Leadership for the Schools We Need

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Todays Objectives

• School improvement
• School boards roles yesterday and today
• Data to drive change
• ADEs role
• Superintendents role

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Early School Board Leadership

• Early days
• Find an able school master.
• Make sure he performs faithfully.
• Arbitrate parent complaints.
• Keep up the schoolhouse.
• Order enough wood for the winter.

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Todays School Board Leadership

• Establish a vision of what students should
  achieve.
• Ensure that a structuree.g. policies and
  resourcesis in place to support improvement.
• Hold the staff, yourselves, students and the
  community accountable for continuous improvement
  in achievement.
• Advocate for students in the community.

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Todays School Board Leadership

• Elected as an individual.
• Power result of collective vote of entire board.
• Policy-making body.
• Hire the superintendent.
• Establish and nurture a trusting respective
  culture.

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ADEs Role

• Require principal and staff be replaced.
• Mandate summer leadership training for staff.
• Determine use of state and federal school
  improvement funds.
• Consolidate or convert to a charter school.
• Assign a school improvement director.
• Hire an improvement specialist - Districts
  funds.

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Todays School Board Leadership

• Three Questions
• What is it they need to know and do?
• How do we know they know and can do it?
• What do we do if they dont perform?

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Data to Drive Decisions

• Focus on student achievement.
• Measure goals to improve student achievement.
• Deepen community understanding.
• Set student achievement goals with your community.

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Data to Drive Decisions

• Evaluate policies and programs.
• Identify new issues or challenges.
• Diagnose problems and revisit solutions
• Anticipate future conditions.
• Create shared accountability.
• Provide opportunities to celebrate success.
• Depersonalize decisions.

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Boards Role

• Set goals.
• Set priorities for superintendent and staff.
• Identify how you will evaluate progress.
• Evaluate progress using the data collected and
  presented by staff.
• Review, re-evaluate and revise student
  achievement goals.

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Superintendents Role

• Manage the change process
• Lead the learning process
• Develop goals with the board using data.
• Develop an action plan based on data.
• Demonstrate reasonable progress to the board.
• Revisit, review, revise.

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