tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-135003422009-07-16T11:47:13.421-04:00LeaderShipShape -- which combines <i>leadership</i> and <i>shipshape</i> to acknowledge that leadership comes in a variety of forms -- is a blog focused on professional development for school leaders. LeaderShipShape’s logo features a ship's blueprint, which is evocative of our mission to provide school and district leaders with leadership-development tools -- knowledge in the field, research, additional resources, principles, and programmatic descriptions.e-Leadnoreply@blogger.comBlogger67125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13500342.post-51815401548650279272008-09-11T14:13:00.006-04:002008-09-11T15:50:24.906-04:00

Leadership - High Schools: The Institute for Educational Leadership's (IEL) latest report — "Teacher Leadership in High Schools: How Principals Encourage It—How Teachers Practice It" — was supported by the MetLife Foundation. It shines a spotlight on teacher leadership in high schools, but the primary focus is on the crucial role that principals play in nurturing and support teacher leadership.

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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

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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

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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

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A paper from The Wallace Foundation, Wallace Perspective, “Leadership For Learning: Making The Connections Among State, District and School Policies and Practices,” draws on what the Foundation has learned about leadership for student learning. It suggests a working hypothesis (a.k.a. a big idea) called a “cohesive leadership system” (CLS). The paper is intended to prompt discussions that might

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Does your organization currently train aspiring principals to effectively lead urban schools? Are you planning to start such a program in the near future? Could you use funding to expand or to start your program? The Broad Foundation plans to increase its investments in training programs that develop strong, high-quality principals in urban schools. Mounting evidence shows that strong, trained

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Your e-Lead colleagues are sending you 3 last minute gifts:Map of the Future: The KnowledgeWorks Foundation commissioned the Institute for the Future to create a map to examine the forces affecting education and our economy. According to the map, increasing access to a burgeoning Internet over the next decade holds the promise of a watershed democratization of learning. Yet, at the same time,

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Today, more and more principals “get it.” That is, they know that in order to help young people succeed they need the community — to help them engage families, to share resources, and to meet standards. However, knowing you need to do something is not the same thing as knowing how to do it. Never fear, help is at hand. The Coalition for Community Schools, based at IEL,worked with principals in

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To lead the way to increased student learning, leaders must lead with both their head and their heart. This is an insight gleaned from the experience and practice of “Breakthrough” high school principals. Principals are considered a “Breakthrough principal” if they (1) lead a high school that serves large numbers of students who are potentially at risk of failure, and (2) can document that at

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Help in changing principal preparation programs is at hand. A new report from the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB),"Schools Can't Wait: Accelerating the Redesign of University Principal Preparation Programs," reaches conclusions calling for a different approach to preparing principals and provides tools and action recommendations to help states get the job done. Read the report here.

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State, university and school leaders in Kentucky are working together to redesign principal preparation programs. The legislature created a task force that will spend one year studying how to change preparation programs to ensure a focus on the specific skills needed to bolster student achievement and to provide internship opportunities in real schools. The task force will issue a report in the

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Earlier this month the Cincinnati Enquirer took an in-depth look at the importance of principal leadership with a series of excellent articles, blog posts and op-eds. Here's a mostly complete listing:Send help to stressed principalsPrincipal key to better schoolsPrincipal pressureThe importance of the principalPrincipal for a dayRoberts Paideia's principal is worth cloningConsistency is the mark

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The First Ring Leadership Academy, a lengthy description of which is featured here at the e-Lead website, will be hosting (in partnership with the Institute for Educational Leadership, e-Lead's parent organization) the second annual National Innovation Forum on Best Practices in School Leadership. The forum will take place in Cleveland, Ohio from July 25-27, 2006.In partnership with the Institute

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Khowhemun Elementary School in British Columbia, Canada was struggling in 2002 when new principal Charlie Coleman stepped in. Within four years, he'd managed to turn the school around, an accomplishment that earned him ASCD's 2005 Outstanding Young Educator award. How'd he do it? Coleman's success at Khowhemun was due in part to retooling strategies to meet the needs of more students, building on

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The current issue of Phi Delta Kappan is devoted to the theme of Educating Leaders for Tomorrow's Schools. The March 2006 issue contains articles on the subject by Terry Orr, Ron Heifetz and others.Though only some of the content is available online without a subscription, Prof. Jerome Murphy's piece, "Elephants or Dinosaurs? A Call to Action for Ed Schools," is online here.

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Florida is launching a first-in-the-nation merit-pay plan:A new pay-for-performance program for Florida's teachers will tie raises and bonuses directly to pupils' standardized-test scores beginning next year, marking the first time a state has so closely linked the wages of individual school personnel to their students' exam results. At least one principal there favors the new policy:"The FCAT

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A school head in Australia is under fire for remarks alleged to have been made to students. Parents are outraged, and more than five-dozen students at the Condell Park High School have staged a sit-in, questioning the principal's ethics and behavior.The students claim they were being deliberately "picked on" by [principal Susie] Mobayed and her deputies Belinda Kelly and Ralph Moore.They also

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Yesterday's Washington Post Metro pages boast an interesting feature article on school leaders. The paper asked principals of failing area schools just what had led them to miss AYP.The article contains responses from 11 DC-area principals. No two school leaders share the same story, though many seem to share a distinct distaste for NCLB. More here.

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Merit pay for teachers? One Arkansas district considers it, while a news report cites Denver's merit-pay scheme as a model:In Denver, for example, teachers earn an extra $999 if they teach at a school with a high percentage of low-income, special-needs or ESL students, or if they’re certified in a hard-to-staff area like middle school math or special education. They get tuition reimbursement for

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NASSP's new report, Breaking Ranks in the Middle, is now out. Here's an excerpt:The sign of an exemplary school leader is the awareness -- despite the school’s successes -- that there is much more to accomplish. In the experience of principals undertaking Breaking Ranks in the Middle recommendations, it is not possible to declare the work of school improvement completed, because breaking ranks is

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The Herald of Glasgow, Scotland has a very interesting piece on school leadership in Great Britain, where principals are known as "head teachers".Tim McKay, who for the past 18 months has been rector of Alford Academy in Aberdeenshire, took the decision that he would aim to become a head teacher after only eight or nine years as a teacher and deliberately sought out colleagues who were models of

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Occasionally we point out leadership-development happenings in other countries. Today we note news from the island of Nevis.Junior Minister of Education in the Nevis Island Administration (NIA) Livingston Herbert stressed the importance of leadership and the need for the island’s top educators to lead from the front, engage the community now more than ever and to take ownership of their schools..

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We're excited to announce that va-Lead, our great new partnership with the Commonwealth of Virginia, is now live (and fully functional) here at the e-Lead website. va-Lead is a joint venture with the Virginia State Action for Education Leadership Project (SAELP), which is funded by The Wallace Foundation and housed at Virginia Commonwealth University. va-Lead includes descriptions of more than

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Every now and then we like to focus on leadership-development programs taking place outside the U.S. Today we note one in the United Arab Emirates:GEMS (Global Education Management Systems), a leading education provider in the region, yesterday commenced a 13-month training programme for senior leaders in all GEMS schools who aim to become heads of schools.The programme complements the UK’s NPQH

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Recently The Merrow Report on PBS's The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer -- a show that serves up "continuing coverage of the No Child Left Behind Act" -- aired a two-part series on Virginia's Turnaround Specialist program for school leaders.You can now buy a DVD/VHS of these or watch Part I and Part II for free online.

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