Creating the Conditions: Instructional Leadership #Leadership20. Launches Free Online Needs Assessment and School Improvement Tool. Alexandria, VA (08/16/2012)—ASCD, the global leader in developing and delivering innovative programs, products, and services that empower educators to support the success of each learner, has unveiled the free, online ASCD School Improvement Tool, which is based on a whole child approach to education.
Designed for use in schools and school systems around the world, and ideal for schools developing and refining strategic plans, the online tool offers educators a comprehensive needs assessment as they embark on the new school year. Additionally, it connects administrators and teacher leaders with targeted professional development resources—books, online courses, and action tools—that can help them make the most significant schoolwide improvements and ensure all learners are healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged. Found online at this tool launches a 15-minute survey that evaluates a school's strengths and weaknesses in areas of Contact Information.
Principals as Instructional Leaders. At some level, principals always have been instructional leaders—but never before has their role been more prominent. First, the accountability movement—No Child Left Behind in particular—thrust principals into the spotlight on academic achievement. Then budget cuts peeled away capacity at both the district and school levels, thinning the ranks of assistant superintendents, curriculum specialists and assistant principals, who shouldered some or most of the load. For Beverly Jarrett, principal at Far West High School in the Oakland (Calif.)
Unified School District, that has meant an upward creep from 10 hours per day, five days a week when she started five years ago, to 12 to 14 hours per day and one Saturday a month. “You’re never in this place where you can relax. But now, he adds, if a school doesn’t make adequate yearly progress under NCLB, the principal is held responsible. “Traditionally, principals were really not instructional leaders,” she says. Training Helps Shift Managing Time.
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