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Balanced Leadership for School Success in District 6

Learn how effective leadership and professional development can elevate schools, based on successful models from "Schools Moving Up." Implement balanced leadership strategies to drive academic improvement and cultivate learning communities.

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Balanced Leadership for School Success in District 6

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  1. Leadership MattersDistrict 6 Administrative AcademyDecember 14, 2005 From ASCD, Schools Moving Up, Summer 2005

  2. PERB Findings • 4 styles of leadership: • Powerless leader • Absent leader • Controlling leader • Balanced leader Our objective is to practice balanced leadership throughout Local District 6.

  3. “Schools Moving Up” • How do we use effective leadership and focused professional development to move our schools up?

  4. 18 Schools Studied by WestEd • Schools served high numbers of at-risk students • All had dramatic gains in test scores or raised scores and consistently kept them high • No group of students fell behind academically

  5. Common Features (The what) • High Expectations: Beyond Pobrecito • Making Data Part of the Culture • A Focused Plan • Interactive Principal Leadership • Professional Development Redefined • Standards-Based Curriculum and Instruction

  6. District 6 Focus (The what) • Balanced Leadership • Quality professional development that focuses on classroom practice and linked to adopted curriculum and programs • Developing grade level and content learning communities • Using data to inform practice and creating urgency for improvement • Internal accountability for implementation

  7. Leadership Goals for Principals and Assistant Principals (How?) • Model instructional leadership including ability to articulate and reinforce the vision and goals of core instructional programs • Hold ourselves out as learners • Focus on teaching practices • Accept the the challenges inherent in the leadership role by working collaboratively to solve problems

  8. Table Talk • Select the one feature from “Schools Moving Up”, that you are successfully implementing at your school site. • Share that successful feature at your table and explain why you feel that it is successful.

  9. School Team Reflection • Review the 6 features of “Schools Moving Up”. • With your team, identify one feature that you will begin to implement in January. • Write 3 steps to begin the implementation. • What support do you need from LD 6?

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