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How Can Districts Retain Principals? A 5-Year Project Offers Clues

Five years ago, the George W. Bush Institute embarked on a project to find out what practical and policy changes districts could make to keep good principals in schools.

The project posited that making specific changes around how principals are recruited, how they are managed and evaluated, and their working conditions would increase on-the-job satisfaction and, ultimately, keep principals in the profession.

But the project, which ran from 2017-2021, was not just about making changes to district policies around those key issues, as well as others like compensation. It was also about how well the districts went about implementing the changes.

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