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The SLN e-newsletter, Network Connect, features pertinent and timely articles on leadership development, suggested readings, organization and network news as well as upcoming events. We also spotlight an individual network or a facilitator in each issue providing an in-depth look the people of SLN.
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What you don't hear about is that the majority of the principals in this country are either good or great principals. These school leaders remain passionate, committed and driven to create the right conditions for students to achieve in every way they can. Every day, great school leaders are . . . read more 
School leadership across the nation is a hot topic! Research has clearly proven that principals are second only to teachers in the impact they can have on a student's academic success. School leaders set the culture and climate of the school, create the belief that all students . . . read more
Mariah Cone, doctoral candidate at the University of California, Los Angeles, has completed her dissertation, "Developing Principal Instructional Leadership through Collaborative Networking" which examines what occurs when principals of urban schools meet together to learn and improve their instructional leadership in collaborative principal networks designed to support, sustain, and provide ongoing principal capacity building. She studied one SLN network of fifteen principals and their facilitator in San Antonio, Texas. read more
Analysis of the NYC Progress Report for the school year 08-09, issued in December 2009, shows that SLN-led schools made bigger gains in student achievement and school environment than peer schools led by principals not participating in SLN programming. read more
The Obama administration’s education policy for improving under-resourced schools includes a targeted focus on school leadership. Central to the supporting education reform agenda, led by Arne Duncan, Secretary of Education, is expanding the number of charter schools nationwide. read more
On June 4th, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Joel Klein, chancellor of the New York City schools announced that more than eight in ten students are meeting or exceeding State math standards. read more
Synopsis of the vision of Dr. Richard Elmore's medical rounds model which will be featured in his new book by the Harvard Press, Instructional Rounds in Education: A Network Approach to Improving Teaching and Learning. read more
Analysis of data collected from August 2006 through June 2008 from 29 NSLN cohorts across the country gives NSLN a good report card for programming, leadership development, impacting student achievement, creating learning communities, professional coaching and support and renewing strength. read more
Exploring the "Val-Ed" model, that the capacity of school leaders to impact student success is linked to a principal's capacity to deploy leadership behaviors, which include leader's knowledge and skills, personal characteristics, and values and beliefs, which shape the culture of learning in a school. read more
