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Charts: Instructional Leadership

September 17, 2004 1 min read
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School leaders say they engage in management-related activities such as ensuring security and attending to the school building far more often than they provide instructional leadership. They also are much less likely to have discretion over how to spend their school’s budget and how to train staff members than over student discipline and teacher hiring. Less than half the teachers said their principals often talk to them about instruction.

See charts of the survey data (PDF file, requires ).

A version of this article appeared in the September 15, 2004 edition of Education Week as Instructional Leadership

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