Program Announcement: Education Leadership CFDA 84.305A

Program Officer:
Dr. Katina Stapleton
Katina.Stapleton@ed.gov
(202) 219-2154

Purpose

The Institute's Education Leadership research program addresses five goals: (1) exploring malleable factors¹ (e.g., skills of principals; management practices) that are associated with better student outcomes for students from kindergarten through high school, as well as mediators and moderators of the relations between these factors and student outcomes, for the purpose of identifying potential targets of intervention; (2) developing innovative programs and practices for the professional development, recruitment, or retention of education leaders that will result in improving the teaching and learning environment at the local level and, ultimately, student learning and achievement; (3) evaluating the efficacy of programs and practices for the professional development, recruitment, or retention of education leaders for improving the teaching and learning environment and, ultimately, student learning and achievement; (4) evaluating the impact of programs and practices for the professional development, recruitment, or retention of education leaders that are implemented at scale and intended for improving the teaching and learning environment and through it, student learning and achievement; and (5) developing and validating new assessments of the quality of education leaders, or validating existing assessments of education leaders against measures of student achievement from kindergarten through high school.

Long-term outcomes of the Education Leadership program will be an array of tools and strategies (e.g., in-service programs, policies, assessments) that have been demonstrated to be effective for improving and assessing the performance of education leaders (e.g., principals, superintendents) in ways that are linked to increases in student achievement. By "professional development" the Institute refers to in-service training for current education leaders.