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Principal Perceptions Of The Effectiveness Of Wvbe Policy 5800: Standards Of Professional Practice For West Virginia Superintendents, Principals And Teacher Leaders, Allen Ray Laugh Jr.
Principal Perceptions Of The Effectiveness Of Wvbe Policy 5800: Standards Of Professional Practice For West Virginia Superintendents, Principals And Teacher Leaders, Allen Ray Laugh Jr.
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Since the late 1980s, standards for students and teachers began to be the focus of education, creating demands and pressures on school leaders to become more than managers of a school. This change of focus expanded to include principals and required school leaders to possess instructional leadership qualities beyond managerial skills. In 2010, the West Virginia Board of Education enacted the Standards of Professional Practice for West Virginia Superintendents, Principals and Teacher Leaders (WVBE Policy 5800) to guide West Virginia educational leaders toward instructional leadership. The purpose of this study was to gain West Virginia principals’ perceptions at all grade …