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    Missouri students benefit from principals’ leadership development

    By Paul Katnik
    Categories: Data, Leadership, Outcomes, System leadership
    June 2024
    With targeted leadership support, Missouri principals are staying in their jobs longer and having a positive impact on student achievement. That’s according to annual evaluations over the past five years of the Missouri Leadership Development System (MLDS), a multiyear, multistakeholder effort to grow the state’s school leaders. As opposed to a one-time program, MLDS is a systemic approach to supporting principals and assistant principals at all levels of experience. Even through the tough years of the COVID-19 pandemic, participating principals felt connected, supported, and able to weather the challenges facing schools. Eight years ago, the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education came together with the state’s leadership associations, regional service centers, and higher education institutions to act on research about the importance of school

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    Paul katnik
    Assistant Commissioner at Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education | + posts

    Paul Katnik is the assistant commissioner of the Office of Educator Quality. Katnik has been in education for over three decades working with children of all ages, K-12, as both a teacher and a building principal. He has served at the Missouri Department of Education for over nearly 20 years, and has been instrumental in coordinating the state model Educator Evaluation System, revising teacher and leader preparation programs, developing the state’s Educator Equity Plan, and creating the Missouri Leadership Development System.


    Categories: Data, Leadership, Outcomes, System leadership

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