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Leading Student Achievement: Our Principal Purpose Taking the Project to the Next Level

Learn how to enhance student learning outcomes by focusing on effective PLC processes, powerful school conditions, and instructional leadership practices. Discover concrete actions to improve key school conditions and identify areas that require additional support.

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Leading Student Achievement: Our Principal Purpose Taking the Project to the Next Level

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  1. Leading Student Achievement: Our Principal PurposeTaking the Project to the Next Level Kenneth Leithwood

  2. 3 Objectives to Guide LSA InitiativesOver the Next Year • Focus the content of the conversations within district principal learning teams and school PLCs on conditions which robust evidence tells us have the most powerful direct effects on student learning; • Deepen participants’ understandings of effective PLC processes and refine their skills in managing such processes in their own PLCs; and, • Significantly extend principal and teacher capacities for effective literacy and numeracy instruction.

  3. Existing Priorities that WarrantOngoing Attention in the LSA Project • Professional learning communities • Focused instruction

  4. New Priorities for the LSA Project School conditions with powerful direct effects on student learning: • Academic press • Disciplinary climate • Collective teacher efficacy • Teacher trust in colleagues, students and parents • Time for learning

  5. Academic Press • Concept • Effects on students • Leadership practices

  6. School Disciplinary Climate • Concept • Effects on students • Leadership practices

  7. Collective Teacher Efficacy (CTE) • Concept • Effects on students • Leadership practices

  8. Teacher Trust in Colleagues, Parents and Students • Concept • Effects on students • Leadership practices

  9. Time for Learning • Concept • Effects on students • Leadership practices

  10. A Synthesis of Instructional Leadership Practices • Setting directions • Developing people • Redesigning the organization • Managing the instructional program

  11. Issues • Of the three objectives for this year, which will demand the greatest effort by you and your colleagues? • What concrete actions might you and your colleagues take to improve the five key school conditions in your schools? • In what areas (objectives, conditions) will you and your colleagues need the most support?

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