Building Capacity in District
and Campus Leaders
Goals
• Review what is meant by building leadership
capacity
• Define barriers to developing leadership
capacity and share solutions to those barriers
• Make connections to other tools and
resources that are available on leadership
capacity
• Practice using a new technology tool for
facilitating meetings
CSF
Use of Data
to Drive
Instruction
• Knowledge of current
accountability systems
• Knowledge/ability to conduct a
Campus Needs Assessment
• Knowledge/ability to analyze
student performance data
Leadership
Effectiveness
• Knowledge of best practices in
leadership development
• Ability to assess leadership
skills/capacity in order to
support/develop leaders
• Ability to assist leaders in systems
of support, operational flexibility,
resource flexibility and utilization
Milestones
School
Climate
• Ability to assess mission, vision
and values
• Knowledge of ways to establish
and sustain a safe and orderly
environment
Active Engagement through Technology
We may not be digital
natives but we will be
digital role models …
TodaysMeet.com
http://todaysmeet.com/PSPandLeadership
Ponder – Discuss - Post
Why is building
leadership capacity
important in the
schools and
districts in which
we work?
“Leadership capacity building
can be defined as broad-based,
skillful participation in the
work of leadership.”
-Linda Lambert
4 A’s Protocol
• What Assumptions does
the author of the text
hold?
• What do you Agree
with in the text?
• What do you want to
Argue with in the text?
• What parts of the text
do you want to Aspire
to?
Six Critical Factors
1. The school communities core values must
focus its priorities.
2. As teacher leadership grows, principals must
let go of some authority and responsibility
3. Educators must define themselves as learners,
teachers and leaders
Six Critical Factors
4. We must invest in each other’s learning to create
reciprocity.
5. The first tenet of leadership capacity is “broad
based participation.”
6. Districts must negotiate the political landscape to
provide professional time and development, a
conceptual framework for improvement, and
tailored succession practices (fitting the principal to
the school).
High
Leadership
Capacity
Medium
Leadership
Capacity
Low
Leadership
Capacity
Barriers
Solutions
Effective Traits
of
Successful
Principals
Principal
Planning
Guides
Additional Resources
• Georgia Leadership Institute for School Improvement
http://www.galeaders.org/?q=pbm
• Central Office Transformation for District-Wide Teaching
and Learning Improvement
http://depts.washington.edu/ctpmail/PDFs/S2CentralAdmin-04-2010.pdf
• Making Good Choices: Districts Take the Lead
http://www.centerforcsri.org/pubs/mgcDistrictsLead.pdf
• Seven Strategies for District Transformation
http://erstrategies.org/documents/pdf/ers-sevenstrategies.pdf