1、12Post-pandemic NationalEducational Investments:School Leadership Development throughInnovative Learning Designsby Shelby Cosner and Asmaa Alfadala3Introduction4As educational systems throughout the globe grapple with educating students following multiple years of disruption to education,key observa
2、tions can be made.First,focused attention to strengthening student learning will have positive consequences for children in school,their overall life outcomes,as well as for societies more generally(Education Commission,2016).Stated simply,education is recognized as life-saving especially for the mo
3、st vulnerable children,as well as for the economic recovery,development and success of nations(Brewer et al.,2007;General Secretariat for Development Planning GSDP,2011;Reuge et al.,2021;UNICEF,2013).Second,school principals will be increasingly at the center of efforts within schools to develop,gui
4、de,and accelerate student learning.Our understanding of the importance of principals has deepened over the last 20 years.Noteworthy evidence of the impact of principals on student learning has been advanced in the United States from a growing body of research on the impacts of school leadership usin
5、g improved,more robust research methods(Grissom et al.,2021).These findings led this research team to conclude that“principals have a large effect on student learning,approaching even the effects of individual teachers”(Grissom et al.,2021,p.4).The importance of school principals to student learning
6、 has also been documented in settings beyond the US to include contexts not affiliated with the Organization for Educational Cooperation and Develoment(OECD)(e.g.,Beycioglu and Kondakci,2014;Bloom et al.,2015;Leaver,Lemos,and Scur,2019).We also now know that school leaders have a notable,though,indi