We can not even begin to work
with principal supervisors regarding how to support and develop principals until they clarify the most important practices for principals (Fink & Silverman, 2014).
With principal supervisors working smarter, your principals will be better able to focus on the task at hand: improving student achievement.
Our staff can also work side - by - side
with principal supervisors and other central office staff to build their instructional capacity, including how to design relevant professional development for school leaders and how to effectively facilitate adult learning.
In our wide array of work
with principal supervisors, I have seen this many times.
Our work
with principal supervisors is grounded in the Model Principal Supervisor Professional Standards released by the Council of Chief State School Officers.
Not exact matches
«We've come up
with a nice Grab - n - Go cart roll - out guide for our
principals, our nutrition service managers, and our other
supervisors to follow.»
I probably would check
with my immediate
supervisor first... which actually brings up another interesting aspect of working in the food service department... as the head cook in an individual building, I answer mostly to the food service director, but also answer to the building
principal as well.
However, if this happens in circumstances that your
principal can control, and if you have a positive relationship
with your
supervisor, initiate a professional conversation,
with real data, about how often this happens and the impact it creates.
However, the strengths - based approach allows
supervisors,
principals, and others tasked
with training new teachers to approach the endeavor from focusing on what works, and use that as a bridge for what's not working so well.
Through a partnership
with the University of Colorado Boulder and Northwestern University, this project studies how educational leaders — including school district
supervisors and
principals — use research when making decisions and what can be done to make research findings more useful and relevant for those leaders.
Principal supervisors join
with their teams of
principals to participate in a unique, yearlong opportunity to learn from expert
supervisors and receive targeted feedback on their work managing
principals across networks of schools in this program.
Most recently, she spearheaded the development of the New Jersey Leadership Academy
with the NJASA, in which cohorts of superintendents, assistant superintendents,
principals, assistant
principals,
supervisors, and directors collaborate for a yearlong experience of quality, sustained professional learning.
As national leadership development strategist for NYCLA, Gutierrez works to build leadership capacity
with current and aspiring
principal supervisors in 12 states across the U.S.. Also a national leadership development strategist, Polo - McKenna splits her time between coaching school leaders and leadership teams nationally and working on the federal i3 grant - funded Teaming Model project, which pairs aspiring
principals and assistant
principals and places them as teams in struggling New York schools.
District leaders may communicate this through printed or electronic messages or
with principals and
principal supervisors in their meetings.
By working
with central office teams that include finance, human resources, academics, professional development,
principals, and
principal supervisors, the Bush Institute will help districts make system level changes.
Implement a system of multiple observations by trained
supervisors to provide
principals with meaningful feedback.
In this 90 - minute, data - driven event, the school
principal, assistant
principals and instructional
supervisors review the school's data
with us and discuss how it relates to their School Improvement Plan.
Final tailoring of actionable goals to meet the needs of specific school contexts will be completed by each current or aspiring school leader in consultation
with his / her building
principal or direct
supervisor.
Everything ultimately starts at the top
with school leadership which includes the superintendent, assistant superintendents,
principals, assistant
principals, and directors /
supervisors.
Shifting the focus of the
principal supervisor job from overseeing compliance
with regulations to helping
principals succeed as «instructional leaders.»
ASCD (formerly the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development) is an educational leadership organization
with 160,000 members in 148 countries, including professional educators from all levels and subject areas ---- superintendents,
supervisors,
principals, teachers, professors of education, and school board members.
Linda explains why
principals and administrators should provide new teachers
with mentors who are not also their
supervisors.
One academy participant summed up her most important take - away from the academy so far: «The joint work of
supervisors and
principals with a focused through - line to students is the key outcome for this work,» she said.
The problem
with this is that
principal supervisors don't have the time to manage all schools in their portfolio, and the takeover strategy fails to build capacity of the actual
principal leading the school.
For most
principal supervisors this is truly new work,
with a priority focus on building
principals» expertise as instructional leaders through one - to - one coaching and working from problems of practice and problems of student learning.
Principal supervisors working collaboratively
with principals must target specific changes in
principals» practice and develop and implement plans to help
principals grow in their practice.
Even though
principal supervisors are often designated as central office staff, their work
with principals must begin by understanding the problems of student learning that schools are addressing.
Principal supervisors must work collaboratively
with areas such as academics, human resources, assessment, professional development and others to help ensure alignment and coherence in the delivery of central office services and support to schools.
One main focus will be on building the skills needed by
principal supervisors to develop instructional leadership expertise in the
principals with whom they work.
Principal should be asking teachers about SECD lesson activities in the course of their supervision, checking in
with bus drivers and playground
supervisors on a regular basis to see how the process is working for them (people rarely ask these folks their opinions — and they are often very keenly aware of what is and is not working)
The
principal,
with input from his
principal supervisor, decided to work
with the K - 2 ELL students and teacher to prepare them better for what they would experience in fifth grade.
With his Common Core Toolkit for
Principals post series, Pennsylvania curriculum
supervisor Gerald Aungst offers a monthly digest of the Common Core implementation work happening in his district.
In one district a
principal supervisor told me that she now has clarity on how to work
with principals to help them implement actions to improve teaching practice and student learning.
It is essential that
Principals work
with their Superintendent and / or direct
supervisor to revisit expectations and confirm protocols for addressing any and all threats, acts of violence, and allegations of abuse and neglect.
Shelby's ILDs met monthly
with CEL staff to work through the Center's
principal supervisor curriculum and related tools.
To help
principals with the complex task of instructional leadership, we have developed a instructional leadership inquiry cycle tool that helps
principal supervisors and
principals to collaboratively engage in a continuous process of instructional improvement and analysis.
After presenting this to the
principal supervisor or colleagues, the team can decide whether or not to continue
with the current cycle or begin anew.
Using this evidence can be the foundation for
principal supervisors» work
with individual
principals and groups of
principals.
Case in point: We are currently partnering
with the Broward County Public Schools in Florida in training six
principal supervisor interns who will be ready to fill vacancies and / or help reduce the future span of control of
principal supervisors.
In practice, reducing the span of control often creates its own problem: hiring enough highly qualified
principal supervisors with a proven ability — or at least clear potential — to help
principals improve their practice.
I have shared some of the challenges we encounter most often when working
with central office leaders trying to implement a
principal supervisor role.
Speaking on a panel about
principal evaluations organized by the teacher group Educators 4 Excellence this week, Marshall said the city has a structural problem: There are too few
supervisors with real authority.
At CEL, we argue that building capacity has to be front and center when
principal supervisors work
with principals.
A number of school systems are complementing — not minimizing — the
principal supervisor role
with adult learning best practices that include
principals self - assessing to determine their own learning needs, engaging in cycles of inquiry, and working in professional learning communities
with their peers.
In partnership
with the University of Washington's Center for Educational Leadership, AASA has launched the first national
principal supervisor endorsement program.
In a number of districts,
principal supervisors now have blocks of days when they can be in the field
with principals.
The grants are designed to encourage school districts to rearrange responsibilities so that others in the central office assume some of the compliance duties and
supervisors have more time to spend
with fewer
principals.
The grants will allow school districts to restructure workloads so that
supervisors have fewer
principals to manage, more time to spend in schools and more ability to focus on mentoring and solving problems
with their
principals, said Jody Spiro, director of education leadership at Wallace.
Now entering its seventh year as an independent institution, Relay starts the school year
with nearly 3,000 current and aspiring teachers and more than 430
principals and
principal supervisors.
Practice learning walks that enable
principal supervisors to engage in conversations about teaching and learning
with principals.