What's New
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
HAVING YOUR SAY
The National Policy Board for Educational Administration (NPBEA), a ten-member group of organizations with an interest in improving educational leadership policy and practice, is inviting participation in a review of the revised draft of the Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium (ISLLC) Standards (Educational Leadership Policy Standards: ISLLC 2008). These draft national policy standards will form the foundation for future work to create program standards for accrediting educational leadership programs at colleges and universities; and to craft practice standards at the state and district levels.
The draft standards are intended to identify broad policy functions of the educational leadership position. There are similarities and differences between the old and the new ISLLC standards. The framework of the six “broad standards” has been maintained, but the language has been modified. “Functions” defining each standard and research citations have been included, but “indicators” have been deleted. View the draft ISLLC standards here.
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Thursday, April 26, 2007
LEADERSHIP LESSONS WORTH LEARNING
Last week, The Stanford Educational Leadership Institute’s report commissioned by The Wallace Foundation, “Preparing School Leaders for a Changing World – Lessons from Exemplary Leadership Development Programs,” confirmed that it is possible to create systematic learning opportunities for school leaders. An examination of eight pre- and in-service principal development programs in a variety of contexts identified common elements of highly effective school principal training and development programs, and other important findings. Read the executive summary here.
Based on a review and analysis of policies and practices to strengthen leadership and promote change and improvement in the public schools in Boston, MA; Memphis, TN; and National City, CA, the Education Commission of the States developed the Education Leadership Policy Toolkit. This recently launched online resource enables state policymakers, school district officials, principals, teachers and other stakeholders to tap lessons learned in eight critical policy and practice areas – from decision making processes to resource allocation to instruction, professional development and accountability. The Toolkit includes: Models, Audio Clips and Links, as well as Profiles of the three school districts. You can access the Toolkit here.
Friday, March 30, 2007
LEADERS SPREADING THE WORD
Teacher Leaders' Stories - Educational Leadership, ASCD’s award-winning publication, wants your description of a teacher leadership experience. Tell EL readers (in 300–500 words) about a time when you saw good teacher leadership in action. Describe how a teacher—or a group—acted as a leader in a school, or describe a time when you showed leadership. What conditions made it possible for this leadership to emerge? What was the result?
E-mail your story here by Friday, May 4, 2007, with "Leadership Description" in the subject line. Please include complete contact information (name, address, phone number, school, position, and e-mail address) in the message. Questions? Contact Deborah Perkins-Gough, Senior Editor, at 703-575-5694 or send her an e-mail here. ASCD will publish the best of the stories in the September 2007 issue on "Teachers as Leaders."
LeaderTalk – Scott C. McLeod, founder of CASTLE (the Center for the Advanced Study of Technology Leadership in Education), University of Minnesota, recently launched the first blog “by school leaders for school leaders.” The blog, LeaderTalk, hopes to provide insights and resources beneficial to P-12 administrators and educational leadership preparation programs. McLeod has helped many principals and other administrators create blogs – strategies to help school leaders inform their stakeholders, gather input, and build a shared sense of community. As of the March 14, 2007 EdWeek story, McLeod was still looking for leaders – building or central office level – who wanted/needed help creating a blog. Want to write for LeaderTalk? Want/need help creating a blog? Contact LeaderTalk here.