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Download full textNew Leaders (NJ1), 2011
New Leaders created the Effective Practice Incentive Community (EPIC) initiative in 2006 to learn from educators driving achievement gains in high-need urban schools. EPIC identifies school leaders and teachers whose students are making significant achievement gains and financially rewards these educators in exchange for sharing and documenting…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Charter Schools, Public Schools, Academic Achievement
New Leaders (NJ1), 2011
A principal's job, first and foremost, is to diagnose their school's needs and match them to effective principal actions and school practices that drive student success. Successful principals use their diagnosis to build an action plan that pushes their school--and student achievement--to the next level. New Leaders developed the Urban Excellence…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Principals, Institutional Mission, Strategic Planning
Sloan, Kay; Pereira-Leon, Maura; Honeyford, Michelle – New Leaders for New Schools (NJ1), 2012
Established in 2006 by New Leaders for New Schools[TM], the Effective Practice Incentive Community (EPIC) initiative rewards high-need urban schools showing significant gains in student achievement. In exchange, schools agree to share the practices helping to drive those gains, which they do through an in-depth study of practice, aided by the EPIC…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Instructional Leadership
Sloan, Kay; Pereira-Leon, Maura; Honeyford, Michelle – New Leaders for New Schools (NJ1), 2010
In 2009-10, New Leaders for New Schools partnered with the Perspectives Charter School Network in Chicago to pilot an innovative leadership development program for principals. The program is part of the Effective Practice Incentive Community (EPIC) initiative, which was created by New Leaders in 2006 to identify, reward, and share effective…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Principals, Urban Schools, Academic Achievement
Sloan, Kay; Perreira-Leon, Maura – New Leaders for New Schools (NJ1), 2010
With the creation of the Effective Practice Incentive Community (EPIC), New Leaders for New Schools hoped to accomplish two broad and ambitious goals. The first was to identify and reward leadership practices driving significant achievement gains in high-poverty, urban schools. The second was to learn from those practices and make them more widely…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Poverty, Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains
New Leaders for New Schools (NJ1), 2010
Effective principals are those who boost academic achievement for all students, increase the effectiveness of their teaching staffs, and consistently take leadership actions shown to improve outcomes for students. Therefore principal evaluation systems should place 70% of their weight on the ability of principals to increase student achievement…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Academic Achievement, Accountability, Professional Development
