Video Collection

Since 2017, our REL West Educator Effectiveness (EE) Alliance has convened state and district leaders from Arizona, California, Nevada, and Utah to learn from experts about their latest research on evidence-based leadership supports. These states are in different phases of rolling out new statewide supports for site leaders.

At REL West’s regional events, state and district teams have worked closely with invited experts to shape and improve their support strategies and practices. These sessions have been captured in a series of short videos. These REL West videos can be worthwhile to review and discuss as a leadership team. While the videos were all developed before the pandemic, many of the topics remain as timely as ever.

Explore this series of free videos that describe how states and districts can support and develop principals. In the videos, research experts explore and grapple with such key questions as:

How do principals influence student learning?

Elaine Allensworth describes her work with the Chicago Consortium on School Research investigating how strong principals improve student learning, including discussion of several case studies.

How can local principal supervisors (district leaders) best support principals?

Ellen Goldring describes lessons learned from the Wallace Foundation’s Principal Supervisor Initiative, which helped six urban school districts refine principal supervision to better support principals to improve instruction in schools.

What conditions need to be in place for principal supervisors to succeed?

Meredith Honig describes what effective principal supervision looks like and the conditions that need to be in place to support it.

What evidence underlies different leadership development options?

Using the federal ESSA law's evidence tiers, Rebecca Herman describes the current evidence base underlying leadership development interventions and their components.

What does it mean to have a strong pipeline of principals? and How can leaders know if their professional learning for principals is effective?

Susan Gates describes the findings from RAND’s Principal Pipeline Initiative study examining the impact and affordability of collaborative preparation, selective hiring and placement, and on-the-job support practices in six large urban school districts.

REL West is excited to continue to help our partners in the field learn together and support school leaders in 2021.