Jeanne Jehl

Jeanne Jehl, administrator on special assignment, San Diego Public Schools, discusses the principal's role in advocating for school-linked, integrated services and increased partnerships with parents. Excerpted from the NCREL monograph "Getting Ready to Provide School-Linked Services: What Schools Must Do" and reprinted with permission from The Future of Children (Vol. 2, No. 1, Spring 1992), a publication of the Center for the Future of Children, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.

"The principal must serve for an advocate for an expanded school role in working with families and other agencies, making the case with his or her peers, community members and school staff. Teachers especially need encouragement and assistance from the principal to expand their agenda to work more actively with families while maintaining their primary focus on academic success."

This Critical Issue summary was researched and written by Kent Peterson, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Date posted: 1995