This example, and the prior illustration of one district «s intensive efforts to turn around a school failing to meet AYP targets, point to a critical
issue for school district leaders.
Marzano Center support programs include tailored one -, two -, and three - day training sessions with the Marzano Teacher Evaluation
Academy for school district leaders; customized support packages for central offices; seminars on inter-rater reliability; certifications in observer accuracy; and a full range of online, high quality, self - study courses that examine all aspects of the common language of instruction within the Marzano Teacher Evaluation Model.
This complexity of both knowledge and practice has great
implications for school district leaders that seek to calibrate new, sophisticated evaluation instruments among many principals — in some cases, hundreds of principals in a single school district.
The series includes A New
Option for School District Leaders Under NCLB, which identifies the need for a new beginning at a school and describes the options of initiating a charter school or hiring an outside school manager, and Engaging Parents and the Community in Starting Fresh, which highlights strategies for bringing key stakeholders to the table.
That includes, according to Till and other critics, yawning pay gaps between rich and poor counties and
uncertainty for school district leaders now tasked with negotiating scores of contracts with essential administration, critics say.
As harrowing as those cases have been
for school district leaders, the prosecutor in the case has nothing but praise for the officials» cooperation.
For school district leaders, those are familiar tasks, and they've been codified in numerous publications.