National Institute for School Leadership, Inc. (NISL) | National Center on Education and the Economy (NCEE)
Activities
Using case studies, action projects, face-to-face instruction, simulations, case studies, professional reading, and computer-assisted instruction, the NISL curriculum focuses on instructional leadership within a standards-based context. The program assists principals in understanding how to create and enrich an instructional program designed to raise achievement for all students. Through this highly interactive program, principals learn to align their curriculum frameworks, instructional materials, and teaching strategies, as well as to foster an ethical culture. School leaders work through strategies for developing distributed leadership teams; in turn, those teams enable principals to become deeply involved in instruction. Within the program’s fourteen units, two institutes, and two simulations, NISL uses little direct instruction in its delivery, preferring interactive methods such as Socratic questioning, group discussion, role playing, and case studies to inculcate a thorough understanding of the leadership characteristics and behaviors needed in today’s schools.
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