Education Leadership
IES is currently accepting applications for this research program. For your convenience, you may download the full FY 2009 Education Research RFA below.
Download the full 84.305A Education Research RFA
Download, view, & print as a PDF (586 KB)
Note: FY 2009 applicants that include subawards for work conducted at collaborating institutions should use this template to provide subaward budget information.
Download, view & print the form as an Excel file (164 KB).
Description of Research Program
The Institute's Education Leadership research program addresses five goals: (1) identifying the behaviors, practices, and characteristics of education leaders (e.g., principals, district superintendents) that are associated with better student outcomes from kindergarten through Grade 12, and identifying programs and practices for the professional development of education leaders that are associated with better student outcomes (e.g., student achievement, high school graduation) from kindergarten through Grade 12, as well as mediators and moderators of the relations between student outcomes and these leadership characteristics, programs, or practices; (2) developing new 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. In this Request for Applications, the term professional development refers to the in-service training of current leaders.
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