Launching a Redesign of University Principal Preparation Programs: Partners Collaborate for Change

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“Choose Your Own Adventure”: Web-Based Case Studies of Inclusive Education as a Form of Professional Learning for School Principals

“…The cases were viewed as rich learning tasks and participants identified the case studies as a valuable form of professional learning. This aspect aligns with recommendations for principals' professional learning to focus on active learning which incorporates a significant amount of real-life experiences (Wang et al, 2018). Similarly, Tucker and Dexter (2011) identify a number of key benefits of online cases, which are reflected in the choose your own adventure form of professional learning from this study, including learner-determined pathways, realtime display of information, and scaffolding of decisions.…”

“…Authenticity. First, web-based case studies need to be developed which authentically represent problems of practice (Cosner, 2019;Wang et al, 2018). The participants in this study noted that one of the defining aspects of the case studies was that they were based on actual events and authentically reflected their lived experiences.…”

Portuguese Principals’ Professional Development Needs and Preferred Learning Methods

“…Moreover, as Wang and collaborators [22] mentioned: "The curricula in principal preparation programs do not emphasise leadership skills that have a demonstrated relationship with school and student success and that are most relevant to the work of today's principals. Instead, most programmes emphasise technical content."…”

Hegemony, Principal Preparation, and the Language of the Oppressor: The Elusive Preparation of Socially Just School Leaders

“…Most recently, in 2018, the RAND Corporation, with funding from the Wallace Foundation, released a report entitled "Launching a Redesign of University Principal Preparation Programs: Partners Collaborate for Change" (Wang et al, 2018). This report was published using data collected from the first year of the 4-year University Principal Preparation Initiative (UPPI) funded by the Wallace Foundation.…”