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UC Berkeley’s recipe for preparing principals

By Katy Murphy
Friday, February 26th, 2010 at 5:22 pm in leadership changes
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UC Berkeley’s Principal Leadership Institute faculty say they have a darn good recipe for effective, stable school leadership: finding strong, ”home grown” candidates and supporting the new administrators in their first three years on the job. 

The local institute celebrated its 10th anniversary this month. It has graduated 343 school leaders, and cites a 95 percent retention rate (though I’m following up to see exactly what that means).

[Home grown, defined: Candidates to the program "should" work at a public school in the Bay Area and have three years of teaching experience; they also must commit to working four years at a California public school after they graduate.]

Who are these graduates? you ask. Here’s a list of PLI leaders now in Oakland schools, courtesy of the PLI: Read the rest of this entry »