemingly insurmountable obstacles. Likewise, we are committed to providing direction to those who teach, train, hire, or evaluate principals.
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