The Principal Effect: A Key Strategy for Tackling Today's School Challenges

As policymakers and education leaders seek solutions for addressing chronic absenteeism, student mental health, targeted teacher shortages, and the learning recovery challenges facing today’s schools, the focus is often on single solutions. But there is an overarching factor that research tells us is critical for improving all of these outcomes: effective principals. How exactly do principals shape the conditions for the students and teachers in the buildings they lead? And what kinds of learning opportunities do principals need to be effective?

Watch Linda Darling-Hammond, founding President and Chief Knowledge Officer at the Learning Policy Institute; Bronwyn Bevan, Vice President of Research at The Wallace Foundation; and field experts to learn more about the evidence base around investing in principals as a key strategy for addressing today’s school challenges.