PSN provides school leaders the
opportunity for collaboration across district lines to explore innovative and
effective practices, solve problems, deal with common issues, and share
successes. PSN will assist principals
in strengthening leadership skills, provide opportunities to achieve and
document mastery of standards and key indicators, and provide follow up support
through the established network.
PSN focuses on the Alabama
Standards for Professional Development for Instructional Leaders covering topics
relating to Standard 1: Planning for Continuous Improvement, and Standard 2:Teaching and Learning.
Content
threads include:
·How to bring everyone’s voice to the table
·Issues in educational leadership of a national scope
·Using professional literature containing a high degree
of relevancy
·Strategies for looking at and using data
·Problem solving-
a critical friends protocol
·Leading a faculty through conflict and change
·Building collaboration
·“Strategy Shuffle”: a process to listen, reflect, and
share proposed solutions
·Engaging the school community in developing and
maintaining a shared vision
·Creating and articulating a vision of high
expectations
·Addressing specific issued facing administrators in Alabama: such as ARI and
AMSTI
·Establishing teaching and learning as the focal point
for the school
PSN CORRELATION WITH THE ALABAMA STANDARDS FOR
INSTRUCTIONAL LEADERS:
Standard 1:
Planning for Continuous Improvement
Standard 1:
Key Indicators
1. Knowledge to lead the articulation, development,
and implementation of a shared vision and strategic plan for the school that
places student and faculty learning at the center
2. Ability to lead and motivate staff, students, and
families to achieve the school’s vision
4. Knowledge to allocate and guard instruction time
for the achievement of goals
6. Ability to interact with the community concerning
the school’s vision, mission, and priorities
7. Ability to work with staff and others to establish
and accomplish goals
8. Ability to relate vision, mission, and goals to the
instructional needs of students
9. Ability to use goals to manage activities
10. Ability to use a variety of problem-solving
techniques and decision-making skills to resolve problems
Standard 2:
Teaching and Learning
Standard 2:
Key Indicators
1. Knowledge to plan for the achievement of annual
learning gains, school improvement goals, and other targets related to the
shared vision
3. Ability to engage staff in ongoing study and
implementation of research-based practices
4. Ability to use the latest research, applied theory,
and best practices to make curricular and instructional decisions
5. Ability to communicate high expectations and
standards for the academic and social development of students
6. Ability to ensure that content and instruction are
aligned with high standards resulting in improved student achievement
7. Ability to coach staff and teachers on the
evaluation of student performance
10. Knowledge to collaborate with the community,
staff, district, state, and university personnel to develop the instructional
program
11. Knowledge to align curriculum, instructional
practices, and assessments to district, state, and national standards
12. Ability to focus upon student learning as a
driving force for curriculum, instruction, and instructional decision-making
Program Outcome Measures:
1)Which standards and key indicators of
the Alabama Administrator Professional Development Standards for Instructional
Leaders were documented as completed/mastered?
2)Did participants experience support
and personal growth in specific areas relating to school leadership?
3)Can this program be successfully
replicated in other school systems in Alabama?
PSN Session 2 Sept 24 2009 agenda.pdf