Everything he or she can!
Okay, specifically, there is a list I learned about: staff development, curriculum development, individual teachers, individual students, school culture, leadership, management, school performance, and equity issues. When a Principal focuses on even one of these issues as an action research or an inquiry, he or she puts themselves in a position of improving test scores, improving attendance rates, lowering discipline problems, and boosting moral for teachers, students, and parents. Why wouldn't a Principal want those benefits?
It is a daunting task to try to pick just one. My suggestion, choose something that you are already having issues with. Make it a part of something you must do anyway (for Principals meetings, district meetings, or staff development). This way, it's not something added to your plate but rather something that you are already needing and wanting to do for improvement. Our plates are full as Administrators...so, don't approach inquiry as something new but rather as something that already fits into what you are doing.
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