Fundamental criticisms of university - based programs for the pre-service
preparation of school leaders have led to extensive revisions and evaluations of those programs over the past 15 years (e.g., Milstein et al, 1993; Murphy, 1993).
Examining pre-service
preparation of school leaders.
The College's Shelby Cosner earned UIC's Award for Excellence in Teaching for her focus on the practice and
preparation of school leaders transforming urban schools.
A Letter of Nomination including information supporting your university's selection of this individual and listing specific details about the nominee's contributions to the professional
preparation of school leaders, for which he / she is being honored (Word or.
And what does it mean for
the preparation of school leaders?
However, the researchers failed to find a single country or school system that had incorporated all of these practices into a cohesive and comprehensive approach to
the preparation of school leaders.
In fact this is a guiding principle for
the preparation of school leaders here at the University of Washington Center for Educational Leadership.
Typically, a university performs the academic
preparation of school leaders while school system performs the practical preparation.
Not exact matches
The applications are then reviewed by a panel
of state educational
leaders from various professional associations, including the
School Administrators Association
of N.Y. State; N.Y. State United Teachers; the United Federation
of Teachers; and the N.Y. State Parent Teacher Association, along with the assistant provost for educator
preparation at the State University
of New York (SUNY).
One
of the institute's first education initiatives was the Alliance to Reform Education Leadership (AREL), a nationwide network
of principal
preparation programs with a mandate, as a 2010 press release put it, «to transform the way
school districts identify, recruit, prepare, empower, and evaluate their
leaders.»
School leaders can improve mental
preparation, for example, by taking time before a meeting to sit down and think about what they really want to achieve, or by visualising the achievement
of the outcomes.
Interestingly Allison (2015) calls for a «fifth age»
of administrator
preparation which would incorporate both the learning from
school leader's actions in
schools and the academic research world, emphasising that the way forward is to learn from the past and chart a new course forward.
The AACTE is a national alliance
of educator
preparation programs dedicated to the highest quality professional development
of teachers and
school leaders in order to enhance PreK - 12 student learning.
The university initiative comes on the heels
of a Wallace report suggesting that
school district
leaders are largely dissatisfied with the quality
of principal
preparation programs and many universities believe that their programs have room for improvement.
This Education Trends report explores successful practices for arts integration, with a focus on educator and
school leader professional development, and provides an overview
of research that highlights the impact
of instructor
preparation and professional development on student outcomes.
The expansion
of charter
schools, less university - based teacher
preparation, and putting digital technology before superb teaching as a way to personalize learning for students do not characterize the policies
of international educational
leaders like Canada, Finland, or Singapore.
Education Commission
of the States has researched
school leader certification and
preparation policies in all 50 states to provide this comprehensive resource that shows how all states approach specific policies.
She is directly responsible for the development and advocacy
of NJPSA's legislative agenda which covers a broad spectrum
of educational issues including the
preparation, support and development
of school leaders,
school finance, collective bargaining / employment issues and
school reform issues.
The kind
of preparation and thinking she envisions for education
leaders is «what's taken for granted at Harvard Business
School and Harvard Kennedy
School,» which is why the Wallace Foundation originally underwrote the ExEL program to bring teams
of superintendents and state education officials together.
The University Council for Educational Administration is a consortium
of higher education institutions committed to advancing the
preparation and practice
of educational
leaders for the benefit
of schools and children.
For example, Maine recommends that districts adopt «longevity pay incentives» and create teacher
leader programs in high - poverty
schools.54 The plan also states that the Maine Department
of Education will work with teacher
preparation programs to assess the type and level
of preparation afforded to aspiring teachers wishing to teach in high - poverty
schools, isolated
schools, and high - risk
school settings with the goal
of offering more supports, including housing, loan forgiveness, and housing for teachers in these types
of schools.55
360 Edition (INSPIRE - 360)-- This instrument enables the educational leadership
preparation program to document leadership practices and
school improvement and organizational indicators in the
schools where program graduates work from the perspective
of subordinate teachers and superordinate district
leader (s).
The University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA) is a consortium
of higher education institutions committed to advancing the
preparation and practice
of educational
leaders for the benefit
of schools and children.
After nearly a year
of preparation, my team and I are ready to take on an ambitious goal in partnership with our city's educational
leaders: adding 7,000 seats to Boston's high - performing
schools by the year 2020...
In short, the discourse on
school leader preparation has moved from the language
of critique to a language
of possibility and, now, to a language
of demonstration.
UCEA's mission is to advance the
preparation and practice
of educational
leaders for the benefit
of all children and
schools.
These studies reported on
preparation programs that provided the opportunity to participants to perform as
leaders, whether in a role - play in front
of other program participants (Nesbit et al., 2001), while working with classroom teachers in an actual teacher leadership position in a
school or district (Howe & Stubbs, 2003), or with the support
of a mentor in a teacher
leader training program (Harris & Townsend, 2007).
Although our member faculty and deans come from different states and regions, we all share the same goals
of building knowledge for the field and providing quality
preparation and lifelong learning experiences for
school and
school system
leaders.
Align
preparation to the work — The knowledge and skills developed in a
preparation program should reflect the focus
of teacher
leaders» work in
schools.
Leader in Practice Edition (INSPIRE - LP)-- This instrument enables the educational leadership
preparation programs to document leadership practices and
school improvement and organizational indicators from the perspective
of program graduates who are working as
school principals.
This Rubric informs effective leadership
preparation, induction, ongoing support, coaching, and supervision
of school and district
leaders.
This award complements UCEA's core mission to advance the
preparation and practice
of educational
leaders for the benefit
of all children and
schools.
UCEA fulfills this purpose collaboratively by 1) promoting, sponsoring, and disseminating research on the essential problems
of practice, 2) improving the
preparation and professional development
of school leaders and professors, and 3) influencing policy and practice through establishing and fostering collaborative networks.
After a series
of national critiques
of school leader preparation in the first decade
of the century, we have seen increased action at the local, state and national levels to improve
school leader preparation and development.
The goal is to establish what is being done in the
preparation of teachers and educational
leaders and what deans, department chairs and other
leaders in the area
of preservice training
of teachers and
school administrators believe might be done differently to improve those programs.
Professional and policy organizations such as the University Council for Education Administration, the Council
of the Great City
Schools, and the Bush Institute's Alliance to Reform Education Leadership have all recognized Illinois for exemplary partnerships between
school districts and
school leader preparation programs.
The Illinois Story is part
of a major effort at Wallace to improve university principal
preparation programs and builds on 15 years
of Wallace - supported research and experience about what makes for effective
school leaders.
A new resource developed by the Education Commission
of the States (ECS) offers a 50 - state comparison
of school leader certification and
preparation programs, along with individual state profiles.
The
school leader as the promoter
of the success
of all students is as the center
of the work
of faculty in the
preparation programs.
Mónica Byrne - Jiménez is an Associate Professor
of Educational and Policy Leadership in the
School of Education at Hofstra University.Her research focuses on Latina / o identity and school leadership, the role of faculty diversity on doctoral student experiences, and effectiveness of a special education leader preparation pr
School of Education at Hofstra University.Her research focuses on Latina / o identity and
school leadership, the role of faculty diversity on doctoral student experiences, and effectiveness of a special education leader preparation pr
school leadership, the role
of faculty diversity on doctoral student experiences, and effectiveness
of a special education
leader preparation program.
The
school leader as the promoter
of the success
of all students is at the center
of the work
of faculty in the
preparation programs.
Margaret Terry Orr (PhD, Columbia) is a faculty member
of Bank Street College
of Education (NY) and directs its Future
School Leaders Academy, a two - year school and district leadership preparation program in partnership with 30 + suburban and small city dist
School Leaders Academy, a two - year
school and district leadership preparation program in partnership with 30 + suburban and small city dist
school and district leadership
preparation program in partnership with 30 + suburban and small city districts.
Considering the impact
of school leaders on student achievement, principal
preparation programs have a huge responsibility to best prepare individuals to lead our nation's
schools.
She has been a professor
of leadership
preparation for over 20 years, preparing
school and district
leaders, and has developed several
preparation and post-
preparation programs for aspiring
school leaders and superintendents.
If
schools are to eliminate the disparities in learning opportunities and achievement from which students
of color and students situated in poverty suffer disproportionately, then leadership
preparation programs must prepare educational
leaders who have the capacity to argue the following claims:
Although tremendous attention is paid to ranking and grading
schools, districts, and other educational entities, state policies guiding the approval
of leadership
preparation programs and the licensure
of educational
leaders have received relatively limited attention.
Schools are letting teachers take their planning,
preparation and assessment (PPA) time at home, banning work in the staff room and cutting the hours
of senior
leaders, all...
Today, nearly all states have adopted some form
of what's known as the «ISLLC standards,» which lay out a set
of competencies
school leaders need to succeed in improving instruction.6 Iowa, Illinois, Delaware and Kentucky are among the states that have used the standards to rewrite principal licensure rules, toughen accreditation for principal
preparation programs, spell out requirements for mentoring newly hired principals and evaluate
leader performance.
A distinguishing trait
of the world's best
school systems - systems that regularly outperform the
school systems in the United States - is that they «invest in high - quality
preparation, mentoring and professional development for teachers and
leaders, completely at government expense,» according to an international analysis.39 If U.S.
school districts were to heed that finding, they would, for starters, provide mentoring for all novice principals for at least a year.
Articles will address such topics as the qualities and skills today's
school leaders need; strengths and weaknesses
of current leadership
preparation programs; and how practices like internships, coaching, and teams can support new
leaders.