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GLISI curates cutting-edge research, reports, and in-house publications to support the development of leaders from the classroom to the school building to the central office.

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Conditions for Success: A case study of leadership practice in a rural Georgia school district

The inaugural report in our Conditions for Success series, this document is the culmination of a study that explored what leaders were doing and what conditions were present in a small, rural school district in Georgia when the graduation rate increased by 15 or more percentage points from 2007 to 2010 among student groups that struggle with high school completion across the nation.

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The Effective Principal

This short article provides an overview of the five practices research has identified as critical to effective school leadership: 1) shaping a vision; 2) creating a climate hospitable to education; 3) cultivating leadership in others; 4) improving instruction; 5) and managing people, data, and processes.

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Urban Excellence Framework

This tool was created by New Leaders to identify successful practices in schools showing dramatic gains. The framework includes 5 categories of school practices, each of which is further divided into Key Levers that represent a subset of practices used in New Leaders’ highest performing schools.

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Building a Grad Nation

This report serves as an update on the progress of the Civic Marshall Plan, a plan designed to dramatically increase high school graduation rates and college and career readiness in the United States by 2020.

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Eight Elements of High School Improvement: A Mapping Framework

This document offers an 8-point framework for driving systemic reform at the high school level, including a map for the roles of the school, the district, and the state.

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