Standards for Leading Learning Communities

Guides for those who care about creating and supporting education quality.

Standards for What Principals Should Know and Be Able To Do
The National Association of Elementary School Principals' (NAESP) guide, Leading Learning Communities: Standards for What Principals Should Know and Be Able To Do, presents the voices of elementary and middle level principals who state their belief that everything a principal does in school must be focused on ensuring the learning of adults and students.

NAESP takes a fresh look at the role of school leader. Influenced by the academic standards movement -- which is demanding that we focus on equity and instruction as never before -- schools are thinking anew about how to define "quality" in schools and how to create and manage the environments that support it.

Leading Learning Communities: What Principals Should Know and Be Able To Do identifies six standards that NAESP believes together characterize instructional leadership in schools. Click on the Principal Standards PDF link below to download a copy of the book (102 pages), published in 2002.

The book has been revised and updated with a second edition published in 2008. To download an executive summary (8 pages) of the second edition, click on the REVISED Principal Standards PDF link below.



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Mission: The Minnesota Elementary School Principals' Association is dedicated to promoting and improving education for children and youth, strengthening the role as educational leader for elementary and middle level principals, and collaborating with partners in education to assist in achieving these goals.

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