Recommendations Build the capacity of principals to provide instructional leadership.
Federal, state, and local education agencies should promote strategies for building the capacity of principals to provide the quality of instructional leadership demonstrated by the principals in the nine schools studied. Channel resources in ways that provide additional instructional leadership to schools. Federal, state, and local education agencies should consider other ways to increase the quantity and quality of instructional leadership available to schools. One of the most powerful uses of Title I resources at the nine schools was the development of instructional facilitator or specialist positions within schools. These specialists worked with teachers on a daily basis in improving classroom instruction.