Quality School Leadership Identification (QSL-ID): Your Link to Strong School Leaders (Resource for SIG applicants)

High-performing and dramatically improving schools are led by strong principals. District staff know the importance of hiring and supporting quality school principals but are often left on their own to define a hiring process and create hiring tools.

In response to this challenge, Learning Point Associates offers Quality School Leadership Identification (QSL-ID), a standardized hiring procedure built from research-based tools that hiring committees can use to reach consensus when selecting a new school principal.

QSL-ID consists of the following:

* The QSL-ID tool, a standardized process for selecting high-quality school principal candidates. QSL-ID can help school superintendents and boards weigh applicants for school principal vacancies and match applicants to school needs.
* Candidate evaluation rubrics that provide a systematic approach to collecting and weighing information about each candidate, a bank of interview questions, and a screening checklist.
* The Quality School Leadership Identification Facilitator’s Guide, which provides a step-by-step process that the hiring committee chairperson can use in working with the hiring committee and selecting a candidate. The major components of the Facilitator’s Guide include the following: