Over the last year and a half, I have been working for the University of the State of New York Regents Research Fund as a Project Director for NYSED. The program is funded by the Wallace Foundation, whose generosity and interest in education leadership is profound. As Project Director I oversee the development and execution of six Principal Preparation Partnerships Pilot Programs (Holy alliteration Batman!). These programs represent a fresh approach to testing out ideas that NYSED previously gathered from education leaders throughout the state (superintendents, principals, teachers, college professors, leadership organizations). The motivation for the advisory committee's work in the first place was mainly a general dissatisfaction with the school building leader graduate's readiness to take on the responsibilities of being an Assistant Principal, or Principal position. They were the education version of "not ready for primetime". The focus of the committee's re
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