By Request: Leadership Practices of Successful Principals

Acknowledgments

External Review

Dr. Joanne Erickson, Associate Professor
Educational Leadership
University of Montana
Dr. Shirley Hord, Program Manager
Strategies for Increasing School Success Program
Southwest Educational Development Laboratory
Diana Pratt, Principal
Kentlake High School
Kent, Washington

Internal Review

Barbara Hansen, Project Director
Office of Planning and Service Coordination
Gwen McNeir, Program Analyst
Equity Center
Center for School, Family, and Community
Diana Oxley, Senior Program Advisor
Recreating High Schools Unit
Center for School and District Improvement
Deanna Woods, Program Advisor
Applying Research to Practice Unit
Center for School and District Improvement
Bibliographic Review
Linda Fitch
Technical Editing
Eugenia Cooper Potter
Desktop Publishing
Paula Surmann
Design
Denise Crabtree

Many thanks to the principals we interviewed for this booklet, as well to the teachers of Hosford Middle School who graciously met with us to offer their opinions on what makes an effective principal.