Professional Education & Further Development

An education leader promotes the success of every student by facilitating the development, articulation, implementation, and stewardship of a vision of learning that is shared and supported by all stakeholders.

An education leader promotes the success of every student by advocating, nurturing, and sustaining a school culture and instructional program conducive to student learning and staff professional growth.

An education leader promotes the success of every student by ensuring management of the organization, operation, and resources for a safe, efficient, and effective learning environment.

An education leader promotes the success of every student by collaborating with faculty and community members, responding to diverse community interests and needs, and mobilizing community resources.

An education leader promotes the success of every student by acting with integrity, fairness, and in an ethical manner.

An education leader promotes the success of every student by understanding, responding to, and influencing the political, social, economic, legal, and cultural context.

Collaboratively develop and implement a shared vision and mission

Collect and use data to identify goals, assess organizational effectiveness, and promote organizational learning

Create and implement plans to achieve goals

Promote continuous and sustainable improvement

Monitor and evaluate progress and revise plans

Nurture and sustain a culture of collaboration, trust, learning, and high expectations

Create a comprehensive, rigorous, and coherent curricular program

Create a personalized and motivating learning environment for students

Supervise instruction

Develop assessment and accountability systems to monitor student progress

Develop the instructional and leadership capacity of staff

Maximize time spent on quality instruction

Promote the use of the most effective and appropriate technologies to support teaching and learning

Monitor and evaluate the impact of the instructional program

Monitor and evaluate the management and operational systems

Obtain, allocate, align, and efficiently utilize human, fiscal, and technological resources

Promote and protect the welfare and safety of students and staff

Develop the capacity for distributed leadership

Ensure teacher and organizational time is focused to support quality instruction and student learning

Collect and analyze data and information pertinent to the educational environment

Promote understanding, appreciation, and use of the community's diverse cultural, social, and intellectual resources

Build and sustain positive relationships with families and caregivers

Build and sustain productive relationships with community partners

Ensure a system of accountability for every student's academic and social success

Model principles of self-awareness, reflective practice, transparency, and ethical behavior

Safeguard the values of democracy, equity, and diversity

Consider and evaluate the potential moral and legal consequences of decision-making

Promote social justice and ensure that individual student needs inform all aspects of schooling

Advocate for children, families, and caregivers

Act to influence local, district, state, and national decisions affecting student learning

Assess, analyze, and anticipate emerging trends and initiatives in order to adapt leadership strategies