Instructional LeadersWebinar 2 – Nov. 4, 2014

Dr. Traci SeilsComponent Director for

Curriculum & Instructiontseils@esc6.net936-435-8220

Agenda• Great Principals at Scale

– Strand 2• AP Courses• Calculator Policy• STAAR A

June 2014 StudyGeorge W. Bush Institute

Alliance to Reform Education Leadership

Overview

4 Strands• Alignment among goals, strategies, structures,

and resources • Culture of collective responsibility, balanced

autonomy, and continuous learning & improvement

• Effective management and support for principals • Systems and policies to effectively manage talent

at the school-level

Schedule• Webinar 1 – Strand 1 September 23 #177204• Webinar 2 – Strand 2 November 4 #177205• Webinar 3 – Strand 3 February 24 #177206• Webinar 4 – Strand 4 May 5 #177207

All webinars are 9:00 – 10:00 AM

Foundation• Reciprocal Accountability (Elmore)

o Accountability must be a reciprocal process. For every increment of performance I demand from you, I have an equal responsibility to provide you with the capacity to meet that expectation. Likewise, for every investment you make in my skill and knowledge, I have a reciprocal responsibility to demonstrate some new increment in performance. This is the principal of “reciprocity of accountability for capacity.”

time

resources

materials

training

encouragementcollaboration

follow-up

process/strategy

Reciprocal Accountability

Foundation• Distributed Leadership (Spillane)

o Collaborativeo Collectiveo Coordinated

o Putting the distributed perspective into practice means focusing on the practice of leading and managing, looking at the formal and informal organisation in tandem, attending to followers and focusing on the situations as a defining element of practice, not just a backdrop.

Strand 2: Culture of Collective Responsibility, Balanced Autonomy, & Continuous

Learning

RelationshipsCentralized Decentralized

Central office decision-making School decision-making

Central office provides tools, support, systems

School leadership finds or develops these themselves

District-wide coherence Redundancy/duplication of effort

One-size fits all School leadership individualizes for campus

Collective Responsibility

Balanced Autonomy

Continuous Improvement

Definitions

Collective Responsibility

A system that truly supports effective school leadership at scale across a district is one in which central offices and schools work together as a team in iterative processes to identify and implement strategies that meet the needs of individual schools.

Iterative ProcessDefine

Design

Deploy

Evaluate

Refine

supporting implementation

Benefits

relationships trust

networks

support

Balanced AutonomyCentral Office

Campus

ToolsProcessesSupports

ResourcesOversight

TeachingLearning

Implementation

StaffingAdjust

StrategiesCAUTION

calendar

PD

assessment

curriculum

Centralize

Continuous Improvement

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Central Office Staff

Resources/Tools

Process

Rubric

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