Poster #1 - Are They Similar or Different? Identifying Leadership Skills and Competencies Necessary to Lead High-Needs Schools

• In Event: 79.052 - MTCC Poster Session 19
  In Poster Session: 79.052-1 - Division A Section 1 Posters: Leadership in a Modicum of Contexts

Abstract

Recent studies of principal evaluation systems found a negative correlation between school poverty status and principal evaluation scores. This may suggest that the current evaluation systems do not reflect unique challenges that principals serving high-poverty schools face, leading to a downward bias in evaluation scores. We investigate what challenges these principals face, and what leadership skills and traits they think are necessary to run their schools successfully through qualitative interviews of principals in New Jersey.

Authors

• Hajime Mitani, Rowan University

• Cecile Huynh Sam, Rowan University