Making Effective Elementary Principals and P-3 the Expectation, Not the Exception

Sustainable reforms to early learning and the early grades rely on school leadership. This webinar will revisit an earlier session on why elementary principals matter and what skills and knowledge effective principals have. While a range of P-3 leadership programs for principals have emerged organically across the country, recent work led by the National P-3 Center considers an “upstream” strategy. This strategy focuses on infusing P-3 into principal preparation programs and ensuring school districts have a sturdy pipeline of excellent and effective elementary principals. States, school districts, institutions of higher education, national organizations, and researchers all are drivers for meaningful change to ensure that effective P-3 leadership becomes an expectation, rather than the exception, for elementary principals. This session will investigate each of these drivers, and highlight what can be learned from Illinois’s efforts to systematize P-3 leadership skills for all elementary principals.

Attendees will hear from:

• Tai M. Basurto, Ed.D., Director of School Leader Development, Chicago Public Schools
• Kristie Kauerz, Ed.D., Research Professor, School of Education & Human Development, University of Colorado, Denver, Executive Director, National P–3 Center
• Steve Tozer, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Chicago
• Rotunda Floyd-Cooper, Ed.D., Vice President, The Wallace Foundation, Moderator.