Anderson later worked at New Leaders for New Schools, which trained principals as reform leaders.
European universities are tackling this problem by providing more courses and resources to train principal investigators in management and leadership.
"The idea of continuing to train principals for the crucible of leadership in night school is an idea that is now being reconsidered across the country".
Rather than training principals to interrogate, schools should focus on non-punitive approaches like in-school behavior modification, mentorship, and diversion tactics.
D.C. schools officials said they are working to train principals to accurately track suspensions and help school leaders engineer a major shift in their approach to discipline.
The city's Education Department now has a team that trains principals in gathering the kind of evidence needed to assess a teacher's skills.
They had failed to properly train principals and teachers in the event that a new evaluation system was put in place.
"Students cannot wait for accountable teachers while adults argue," Ms. Rhee said on Oct. 2, announcing that the district would seek to dismiss even tenured teachers deemed ineffective, partly by training principals to manage a little-used procedure that allows them to identify teachers for a 90-day mandatory improvement plan.
More than a dozen educational foundations and nonprofit organizations are engaged in similar work, and last year Eli Broad, chairman of the Los Angeles-based financial services company Sun America, said he was setting aside $100 million for urban school systems, to help train principals and superintendents.
James Conway, of the Minneapolis-based Search Institute, an organisation with evangelical links which bills itself as "working to promote positive change with and for young people", was invited to Benedict primary by its Christian sponsors, Chapel St, which says that Conway spent three days training principals and teachers from across its eight schools in supporting disadvantaged children.
Ms. Anderson, who holds degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, and Harvard University, is well known among educators nationally for her previous work as executive director of Teach for America and as chief program officer for New Leaders for New Schools, a group that trains principals.
