"What is the role of the principal in a school that is attempting to improve student learning?"

"The role of the principal is to develop a learning organization so everyone in the organization is learning and growing and developing. And that includes the principal."
from: "Principals Are "Head Learners" at Successful Schools" by Joan Richardson in Results, published by the National Staff Development Council, February, 1999. Exerpted by permission of the National Staff Development Council, 2000.

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