LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
School leaders shape the agenda and build the capacity of their schools for long-term success. To do so, they must be skillful in managing a myriad of tasks and responsibilities, ranging from administrative to supervisory to instructional. CEI-PEA works with principals, assistant principals and school leadership teams to develop the skills and assets necessary to meet the challenge. Key areas of capacity for school leadership include the following:
- Is able to articulate clearly beliefs about educational practices.
- Communicates high expectations for student academic performance to staff.
- Is visible throughout the school on a regular basis.
- Frequently holds both formal and informal discussions concerning student achievement and the instructional program.
- Coordinates curriculum and ensures there is congruence between district and school curriculum objectives, materials, assessment techniques and classroom instruction.
- Provides differentiated staff development, which meets identified program, teaching, or school climate needs and helps staff to meet learning objectives.
- Helps teachers work together to ensure articulation at each grade level.
- Regularly observes teachers and provides post-observation feedback and follow-up assistance.
- Ensures that the content and procedures of faculty meetings reflect what is valued in the school.
- Obtains active parental involvement in school activities.
- Ensures that the procedures, policies and practices throughout the school cohere.
- Establishes a safe and orderly school environment with a clear discipline code.
- Provides support and back-up for enforcement of discipline.
Leadership Development Services
CEI-PEA helps school leaders gain these skills through:
- Workshops that cover topics and needs common to the school leaders such as creating effective operating procedures, using protocols to generate facilitative leadership, and using data to assess student and classroom performance on an ongoing basis.
- On-site leadership development to meet the specific needs of individual principals and assistant principals.
- Training principals and assistant principals on how to use data to assess their performance.
- Assistant principal leadership program that fosters the development of exemplary assistant principals to become principals.
- Peer mentoring between principals and assistant principals from CEI-PEA Network Schools to foster the sharing of best practices.
- Study groups for principals and assistant principals to address topics of common interest and concern.
More Information
For more information about CEI-PEA’s leadership development services, contact CEI-PEA Senior Fellow Bill Colavito.