ABSTRACT
This chapter describes how principal supervisors in six districts used their time with principals. Drawing upon survey and interview data from the Principal Supervisor Initiative (PSI), a four-year effort aimed at improving the quality of support principal supervisors provide to principals, we discuss (a) the frequency and content of principals' meetings with their supervisors, (b) principals' responses to their supervisors' support, and (c) the barriers principals and principal supervisors faced in their ability to find time to work together. Across the six districts, the average principal supervisor spent 61% of their time working with principals and spent the majority of that time focusing on instructional leadership issues. However, supervisor time use with principals varied in both intentional and unintentional ways. We end with a set of lessons for districts seeking to improve the quantity and quality of the time supervisors spend with principals.
