This report, P-3 in Principal Preparation: Leveraging School Leadership to Improve Early Learning and the Early Grades, is grounded in a vision to close both opportunity and achievement gaps that have persisted for decades. The report focuses on five policy drivers that can influence elementary principals’ skills and knowledge at scale – state policy; the policies and practices of both institutions of higher education and school districts; research; and national organizations. Backed by compelling research, the Call to Action brings together the independent fields of P-3 and school leadership to offer bold and practical strategies to transform early learning and the early grades.
A 28-page Full Report that provides a review of research and in-depth discussion of each driver is also available.