New Professional Standards for Principals

Posted by on March 03, 2014

New professional standards for California principals approved include restorative justice and focus on community engagement

Setting a clear expectation that schools should be a place of safety and fairness, the Commission on Teacher Credentialing adopted Thursday new standards for school principals that embrace restorative justice practices.

The standards, adopted more than a decade ago as some of the first in the nation to set comprehensive goals for school leaders, are intended to serve as a basis for measuring competence throughout the career of today’s site principals, district administrators and county level managers.

Although a key element of the new standards is a series of non-binding example indicators, architects of the program said the detailed description of desired activity should prove valuable to school managers as well as parents and policy makers.

“We spent a lot of time discussing whether these should be sample indicators or required elements – we want to be clear, these are items that you could use to evaluate but there are others,” said Teri Burns, a senior policy director at the California School Boards Association and a member of the work group that designed the standards update.

Read more: https://cabinetreport.com/human-resources/new-professional-standards-for-ca-principals-approved

New standards: http://www.ctc.ca.gov/commission/agendas/2014-02/2014-02-6B.pdf