Better Principals, Better Schools: What Star Principals Know, Believe, and Do

'A school is only as good as its principal'. This quip forms the thesis of Better Principals as it provides a bird’s eye view on the enactment of Haberman’s eleven core functions of a star principal.

Better Principals is imperative for two main reasons.

First, the achievement gap between 20 million children in poverty and their mainstream counterparts is continuing to become even wider. Many students are constantly subjected to inequality of educational opportunity, which limits their futur...