The National Center for Education Research (NCER) supports rigorous research that addresses the nation’s most pressing education needs, from early childhood to adult education.
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The Institute of Education Sciences will host a series of webinars to present research funding opportunities at the National Center for Special Education Research and the National Center for Education Research.
For more information regarding webinar topics, dates, and registration process, please visit http://ies.ed.gov/funding/webinars.asp.
All webinar sessions are full. Sessions will be recorded and made available on the website soon. Please register for the IES Newsflash http://ies.ed.gov/newsflash/ for information about future webinars.
Coaching Education Leaders
There is a pressing demand for schools to improve academic knowledge and skills, as well as to ensure that students complete high school with the skills necessary for success in the workplace or in postsecondary education. In today’s high-stakes accountability environment, a prime responsibility of school principals is to ensure that their schools reach these goals. Leadership coaching has emerged as one approach for improving the skills of school leaders. Although leadership coaching interventions vary, typically coaches act as mentors, helping principals establish goals, priorities, and school improvement plans, and providing feedback on job-related tasks and skills. Little empirical evidence exists, however, that links coaching of school leaders to increased student achievement and improvement on other dimensions of school operation. NCER currently supports two projects on the development and evaluation of coaching programs for education leaders (click on the links below to learn more). For its research program on education leadership, NCER solicits research on different approaches for improving education leadership and for assessing the quality of education leaders. Please contact the program officer listed below to find out about more about the education leadership research program.
The Coaching Model: A Collaborative Pilot Program
Brian Riedlinger, School Leadership Center of Greater New Orleans
Improving Principal Leadership Through Feedback and Coaching Leonard Bickman, Vanderbilt University
Program Officer, Education Leadership
Katina Stapleton
