The development and support of school leaders by the Principal Support Team is focused around seven leadership areas of practice. Each practice area has a link (see the left navigation menu links) that includes resources and tools to aid a school leader as the building’s instructional leader.

The Instructional Leadership Practices (ILPs) are research-based and have the greatest potential to impact student achievement. They are connected to state and national principal standards, and each includes a continuum of performance that enables a leader to progressively grow their skills.

1. Mission and Vision: Developing a shared mission, vision and goals
2. Teacher Leadership: Developing an instructional Leadership Team / fostering teacher leadership
3. Cultural Responsiveness: Recognizing, respecting and employing each student's strengths, diversity, and culture as assets for teaching and learning (cultural responsiveness and attentiveness to equity)
4. Instructional Feedback: Providing meaningful and effective instructional feedback to teachers
5. Change Leadership: Leading through change effectively for continuous improvement
6. Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment: Developing an aligned system
7. Culture: Building a trusting and positive learning culture
    

For more information about our statewide support for school and district leaders, see the Principal Leadership Support Team flyer or find a team member in your area using our Principal Support Contact Look-up tool.

Additional Resources for School Leaders

• School Leadership in Action: Principal Practices video series illustrates how principals are using five practices of effective school leadership to improve teaching and learning in their schools. The practices are based on more than a decade of Wallace-supported research to identify what successful principals do.
   
• The School Principal as Leader: Guiding Schools to Better Teaching and Learning is a Wallace Perspective that summarizes a decade of foundation research and work in school leadership that identifies what effective school principals do. The report concludes that principals who are effective leaders practice five key actions particularly well.