DISTRIBUTIVE LEADERSHIP FROM SUSSEX CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL

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DISTRIBUTIVE LEADERSHIPFROM SUSSEX CENTRAL HIGH
SCHOOL

• WELCOME
• APRIL 26, 2005
• SECONDARY SCHOOL SUMMIT
• Dr. Donna Hall, Principal

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Activating your knowledge

• Brainstorm
• Describe each organizational structure
• Conclude which structure best fits high schools
  today

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ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS

• How could schools organize teachers, time, and
  students for continuous learning and achievement?
• How could schools develop and implement teacher
  leadership that is distributed across the staff?

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Accelerating your knowledge

• Brainstorm
• How are teachers leaders?
• What are barriers to teacher leadership?
• What are ways schools can implement distributive
  leadership?

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SUSSEX CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL

• PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE

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DEMOGRAPHICS

• New School for 1500, currently 1100
• 85 instructional and support staff
• 35 Diverse Cultures
• 30 Free Reduced
• 36 Low Income
• 15 Special Education
• 7 School Choice
• Past 2 of 3 years rated Commendable

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PAST WHAT DID WE LOOK LIKE?

• Mission Statement but no data driven goals
• Teachers departmentalized by content
• Low Accountability
• Low Test Data (DSTP, SAT, ACT, etc) existed
  without follow-up analysis
• Staff Development - Sit and Get
• School direction administration driven

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PRESENT Things are changing

• Goals set yearly and within the year for student
  achievement
• Data is our life (All forms of data)
• Test scores indicate increase in student
  achievement
• Teachers still departmentalized by content
• Staff Development is focused and driven by staff
• Beginning Distributive Leadership

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FUTURE What we want to look like

• Clear and focused vision
• Initiatives consistent and pervasive throughout
  school
• Sustained student achievement, high
  accountability
• Systematic interventions when students do not
  learn
• Layers of teacher leadership
• Creative master scheduling to allow for time
• A school where the vision is clear as soon as you
  enter the front door

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ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS

• How could schools organize teachers, time, and
  students for continuous learning and achievement?
• How could schools develop and implement teacher
  leadership that is distributed across the staff?
• ULTIMATE GOAL
• CONTINUOUS SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT AND STUDENT
  ACHIEVEMENT

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THANK YOU

• DONNA HALL, PRINICPAL
• Sussex Central High School
• dhall_at_irsd.k12.de.us