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The Leaders We Need Now Study

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Now more than ever, school principals are vital to student development, school safety, and educational equity. In 2020, principals were called upon to lead differently by supporting teachers and students in transitioning between online, hybrid, and in-person learning and deepening relationships with families and communities experiencing social injustice. As the nation begins to recover from grips of the pandemic, educational leaders are considering how the principalship has changed and how principal support must change to better address the whole child and the inequities affecting students and communities.

The National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP) and AIR have launched the Leaders We Need Now study to examine how principals’ work has changed—and needs to shift—in 2021 and beyond. Over 200 public elementary school principals from across the United States will talk about the actions that they have taken to support schools through COVID-19, how they believe that their work has indelibly changed, and what states, districts, and others can do to better support principals now and in the future.

With financial support from The Joyce Foundation, the Leaders We Need Now study is currently recruiting principals from the 17,000 elementary principals within NAESP. The project will release several briefs in spring and summer, 2021.

NAESP and the American Institutes for Research Join Forces to Conduct Leaders We Need Now Study
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Matthew A. Clifford

Principal Researcher

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Equity in Education
Principal Preparation and Performance

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