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Besides applauding the kinds of innovative university-based programs UW boasts, researchers are calling for district-based programs. The Seattle School District, with its Principal Leadership Institute, is running ahead of the pack. Only a quarter of 400 districts surveyed in 1998 had a program for identifying and grooming leaders among current staff members, Education Week reported in January. The John Stanford-initiated principal training in the Seattle district has made a seismic shift in the way Testa-Cross looks at her job. "I now believe that leadership makes a difference," she says. "I have confidence to take risks. I know systems can work." Before the training, she had deep doubts about her power to ignite change in her school. She felt stymied by the bureaucracy. She felt other hands were at the controls. "What I have realized," she says, "is that with good leadership, you can align systems to benefit the cause. Good leaders know that there are definite ways to motivate people that make all the difference. And, most important, if you stay focused on the vision, it can come true."
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