TY  - GEN
N2  - The principal story portrays the challenges principals face in turning around low-performing public schools and raising student achievement. This intimate, emotional one-year journey is seen through the eyes of two dynamic principals: one in only her second year in the Chicago Public School System; and the other, a seven-year veteran in Springfield, IL. The film reveals the struggles these leaders face as they keep their focus on improving teaching and learning amid the competing demands of managing their staffs and engaging their students and communities.
AB  - The principal story portrays the challenges principals face in turning around low-performing public schools and raising student achievement. This intimate, emotional one-year journey is seen through the eyes of two dynamic principals: one in only her second year in the Chicago Public School System; and the other, a seven-year veteran in Springfield, IL. The film reveals the struggles these leaders face as they keep their focus on improving teaching and learning amid the competing demands of managing their staffs and engaging their students and communities.
T1  - The principal story
DA  - c2009.
CY  - [Chicago, Ill.] :
AU  - Lending, Tod S.,
AU  - Mrazek, David,
CN  - LB2831.924.I3
CN  - LB2831.924.I3
PB  - POV :
PB  - Nomadic Pictures :
PB  - Wallace Foundation,
PP  - [Chicago, Ill.] :
PY  - c2009.
N1  - Originally telecast as part of the PBS Point of View series in 2009.
N1  - Title from container.
N1  - "The principal story was produced by Ethno Pictures in association with Nomadic Pictures ... "
N1  - "DVD includes North Grand, a 25-minute special documentary on how a determined high school principal in Chicago transformed her vision for high student achievement into reality; outtakes; an interview with the filmmakers"--Container.
ID  - 467133
KW  - Elementary school principals
KW  - Elementary school principals
KW  - Educational leadership
TI  - The principal story
ER  -