Georgia’s Leadership Institute for School Improvement provides Performance-based Modules for download free of charge that may be used in schools as well as university preparation programs.
The School Administration Managers (SAMs) initiative, funded by The Wallace Foundation and coordinated by Mark Shellinger, is a national initiative that studies the use of time and the conditions that seem to keep school leaders from making instructional leadership their priority.
The Illinois New Principal Mentoring (INPM) Program, managed by the Illinois Principals Association provides new principals with the individualized mentoring support they need to successfully transition into effective educational leaders. Results from a New Principal Survey identify areas in which new principals feel they need the most assistance in preparing for their new role.
The Illinois Distinguished Principal Leadership Institute (IDPLI), is designed to improve student performance by expanding the leadership knowledge, skills, and attitudes of principals in five leadership performance strands.
A rubric for each leadership performance strand describes the expected performance on a 5-point Likert scale. The rubrics are designed to measure the knowledge and skills embedded in a curriculum framework and content for each leadership performance strand of the IDPLI. The rubrics are useful for both formative and summative assessments.
The Leadership Performance Planning Worksheet was developed to help new leaders identify, organize, and effectively lead instructional improvement in their schools through developing mastery of a subset of key leader behaviors that have been found to develop capacity to perform instructional leadership.
The Illinois Teaching, Leading and Learning (TeLL) survey serves as a mechanism in Illinois for collecting data on working conditions at the school level.
This educational practice guide developed by the Institute of Education Sciences provides evidence-based recommendations for use by educators aiming to quickly and dramatically improve student achievement in low-performing schools.
A toolkit supported through Wallace funds that provides new and aspiring principals resources around some of the key issues that they face. The site includes video vignettes from different leaders talking about the challenges and strategies around this work.
The Chicago Tribune has created a powerful new search engine allow searches and comparisons of any public school in the state, including a break down by subject, race and income.
The Interactive Illinois School Report Card the premier web site for test results and other school accountability information for Illinois schools