THE WALLACE FOUNDATION'S PRINCIPAL PIPELINE INITIATIVE: DEVELOPING ASSISTANT PRINCIPALS

Prince George's County, near Washington, D.C., is one of six urban school districts that is participating in The Wallace Foundation's Principal Pipeline Initiative, a program targeted to help districts develop a much larger corps of effective school principals by selecting and developing strong assistant principals to become principals. NASSP Executive Director JoAnn Bartoletti recently talked with Doug Anthony, executive director for talent management of Prince George's County Public Schools in Upper Marlboro, MD, and Falecia McMillian, principal of North Forestville Elementary School in Forestville, MD, about the district's strategic effort to develop assistant principals into principals. Last year, we started an assistant principal induction program that provides an executive leadership team to support assistant principals, and we have assistant principal meetings every month.