FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Jan. 23, 2012 

Contact: Julie White, jwhite@acsa.org; (916) 329-3832 



Research has repeatedly shown that quality school leadership is essential to student success, and there is no better time to honor the state’s educational leaders than during Week of the School Administrator, March 4-10, 2012.

“Naturally, as an association of school leaders, ACSA has always known how important school leaders are,” said ACSA Executive Director Bob Wells. “It’s one thing to know that experientially and anecdotally, but the scientific research clearly backs all that up by showing that after the classroom teacher, school leaders have the single biggest impact on student achievement of any other factor.” 



Great schools are led by great principals, and great school districts by great superintendents. Those leaders in turn are supported by a network of dedicated administrative professionals, including special education and adult education leaders, curriculum experts, school business officials and classified educational leaders, among many others. 



Because Leadership Matters for California’s public schools, the state of California has declared the first full week in March as the Week of the School Administrator. 



To assist schools and districts in recognizing their own during this time, ACSA has developed a sample resolution for Week of the School Administrator. Download the sample resolution at www.acsa.org/wosaresolution.

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