Unpacking The ISLLC Standards

1. Unpacking The ISLLC Standards The Key to Effective School Leadership Chapter 1

2. The School Functions As A Social System

3. The Interstate School Leader licensure consortium Standards 6 Standards 31 Functions

4. Standards Informing School Leadership

5. Standard 1 • An education leader promotes the success of every student by facilitating the development, articulation, implementation, and stewardship of a vision of learning that is shared and supported by all stakeholders.

6. Facilitating a Shared Vision As a school leader, how do you develop and facilitate the implementation of a shared vision?

7. Functions of Standard 1

8. Leadership Functions • Collaboratively develop and implement a shared vision and mission • Collect and use data to identify goals, assess organizational effectiveness, and promote organizational learning

9. Leadership Functions • Create and implement plans to achieve goals • Promote continuous and sustainable improvement • Monitor and evaluate progress and revise plans

10. Standard 2 • An education leader promotes the success of every student by advocating, nurturing, and sustaining a school culture and instructional program conducive to student learning and staff professional growth.

11. Developing and Sustaining An Effective Learning Culture As a school leader, what processes do you use to develop an effective teaching and learning environment?

12. Functions of Standard 2

13. Leadership Functions • Nurture and sustain a culture of collaboration, trust, learning, and high expectations • Create a comprehensive, rigorous, and coherent curriculum program • Create a personalized and motivating learning environment for students

14. Leadership Functions • Supervise instruction • Develop assessment and accountability systems to monitor student progress • Develop the instructional and leadership capacity of staff

15. Leadership Functions • Maximize time on quality instruction • Promote the use of the most effective appropriate technologies to support teaching and learning • Monitor and evaluate the impact of the instructional program

16. Standard 3 • An education leader promotes the success of every student by ensuring management of the organization, operation, and resources for a safe, efficient, and effective learning environment.

17. Maintaining A Productive Learning Environment As a school leader, what practices, processes, and procedures do you use to create an efficient and effective learning environment?

18. Functions of Standard 3

19. Leadership Functions • Monitor and evaluate the management and operational systems • Obtain, allocate, align, and efficiently utilize human, fiscal, and technological resources • Promote and protect the welfare and safety of students and staff

20. Leadership Functions • Develop the capacity for distributed leadership • Ensure that teacher and organizational time is focused to support quality instruction and student learning

21. Standard 4 • An education leader promotes the success of every student by collaborating with faculty and community members, responding to diverse community interests and needs, and mobilizing community resources.

22. Collaborating With A Diverse Community As a school leader, how do you support the collegial growth of yourself, teachers, and other administrators?

23. Functions of Standard 4

24. Leadership Functions • Collect and analyze data and information pertinent to the educational environment • Promote understanding, appreciation, and use of the community’s diverse cultural, social, and intellectual resources

25. Leadership Functions • Build and sustain positive relationships with families and caregivers • Build and sustain productive relationships with community partners

26. Standard 5 • An education leader promotes the success of every student by acting with integrity, fairness, and in an ethical manner.

27. Ensuring Professional Integrity and Fairness

28. Professional Integrity and Fairness • As a school leader, what processes do you use to encourage individuals in the organization to act in an ethical manner and practice the principles of fair process?

29. Functions of Standard 5

30. Leadership Functions • Ensure a system of accountability for every student’s academic and social success • Model principles of self-awareness, reflective practice, transparency, and ethical behavior • Safeguard the values of democracy, equity, and diversity

31. Leadership Functions • Consider and evaluate the potential moral and legal consequences of decision making • Promote social justice and ensure that individual student needs inform all aspects of schooling

32. Standard 6 • An education leader promotes the success of every student by understanding, responding to, and influencing the political, social, economic, legal, and cultural context.

33. Responding To The: • Political • Social • Economic • Legal • Cultural Context

34. The Major Question • As a school leader, how do you maintain an open dialogue with all stakeholders, affording yourself an opportunity to benefit from a variety of ideas, values, and cultures?

35. Functions of Standard 6

36. Leadership Functions • Advocate for children, families, and caregivers • Act to influence local, district, state, and national decisions affecting student learning • Assess, analyze, and anticipate emerging trends and initiatives in order to adapt leadership strategies

37. Six Standards and Thirty-one Functions Informing Effective School Leadership

38. Transforming Standards Into Practice • Leadership • Decision Making • Communication • Conflict Management • Change

39. References Educational Leadership Policy Standards: ISLLC, 2008