Stayers, Movers, and Leavers: Impact of an Educator Effectiveness System on Retaining Administrators Nationwide

• In Event: 44.028 - Understanding Leader Effects: Preparation, Experience, and Retention

Abstract

Recognizing principals’ considerable influence over the functioning of the school and impact on the surrounding community, federal and state efforts have increasingly emphasized the importance of effective principals. This paper examines the impact of one comprehensive reform model, TAPTM: The System for Teacher and Student Advancement, on administrator retention. Using 2011-12, 2012-13, and 2013-14 data, this study examines administrators who remained in TAP schools, transferred TAP schools, or left TAP schools altogether. Findings demonstrate the average TAP school retained more administrators than the average non-TAP school. Also, administrators who worked at TAP schools continuously, regardless of whether it was the same TAP school or a different TAP school, increased in their effectiveness from one school year to the next.

Authors

• Tanee Hudgens, National Institute for Excellence in Teaching

• Joshua H. Barnett, National Institute for Excellence in Teaching