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1.6 Growth Plans All administrators have growth plans focused on the development of effective leadership skills that include the elements of the Standards and Rubrics for School Improvement. 
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Related Resources Tools NEW! Online Practical Guide to Designing Comprehensive Teacher Evaluation Systems This website provides resources to support the building of effective teacher evaluation systems. Publication Date: 2011 Publisher: National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality Dialogue Guide for Facilitators Dialogue Guides are models for conducting interactive discussions across stakeholders in states and districts. These packages make new use of dependable and publicly available information. Each Guide circulates a common set of source materials and suggested procedures for involving various audiences. In this manner, stakeholders (families, practitioners, professional associations, professors, policymakers, legislators) all over the country can begin interacting in new ways around implementation issues. Publication Date: May 2005 Publisher: IDEA, NASDSE, US Office of Special Education Leadership Capacity—Professional Growth Planning Guide This Professional Growth Planning Guide is designed to focus your learning on Standard 1: The district and school leadership focuses on improved student achievement. Using the rubrics as an assessment tool, you are asked to identify the specific indicator you want to focus your learning on. Your Personal Improvement Goal(s) are based on the indicator selected. This plan can be used individually or with the support of your immediate supervisor. Author: Leslie Wilcox Personal Learning Needs—Professional Growth Planning Guide This Professional Growth Planning Guide is a Reflection Tool and Learning Plan designed to allow you to reflect on your personal learning needs and then choose one or more learning goals for yourself. The steps in the guide require you to plan your learning and identify what you think will happen because of your learning. At the completion of your learning plan, you are asked to identify what actually happened as a result of your plan. This plan can be used individually or with the support of your immediate supervisor. Author: Leslie Wilcox School Goal Graphic Organizer—Professional Growth Planning Guide This Professional Growth Planning Guide is a graphic organizer designed to focus your personal learning on the needs of the school. For example, if your school is implementing a new reading program and your school goal for Improved Student Achievement is to improve the reading proficiency of your students, a personal goal might be to identify and provide needed support to develop high quality reading instruction in specific grade levels or content areas. This plan can be used individually or with the support of your immediate supervisor. Author: Leslie Wilcox School Goal—Professional Growth Planning Guide This Professional Growth Planning Guide is designed to focus your personal learning on the needs of the school. For example, if your school is implementing a new reading program and your school goal for Improved Student Achievement is to improve the reading proficiency of your students, a personal goal might be to identify and provide needed support to develop high quality reading instruction in specific grade levels or content areas. This plan can be used individually or with the support of your immediate supervisor. Author: Leslie Wilcox Articles 9 Roles of the School-based Coach This article discusses the complexity of the duties school-based coaches face due to the new expectations of public education. Author: Joellen Killion and Cynthia Harrison Publication Date: 2005 Publisher: National Staff Development Council (NSDC) NEW! A System Approach to Building a World-Class Teaching Profession: The Role of Induction This article discusses how a comprehensive teacher induction system can assist schools and districts in delivering the high-quality content of the Common Core Standards. Author: Mariana Haynes Publication Date: 2011 Publisher: Alliance for Excellent Education NEW! Preparation of Effective Teachers in Mathematics This paper applies the recommendations of the National Mathematics Advisory Panel to the practice of developing highly effective mathematics teachers. Author: Kristin L. McGraner, Amanda VanDerHeyden, and Lynn Holdheide Publication Date: 2011 Publisher: National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality NEW! Building Professional Development to Support New Student Assessment Systems This report makes makes eight recommendations to ensure a healthy professional development infrastructure in districts and schools. Author: Stephanie Hirsh Publication Date: 2011 Publisher: Learning Forward NEW! Differentiated Support This article discusses how responsive professional development allows principals to support each teacher according to his or her needs. Author: Jenny Sue Flannagan and Mike Kelly Publication Date: 2009 Publisher: Principal Leadership NEW! Seven Strategies for District Transformation This guide outlines seven key strategies for districts to improve student performance. Publication Date: 2010 Publisher: Education Resource Strategies A Practical Guide to Evaluating Teacher Effectiveness This guide defines teacher effectiveness and discusses six common methods for evaluating teacher effectiveness. Author: Olivia Little, Laura Goe, and Courtney Bell Publication Date: 2009 Publisher: National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality Classroom Walkthroughs: Learning to see the trees and the forest Pilter and Goodwin discuss how to effectively use walkthroughs to collect data and provide useful feedback to educators to improve instruction. Author: Howard Pitler with Bryan Goodwin Publication Date: Summer 2008 Publisher: Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL) Hard Questions about Practice The author believes that educators need to look closely at the organizational and instructional practices in schools that affect the learning of students and adults, in order to effectively change practices and improve student learning. Instructional practice and the improvement of instructional practice are complex and require high levels of knowledge and skills across a number of important domains. Success requires that schools have structures that develop the knowledge and skills of administrators and teachers. Author: Richard F. Elmore Publication Date: 2002, May Publisher: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) How to Develop a Coaching Eye This article discusses the skills, knowledge, and strategies needed to become a classroom coach. Author: Stephanie Feger, Kristine Woleck, and Paul Hickman Publication Date: 2004 Publisher: National Staff Development Council (NSDC) Identifying Professional Development Needs in Mathematics: A Planning Tool for Grades 3-7 This resource from the Center on Instruction identifies professional development needs specific to mathematics. It includes a series of guiding questions that help SEAs evaluate their existing programs and identify professional development activities that meet their needs. Author: Mary Jo Taylor Joseph A. Dimino Leanne Ketterlin Gellar Trish Koontz Publication Date: 2010 Publisher: Center on Instruction Impacts of Comprehensive Teacher Induction: Results from the Second Year of a Randomized Controlled Study The report compares outcomes of teachers offered intensive induction activities with full-time mentors to those of teachers with less intensive, less structured induction activities using an experimental study design. Publication Date: 2009 Publisher: Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education Leading Generation Y Teachers: Emerging Strategies for School Leaders This resource focuses on how to recruit, retain, and coach Generation Y teachers. Author: Ellen Behrstock and Matthew Clifford Publication Date: 2009 Publisher: National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality Principal Effectiveness: A New Principalship to Drive Student Achievement, Teacher Effectiveness, and School Turnarounds This report makes recommendations for school leadership policies geared toward dramatically increasing the number of successful principals. Publication Date: 2010 Publisher: New Leaders for New Schools Results We Want (to edit this resource, contact WestEd) The author argues that certain benefits of standardized tests do exist, while also advocating for the creation of local criterion- and performance-based assessments to complement large-scale tests. Author: Mike Schmoker Publication Date: 2000, February Publisher: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) Teacher Recruitment and Retention: A Review of the Recent Empirical Literature This article examines the characteristics of teachers who remain in the profession, the characteristics of schools and districts that successfully recruit and retain teachers, and the types of policies that show success in recruiting and retaining teachers. Author: Glenn A. Daley, Cassandra M. Guarino, and Lucrecia Santibańez Publication Date: 2006 Publisher: Review of Educational Research The Forgotten Middle: Ensuring that All Students are on Target for College and Career Readiness before High School This article discusses the importance of the middle grades in ensuring students are prepared for college. Publication Date: 2008 Publisher: ACT Time: It's Made, Not Found This article discusses the importance of making time for staff development and describes several ways to find time. It includes a strategy for creating a 15-hour block of time for staff training and/or planning. Author: Stephen Barkley Publication Date: Fall 1999 Publisher: National Staff Development Council (NSDC) Useful Links Arizona Teacher Induction Programs/Guidelines This link provides information on the quality beginning teacher induction programs offered by Arizona universities. Publisher: Arizona Department of Education ©2005 WestEd. All rights reserved. |
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