This case study report accompanies the report Putting Professional Learning to Work: What Principals Do with Their Executive Development Learning (available at www.rand.org/t/RR3082).  The main report provides findings from part of RAND’s evaluation of the National Institute for School Leadership Executive Development Program, a leadership program for sitting school principals  The evaluation included nine in-depth case studies to examine what improvement efforts principals attempted in their schools and what strategies they applied to reach their goals. 

The case study report chronicles the work Dr. Olson led as principal at Progress Village Middle Magnet School of the Arts over a period of three years.  Dr. Olson’s case study is also embedded in the current curriculum in the 2021 version of NISL’s Executive Development Program Unit 3.