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Across the Northwest, great principals lead with a common blend of skills, beliefs, and personal qualities. In the waning weeks of 1999, four writers set out from Portland by air and by land to the far reaches of the Northwest. Their mission: Discover what a great elementary-school principal looks like in action. Suzie Boss traveled to a busy ferry port in Puget Sound. Patrick Collins ventured to the mountain-rimmed Mat-Su Valley outside Anchorage. Catherine Paglin visited a Victorian town in the shadow of the Siskiyous. And Judy Blankenship spent several days in the arid Boise River Valley. As the stories arrived at the Lab one after another, the editors were increasingly struck by their likeness. Huge distances and wild landscapes separate the four school leaders featured here. Yet they run their schools in startlingly similar ways. Our profiles of the National Distinguished Principals from Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington reveal 10 themes that echo across the miles. Selected for top honors by the National Association of Elementary School Principals and the U.S. Department of Education, these outstanding principals:
Together, these stories tell, in a very human way, the very human business of leading a school toward excellence.
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