Does your district have a career ladder that enables the best teachers to take
leadership roles in school improvement and teacher development?
Not exact matches
This includes rebalancing incentives to encourage leaders to work
in challenging
schools, along with the introduction of an»
improvement period» where
schools will not be inspected by Ofsted, which aims to take the immediate pressure off of new leaders and give them the time to make
improvements after taking over a
leadership role.
Much has changed
in recent times and the
role and influence of
school leadership has increased as our
schools and
school leaders have started to take up the responsibility for
school improvement not just
in their own
schools, but right across the system.
I am very conscious that understandings of
leadership work undertaken by teachers typically reinforce those with formal positional
roles at the expense of other forms of
leadership which I believe are equally important for the
improvement of student learning and achievement
in schools.
One can argue fairly that it may not make sense to keep Brown — best - known nationally for banning Christmas symbols
in the
school ----
in his
role; after all, the trajectory of Walsh's performance under his
leadership has been a bit of a see - saw, with
improvement stalled
in the past couple of years.
The categories included program characteristics (explicitly articulated objectives and
role expectations, provision for continuous student progress, flexibility
in matching materials and instruction to student needs, and stability of programs over several years),
leadership behaviors (establishing reading
improvement as a
school priority, being knowledgeable about reading instruction, actively facilitating instructional decisions, establishing and maintaining monitoring of student progress, and evaluating teachers), and psychological conditions (high expectations for students, calm and businesslike
school climate, staff commitment to the reading program, staff cooperation, parental involvement, and attribution of reading failure to program defects).
At the least, districts have a responsibility to provide training and support to
school staff members to assume new
leadership roles.74 Some districts go a step further by allowing some transferring principals to bring
in their own
leadership teams to smooth the transition and speed
school improvement.
In this role, he will provide oversight of academics, school improvement, operations and leadership development for all schools managed by CSUSA in North and South Carolin
In this
role, he will provide oversight of academics,
school improvement, operations and
leadership development for all
schools managed by CSUSA
in North and South Carolin
in North and South Carolina.
In her role, she is responsible for identifying, developing, and implementing school leadership strategies designed to elevate and prioritize the roles of school leaders in advancing continuous improvement in all school
In her
role, she is responsible for identifying, developing, and implementing
school leadership strategies designed to elevate and prioritize the
roles of
school leaders
in advancing continuous improvement in all school
in advancing continuous
improvement in all school
in all
schools.
C. Assumes a
leadership role in the study and implementation of instructional
improvement and
school reform initiatives.
«Teacher
leadership,» the author notes, «is defined as specific
roles and responsibilities that recognize the talents of the most effective teachers and deploy them
in the service of student learning, adult learning and collaboration, and
school and system
improvement.»
«He has experience of senior
leadership role in a primary
school and as a
school governance consultant and trainer for the local authority, delivering a range of training programmes on
school performance and
school improvement themes.
Teacher
leadership can mean a lot of things, but one helpful description comes from The Aspen Institute, which defines it as «specific
roles and responsibilities that recognize the talents of the most effective teachers and deploy them
in service of student learning, adult learning and collaboration, and
school system
improvement.»
«States and the federal government have a
role in changing the way districts support effective
leadership in every
school;» said Jean Desravines, CEO of New Leaders, Inc. «To scale and sustain
school improvement, state and federal leaders must recognize the important
role that districts play and promote and model large shifts
in organizational culture and operations.»
In this
role, he provided
leadership for six program areas:
school support and rural education, impact aid, Indian education, migrant education, academic
improvement, and safe and healthy students.
The Curriculum and Instruction program addresses teacher empowerment and
leadership in the expanded
roles and responsibilities of teachers
in schools, including data - driven assessment for
school improvement, professional learning communities, applying research to practice, improving instruction and student learning outcomes, and collaboration with families and communities.