The role of the head in school improvement
By Michael Fullan, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
On the principalship itself, the opportunity to learn on the job through problem-based conferences, networking and linking to the big picture will make the position exciting and uplifting (see Elmore and Burney, 1999, for one example at school district level). In short, school leadership must be doable and rewarding. It must offer opportunities to learn on the job and to give heads the feeling that they are part and parcel of a larger effort to make a difference in society as a whole.
對於校長本身，在工作中學習的機會，通過問題導向的討論，建立關係網絡和結合大圖像會使校長職位更有趣與振奮的。總之，學校領導必須是可行的和有意義的。必須給予校長在工作中學習的機會，並讓他們感覺到，對於改變社會的工作上，校長扮演非常重要的角色。
One last caution. As important as the principal is, quality teachers are obviously even more important. Thus, policy development must enhance the status, role and accountability of the teaching profession. First, quality teachers make quality heads. The stronger the pool of good teachers, the stronger that future heads will be as they come from the pool. In numbers, heads will be only as strong as the teaching force is in the first place. Secondly, because schools are organisations and because the principal is the head of the organisation, it falls to him or her to focus on school-wide capacity which is essential to bringing out the best in teachers.
最後的提醒是，對於學校的發展，校長是很重要的，但優質教師更重要。因此，在政策制定方面，必須提高教學專業的地位，角色和責任。首先，有優秀教師就會產生優秀校長。有更強的教師來源，就會有更強的校長。在數量上，只有站在首位，校長方能與教師們一樣強。其二，由於學校是一個組織，校長是組織的領導者。因此，集中全校能力，培育出最好的教師，是校長不可或缺的責任。
Ironically, up to the present everyone acknowledges how crucial school heads are, but there has been little attention paid to making them more effective. This will have to change if we are to "go to scale" in seeing the majority of our schools do well.
諷刺的是，現在大家都承認校長是多麼重要，但卻一直很少關注，以使他們更有效。如果我們想要看到大部分的學校都發展得很好，這必須要改變。
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