Abstract：Principals matter to the academic success of students. Here’s what districts are doing to attract strong leaders and support their growth and success. It’s not just the definition of school leader ship that’s evolving. So is the relationship between districts and principals. Central office staff members in several districts have recast themselves from “compliance cops” to “helpersin-chief” for principals and their teams. In an important bit of symbolism, Gwinnett County, the largest district in Georgia, named its headquarters building the Instructional Support Center. The title reinforces the district’s conviction that educators have one of two roles—either they teach or they support teaching and learning. Gwinnett and a growing number of other large districts are focusing on two objectives to strengthen school leadership: (1) building a pipeline of new principals who are ready to tackle the most underperforming schools and (2) fully supporting those leaders, especially during their novice years.

总结：校长关系到学生的学业成就。以下是各区正在做吸引有实力的领导者和支持他们的成长和成功。那么，地区和校长之间的关系，在一些地区中心办公室的工作人员已经开始重塑校长和他们的团队。象征意义的重要一点，Gwinnett，乔治亚州最大的区，评出了总部大楼的教学支持中心。加强了小区的信念，即教育者有两个中的一个角色，无论他们教或者支持教学和学习。格威内特和越来越多的其他广大地区都集中在两个目标，加强学校领导：（1）建立新的校长选拔，即谁愿意解决最不佳的学校，（2）全力支持这些领导人，特别是在他们的新手年。

来源：Educational Leadership/April 2013