The NGA Center co-hosted a meeting for states interested in learning more about evaluating school principals. This was a join meeting with the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) and the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL). The state teams learned from experts and researchers and shared information across states. Topics included the use of multiple measures to evaluate principals, state approaches to evaluating principals, the need to evaluate principals, and principal evaluation tools.

PRESENTATIONS:

• Why We Need to Evaluate Principals
  • Jackie Wilson, director, University of Delaware, Delaware Academy for School Leadership
• State Approaches to Evaluating Principals
  • Sara Heyburn, policy advisor, Tennessee Department of Education
  • Senator Kimberly Lightford, senate assistant majority leader, Illinois Senate
• Using Multiple Measures to Evaluate Principals
  • Margaret Terry Orr, faculty, Bank Street College
  • Anthony Milanowski, senior research associate, Westat
  • Tricia McManus, manager of leadership development, Hillsborough County Public Schools
• Principal Evaluation Tools
  • Andy Porter, Dean and George and Diane Weiss Professor, University of Pennsylvania
  • Joni Henderson, director, Discovery Education
  • John Bell, Coordinator, Leadership and Evaluation, Alabama State Department of Education
• A Roadmap for Principal Evaluation
  • Robin Gelinas, senior policy advisor, Education Counsel, LLC