{"id":22298,"date":"2014-06-24T15:59:58","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T19:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=22298"},"modified":"2014-06-24T16:46:28","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T20:46:28","slug":"broward-schools-win-grant-to-study-principal-supervision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2014\/06\/24\/broward-schools-win-grant-to-study-principal-supervision\/","title":{"rendered":"Broward Schools Win Grant To Study Principal Supervision"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_22299\"  class=\"wp-caption module image left\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Broward County schools have won a Wallace Foundation grant to study the best ways to supervise principals.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2014\/06\/6-24-PrincipalsOffice.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22299\" alt=\"Broward County schools have won a Wallace Foundation grant to study the best ways to supervise principals.\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2014\/06\/6-24-PrincipalsOffice-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2014\/06\/6-24-PrincipalsOffice-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2014\/06\/6-24-PrincipalsOffice-620x414.jpg 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2014\/06\/6-24-PrincipalsOffice.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Eric E. Castro \/ Flickr<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Broward County schools have won a Wallace Foundation grant to study the best ways to supervise principals.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Broward County schools have won a multimillion dollar, five-year grant to help improve supervision of district principals.<\/p>\n<p>The grant is part of a $30 million nationwide effort from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wallacefoundation.org\/Pages\/default.aspx\">Wallace Foundation<\/a> to focus on a little-noticed slice of school administration in 14 urban districts. The foundation hopes districts spend more time developing principals&#8217; school leadership skills.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In many large school districts, principal supervisors oversee too many principals &#8211; 24 on average &#8211; and focus too much on bureaucratic compliance,&#8221; Jody Spiro, the Wallace Foundation&#8217;s director of education leadership, said in a statement. &#8220;This new initiative aims to help districts move principal supervisors&#8217; focus to one of support, freeing them to better coach and develop principals to help them improve instruction.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The program has four goals: Reduce the number of principals supervisors oversee; focus more on developing principals; find ways to change central administration to support principal supervisors; and study how well the changes work.<\/p>\n<p>The lessons learned in Broward will be part of a $2.5 million study of whether putting more resources into supervision will improve principals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Broward County schools have won a multimillion dollar, five-year grant to help improve supervision of district principals. The grant is part of a $30 million nationwide effort from the Wallace Foundation to focus on a little-noticed slice of school administration in 14 urban districts. The foundation hopes districts spend more time developing principals&#8217; school leadership [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":22299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[1051,1063,960],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22298"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22298"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22302,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22298\/revisions\/22302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}