Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Summary -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- CHAPTER ONE: Introduction -- What We Know About Relationships Between School Leadership and Student Achievement -- The Need for New Systems for Evaluating Principals -- Evaluation Questions -- Organization of This Report -- CHAPTER TWO: Data Sources and Analytic Approach -- Data Sources -- Principal Surveys -- Coach Surveys -- Teacher Survey -- Interviews with Building-Level Staff -- Interviews and Email Communications with District-Level Staff and External Consultants -- Reviews of Documentation -- Principals' Scores on the Administrators' Performance Standard Rubric -- Student Data -- Analytic Approach -- Principal, Coach, and Teacher Survey Data -- Factor Analysis -- Interviews with Building-Level Staff -- District Interviews and Document Review -- Rubric, Achievement, and Bonus Data -- Method for Linking and Jointly Analyzing Rubric and Achievement Data -- Limitations -- CHAPTER THREE: District Context and Pittsburgh Principal Incentive Program Theory of Action -- District Context and Related Reforms -- Theory of Action Overview -- Interventions for Building Capacity -- Professional Development to Improve Leadership -- Evaluation and Feedback -- Mechanisms for Evaluation -- Mechanisms for Feedback: Assistant Superintendent Coaching -- Mechanisms for Feedback: Teaching and Learning Teams -- Incentives -- Salary Increment -- Achievement Bonus -- Determination of Bonus Award Amounts -- Impact on Principals -- Impact on Schools -- Impact on Classrooms and Students -- CHAPTER FOUR: Capacity-Building Interventions -- Professional Development -- Evaluation and Feedback -- Incentives -- Summary of Key Findings.

CHAPTER FIVE: Principals' Leadership Practices, Principals' Skills, and School- and Classroom-Level Responses to the Pittsburgh Principal Incentive Program -- Changes in Principals' Leadership Practices and Skills -- Principals' Practices -- Principals' Perceptions of Their Skills and Need for Support -- Other Staff Perceptions of Principals' Leadership -- Perceived Role of the Pittsburgh Principal Incentive Program -- School- and Classroom-Level Changes -- In-School Professional Development -- Incorporating Data into Instructional Leadership -- Teaching and Learning Teams -- Changes in Classrooms -- Summary -- CHAPTER SIX: Principals' Performance on Rubric and Achievement Measures -- Principals' Performance on the Evaluation Rubric -- Principals' Performance on the Achievement Bonus Measures -- Bonus Payments and Principals' Mobility -- Summary -- CHAPTER SEVEN: Student Achievement Trends -- Achievement Trends -- Addressing Racial/Ethnic and Socioeconomic Achievement Gaps -- Summary -- CHAPTER EIGHT: Key Findings and Recommendations -- Key Findings -- What Is the District's Theory of Action Regarding How the Pittsburgh Principal Incentive Program Is Expected to Promote Improved Student Outcomes? -- How Were the Pittsburgh Principal Incentive Program Capacity-Building Interventions Implemented, and How Have Principals Responded to Them? -- In What Ways Did Principals' Skills and Practices Change over the Course of the Pittsburgh Principal Incentive Program? -- What Conditions Changed at the School and Classroom Levels over the Course of the Pittsburgh Principal Incentive Program? -- How Did Principals Perform on the Rubric and Bonus Measures, and How Was Performance Related to Principal Mobility? -- How Did Student Achievement Change During the Course of the Pittsburgh Principal Incentive Program, and How Did Racial and Socioeconomic Gaps Change?.

Recommendations -- Recommendations for Evaluation System and Measure Development -- Recommendations for Implementation -- Conclusion -- References.

This report examines Pittsburgh Public Schools' implementation and outcomes of the Pittsburgh Principal Incentive Program from school years 2007-2008 through 2010-2011, how principals and other school staff have responded to the reforms, and what outcomes accompanied program implementation.

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