Mix and Match: What Principals Really Look for When Hiring Teachers

By Douglas N. Harris, Stacey A. Rutledge, W. K. Ingle, Cynthia Thompson. Education Finance and Policy, 2010

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Context matters: principals' sensemaking of teacher hiring and on‐the‐job performance (2011, background): “Liu calls attention to the subjective nature of teacher quality in which stakeholders negotiate their individual conceptions and preferences for characteristics with organizational priorities and needs as well as state, federal, and district policies ( Harris et al. , 2010”
A longitudinal study of principals' activities and student performance (2012, background): “These activities fall into five main categories: (a) principals' involvement in framing and sustaining their schools' vision or mission and planning specific goals and strategies for school improvement (Hallinger & Heck, 1998 ; Leithwood, Seashore Louis, Anderson, & Wahlstrom, 2004); (b) instructio”
How Teacher Evaluation Methods Matter for Accountability (2014, background): “While only one of the studies considers the importance of whether teachers are ‘‘caring’’ (Harris et al., 2010), the authors find that this is the most important single characteristic, ahead of strong teaching skills and knowledge of subject matter.”