Transforming Leadership
for Common Core
Amelia Massengill-McLeod
School Transformation Coach
District and School Transformation, DPI
Know- instructional leadership, common core
shifts, universal student practices
Understand-Universal student practices are not
going to happen by chance
Instructional leaders support intentional
implementation of CCSS
The instructional leader purposefully provides
materials and support structures (professional
development) to make the vision a reality
Do-Participate in discussions and activities
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Instructional Leadership
With your shoulder partner share your
personal definition of what it means to be
an instructional leader.
How others define Instructional Leadership
Instructional leadership can be defined as
"those actions that a principal takes, or
delegates to others, to promote growth in
student learning.“ eLead.org (Flath, 1989)
Instructional leadership involves setting
clear goals, allocating resources to
instruction, managing the curriculum,
monitoring lesson plans, and evaluating
teachers. (Phillips)
Instructional Leaders have knowledge to
lead implementation of the Common Core
State Standards.
IL have vision to integrate CCSS into broad
education improvement efforts.
IL build capacity as learning leaders.
ELA/Literacy Shifts
Building knowledge through content-rich
nonfiction
2. Reading, writing, and speaking grounded
in evidence from text, both literary and
informational
3. Regular practice with complex text and
its academic language
1.
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ACTIVITY
Reflecting on the Shifts for ELA/Literacy
Mathematics: Key Shifts
Focus: Focus strongly where the
standards focus.
2. Coherence: Think across grades, and
link to major topics
3. Rigor: In major topics, pursue
conceptual understanding, procedural
skill and fluency, and application
1.
ACTIVITY
Reflecting on the Shifts for Mathematics
Universal Student Practices for ELA
Students
-demonstrate independence
-build strong content knowledge
-respond to the varying demands of
audience, task, purpose and discipline
-comprehend as well as critique
-value evidence
-use technology and digital media
strategically and capably
-come to understand other perspectives
and cultures
Universal Practices for Mathematical Practice
-Make sense of problems and persevere in
solving them
-Reason abstractly and quantitatively
-Construct viable arguments and critique the
reasoning of others.
-Model with mathematics
-Use appropriate tools strategically
-Attend to precision
-Look for and make use of structure
-Look for and express regularity in repeated
reasoning
ACTIVITY
Two Stars and a Wish
On the form provided please offer two
things you will do with your knowledge of
instructional leadership as it relates to the
CCSS
AND
One suggestion to the presenter to improve
this session
Thank you for your attendance and
participation.
Resouces
http://www.sedl.org/change/leadership/
www.achievethecore.org
http://www.achievethecore.org/steal-thesetools/professional-developmentmodules/instructional-leadership-module
www.corestandards.org