EDLD 5352 Instructional Leadership-Week 1 Assignment Week 1: Exploring Instructional Leadership through the Instructional Core and Self-Assessments NELP Standard 4: Learning and Instruction Candidates who successfully complete a building-level educational leadership preparation program understand and demonstrate the capacity to promote the current and future success and well-being of each student and adult by applying the knowledge, skills, and commitments necessary to evaluate, develop, and implement coherent systems of curriculum, instruction, data systems, supports, and assessment. Component 4.3 Program completers understand and can demonstrate the capacity to evaluate, develop, and implement formal and informal culturally responsive and accessible assessments that support data-informed instructional improvement and student learning and well-being. PSEL 4: Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment Effective educational leaders develop and support intellectually rigorous and coherent systems of curriculum, instruction, and assessment to promote each student’s academic success and well-being. Texas Principal Standards Pillar: Data-driven Instruction Principal Domain and Competency Domain II: Leading Learning Competency 4 Domain II Course-level Objectives (CLOs): 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Develop a fundamental understanding of instructional leadership. (Evaluating) (CLO1) Identify and interpret core elements of curriculum alignment used to improve student achievement (Knowledge & Analyzing) (CLO2) Analyze and evaluate data to drive instruction. (Analyzing) (CLO3) Formulate a professional development plan applying data driven decision making. (Creating) (CLO4) Exemplify requisite credentials and program requirements. (Understanding) (CLO5) Week 1 Learning Objectives (W1LO): 1. W1LO1: (CLO1) Examine the role of an instructional leader through the fundamentals of the Instructional Core. 2. W1LO2: (CLO1) Describe leadership skills that address the importance of improving instruction through self-assessment of School Leader Self-Assessment Tool and Educational Leadership Profile Survey. 3. W1LO3: (CLO2) Cultivate components of a professional development plan to improve instruction. 4. W1LO4: (CLO5) Program Requirements: Prepare Progress Check for submission. Lamar University Revised Spring 2019 v.0219 1 EDLD 5352 Instructional Leadership-Week 1 Assignment Overview: In Week 1 of this course you will examine a framework to help instructional leaders understand that the learner, curriculum, and instruction are interrelated. Change one part of this relationship, and you have to consider changes in the other two. Accountability in this relationship is both external and internal. External accountability addresses the question - how well are we doing? Internal accountability addresses the question - what are we doing? This week you will focus on the components of the Instructional Core, complete an Educational Leadership Profile Self-Assessment, and examine the seven levers for Quality Instruction and Culture. Rigor in learning activities, content, and instruction are a priority for instructional leaders of the 21st century. Resources: Week 1 Readings: Be sure you are logged into Blackboard in order to access all of the readings from these links. All References listed below are in APA format for citation. 1. Hallinger, P. (2003). Leading Educational Change: Reflections on the practice of instructional and transformational leadership. Cambridge Journal of Education, 33(3), 329– 338. https://doi-org.libproxy.lamar.edu/10.1080/0305764032000122005 https://libproxy.lamar.edu/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&d b=psyh&AN=2003-09787-001&site=eds-live 2. Suh, R. (2017). Instructional Leadership. (p.11) Salem Press Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://libproxy.lamar.edu/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&d b=ers&AN=89164275&site=eds-live 3. City, E. A., Elmore, R. F., Fiarman, S. E., & Teitel, L. (2009). Instructional rounds in education (p. 30). Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press. http://www.macombfsi.net/uploads/1/5/4/4/1544586/instructional_rounds_-_principles.pdf 4. Elmore, R. (2010). Leading the instructional core. In Conversation (Vol. 11, No. 3, p. 1-12). http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/policyfunding/leadership/summer2010.pdf 5. Desravines, J., Aquino, J., & Fenton, B. (2016). Breakthrough principals: A step-by-step guide to building stronger schools (p.49-55). John Wiley & Sons. 6. Bambrick-Santoyo, P. (2018). Leverage Leadership 2.0: A Practical Guide to Building Exceptional Schools (p.365-366). John Wiley & Sons. Lamar University Revised Spring 2019 v.0219 2 EDLD 5352 Instructional Leadership-Week 1 Assignment Week 1 Assignment Rubric: Use the Rubric to guide your writing. Tasks Level 1: Does not meet the minimum criteria Level 2: Approaches minimum criteria Level 3: Meets minimum criteria Level 4: Meets target criteria 4 points 6 points 8 points Candidate lists the three elements of the instructional core with little definition. (K) Candidate defines the three elements of the instructional core briefly and may lack clarity. (K) Candidate defines the three elements of the instructional core comprehensively and with clarity. (K) Candidate provides information, but no list of the seven principles for improving student learning. (K) Candidate provides an incomplete list of the seven principles for improving student learning. (K) Candidate provides in depth list of the seven principles for improving student learning. (. (K) Candidate articulates little supporting evidence from the readings and lectures in the summary. (S) Candidate articulates general supporting evidence from the readings and lectures in the summary. (S) Candidate articulates comprehensive evidence from the readings and lectures for specificity and clarity in the summary. (S) Candidate demonstrates superficial selfreflection regarding their identifiable Areas of Development or Areas of Strength from the School Leader SelfAssessment Tool and is lacking in specificity and clarity. (M) Candidate demonstrates an emerging depth of self-reflection regarding their identifiable Areas of Development or Areas of Strength from the School Leader SelfAssessment Tool and may be lacking in specificity and clarity. (M) Candidate demonstrates and articulates a depth of knowledge of one’s self- regarding their identifiable Areas of Development or Areas of Strength from the School Leader SelfAssessment Tool with specificity and clarity. (M) Candidate demonstrates superficial selfreflection regarding their identifiable weaknesses and strengths from the ELP and is lacking in Candidate demonstrates an emerging depth of self-reflection regarding their identifiable weaknesses and strengths from the ELP and may be Candidate demonstrates and articulates a depth of knowledge through self-reflection regarding their identifiable weaknesses and strengths from the 0 points Candidate lists the three elements of the Instructional Core instructional core. Summary (K) Candidate examines the elements of an instructional leader Candidate provides no information on the through the seven principles for fundamentals of improving student the Instructional learning. (K) Core by defining the three elements and listing the Candidate articulates seven principles no supporting for improving evidence from the student learning readings and lectures NELP 4 in the summary. (S) Part 1A: PSEL 4 W1LO1: (CLO1) Candidate demonstrates little or Self-Assessment no self-reflection Reflections regarding their identifiable Areas of Candidate Development or examines the Areas of Strength elements of an instructional leader from the School Leader Selfthrough the Assessment Tool. fundamentals of (M) the Instructional Core by defining the three elements and listing the seven principles for improving Candidate student learning demonstrates little or no self-reflection NELP 4 regarding their identifiable PSEL 4 weaknesses and W1LO1: (CLO1) strengths from the ELP. (M) W1LO2: (CLO1) Part 1B: Lamar University Revised Spring 2019 v.0219 3 EDLD 5352 Instructional Leadership-Week 1 Assignment specificity and clarity. (M) lacking in specificity and clarity. (M) ELP with specificity and clarity. (M) Candidate articulates no supporting evidence from the readings, lectures, or self-assessments in the reflections. (S) Candidate articulates little supporting evidence from the readings, lectures, or self-assessments in the reflections. (S) Candidate articulates general supporting evidence from the readings, lectures, or self-assessments in the reflections. (S) Candidate articulates comprehensive evidence from the readings, lectures, or self-assessments with specificity and clarity in the reflections. (S) Candidate provides no definition for the Seven Leadership Levers. (K) Candidate defines with little explanation the Seven Leadership Levers. (K) Candidate defines with a general understanding the Seven Leadership Levers. (K) Candidate defines with depth, specificity, and clarity the Seven Leadership Levers. (K) Candidate demonstrates little or no ability to give examples of Instructional Levers or Cultural Levers to improve teacher instruction or student achievement. (M) Candidate demonstrates superficial ability to give examples of Instructional Levers or Cultural Levers to improve teacher instruction or student achievement and is lacking in specificity and clarity. (M) Candidate demonstrates an emerging depth of knowledge and ability to give examples of Instructional Levers or Cultural Levers to improve teacher instruction or student achievement and may be lacking in specificity and clarity. (M) Candidate demonstrates and articulates a depth of knowledge and ability regarding examples of Instructional Levers or Cultural Levers to improve teacher instruction or student achievement with specificity and clarity. (M) Candidate demonstrates little or Draft: PD Initial no ability to provide Information initial information for a 3-Day Professional Candidate uses data sets to identify Development. (S) trends, patterns, and themes from student work, TAPR, and teachers’ professional development needs survey to plan provide the Initial Information for a 3-Day Professional Development. Candidate demonstrates an ambiguous ability to provide initial information for a 3Day Professional Development. and is lacking in specificity and clarity. (S) Candidate demonstrates an emerging depth of ability to provide initial information for a 3-Day Professional Development and may be lacking in specificity and clarity. (S) Candidate demonstrates and articulates a depth of knowledge and ability regarding initial information for a 3-Day Professional Development with specificity and clarity. (S) Part 2: Seven Levers: Define & Examples Candidate defines each of the Seven Leadership Lever and gives an example of each Instructional Levers and Cultural Levers used to improve teacher instruction or student achievement. NELP 4.3 PSEL 4 W1LO2: (CLO1) Part 3: NELP 4.4 PSEL 4 Lamar University Revised Spring 2019 v.0219 4 EDLD 5352 Instructional Leadership-Week 1 Assignment W1LO3: (CLO2) Writing Elements: W1LO3: (CLO2) Candidate had spelling, grammar, or technical writing errors. Candidate had no spelling, grammar, or technical writing errors. 0-points 3-points Part 1A: Instructional Core Summary Directions: A. Summary W1LO1:(CLO1): Using the Basic Writing Elements Model found in the Resource section of this course, complete the following summary regarding the Instructional Core. B. Cite any sources and/or readings used as evidence to support your statements in APA format. Directions: Compose 1-2 paragraphs (minimum 200-word) summary of the Instructional Instructional Core, by Dr. Richard Elmore from Harvard University, 2008. Define Core: each of the three elements of the core and list the seven principles for improving student learning. Summary: The instructional core has 3 components that make up a dependent triangle of the integration of resources to enhance student learning for all students. The three components are the students and the teacher in the presence of content. When all three elements are combined together the instructional core defines what students are actually asked to do with regard to the work they are given. There are seven principals identified by Dr. Richard Elmore in the article Instructional Rounds in Education. The first principle is “Increases in student learning occur only as a consequence of improvements in the level of content, teacher’s knowledge and skills, and student engagement.” So what the teacher brings to the equation with regard to knowledge and skills and content has the most impact. Lamar University Revised Spring 2019 v.0219 5 EDLD 5352 Instructional Leadership-Week 1 Assignment The second principle is “If you change any single element of the instructional core, you have to change the other two the affect student learning.” You might enhance the content knowledge and skills a teacher brings to the classroom, but if you do not ask more from the students through this newly gained knowledge then the teacher is doing most of the work and students aren’t making any of the gains. The third principle is “If you can’t see it in the core, it’s not there.” The dependent relational structure of the instructional must be present to affect high student performance. The fourth principle is: the task predicts performance.” This is demonstrated by what the students are actually being asked to do. If the task is low level then the outcome will be low level as well and the converse is true. High level content and teacher knowledge and skills combined with high level tasks produce higher level results in learning. The fifth principle is “the real accountability system is in the tasks that students are asked to do.” The sixth principle Elmore identifies is “we learn to do the work by doing the work, not by telling other people to do the work, not by having done the work at some time in the past, and not by hiring experts who can act as proxies for our knowledge about how to do the work.” The final principle is “description before analysis, analysis before prediction, prediction before evaluation.” We must deepen the work and improve the instructional practice of all teachers. City, E. A., Elmore, R. F., Fiarman, S. E., & Teitel, L. (2009). Instructional rounds in education. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press. Reference City, E. A., Elmore, R. F., Fiarman, S. E., & Teitel, L. (2009). Instructional rounds in education (p. 30). Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press. Part 1B: Self-Assessments: School Leader Tool and Educational Leadership Profile Directions: A. Self-Assessment Reflections W1LO2:(CLO1): Complete the following in-depth selfreflections regarding the results of your completed Self-Assessments by identifying your strengths and weaknesses not only a Leader, but an Instructional Leader. Use the selfreflective model of What? So What? Now What? found in the Resource section of your course. a. Access online School Leader Self-Assessment Tool (Access PowerPoint in Week 1 for instructions): Lamar University Revised Spring 2019 v.0219 6 EDLD 5352 Instructional Leadership-Week 1 Assignment https://www.aitsl.edu.au/tools-resources/resource/school-leadership-self-assessmenttool b. Print and complete Educational Leadership Profile: https://www.ndcel.org/cms/lib/ND07001211/Centricity/Domain/132/ELPpaper.pdf B. Cite any sources and/or readings used as evidence to support your statements in APA format. School Leader SelfAssessment Tool: The School Leader Self-Assessment Tool assists current and aspiring principals to locate their practice within the Leadership Profiles. Identify your strengths and opportunities for development. Directions: After completing the School Leader Self-Assessment Tool, compose 1-2 paragraphs (200-word) describing your identified Areas for Development and Areas for Strength. In the area of focusing on value and diversity in the survey I find myself scoring very high. I think this is due to a teaching assignment that I held for 10 years. First and foremost I was a special education teacher that served in the roles of resource, inclusion, and content mastery. It was in this role that I encountered students from many different backgrounds and social and economic situations. I started to notice that it never mattered what stage or station in life a student came from. What was important was the fact that everyone had their own life experience and perspective that was unique to their lived experience. I quickly realized that everyone could benefit from seeing things in a different light. Just hearing facts presented in a way that had never been contemplated before because students have never had to solve different sets of problems contributed to the discussions and brought forth a new understanding and consensus. Having students from diverse backgrounds only served to strength the educational process and forged a new understanding of challenges faced by other cultures and populations. I believe that a strong and diverse staff will only help to foster this process and create the same dynamic in the teaching staff. It will help the development of curriculum and strengthen the PLC community. Educational Leadership Directions: After completing the Educational Leadership Profile (ELP) SelfAssessment, compose 1-2 paragraphs (200-word) describing your results from the assessment listed below. Items resulting in a 1 or 2 score on your ELP Self- Lamar University Revised Spring 2019 v.0219 7 EDLD 5352 Instructional Leadership-Week 1 Assignment Profile: The Education Leadership Profile is designed to gather information to help school leaders strengthen their abilities to improve learning for all students. Assessment should be identified as weaknesses. Elements scoring a 5 or 6 should be identified as strengths. As I completed the School Leader Self-Assessment tool it became apparent to me that one of the biggest areas of weakness for me was in the area of vision and purpose. I ranked the lowest in those categories and could stand to make significant improvements focusing my attention on developing those attributes. The reason I am lacking in this area of leadership and development is partially due to the fact that I have never been in the position of being the individual that created and put forth a set of ideas and principals that would govern the direction a campus would take. I have always been a team player and supporter of the campus and district vision but only to that extent. With that being said, I do have some experience in this arena though. I have been a head coach for the past 13 years. It is in this respect, only on a much smaller scale, that the role of the individual in charge directs the success of the program which has some correlation. I as the head coach create the vision of what success looks like to us from the stand point of the current situation. Progress will ebb and flow and the vision needs to be reflexive to the realities and challenges that arise from year to year. I did score high on the attribute of demonstrating a passion for student learning. I believe that education is the key to the quality of life that an individual can realize. I know that all students can learn and I can believe teachers and their efforts will have a great impact on what a student is able to learn and achieve in the classroom. I believe it is incumbent to take an active role in engaging students and their activities while demonstrating an encouraging and supportive perspective with regard to all student learning. Reference On-Line Survey Page/School Leader Self-Assessment Tool. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.aitsl.edu.au/tools-resources/resource/school-leadership-self-assessment-tool On-Line Surveys Page / Educational Leadership Profile (ELP). (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.ndcel.org/Page/389 Lamar University Revised Spring 2019 v.0219 8 EDLD 5352 Instructional Leadership-Week 1 Assignment Part 2: The Seven Levers for Quality Instruction and Culture Directions: A. The Seven Levers W1LO1:(CLO1): Review the principle core instructional and cultural areas that are identified as the Seven Levers. These principles allow for “consistent, transformational, and replicable growth” in learning. They are found in your Leverage Leadership 2.0 textbook on pages 8, 365, and 366. In the chart below define each Lever. Then, give an example that can be used on a campus to improve teacher instruction or student achievement. Examples are listed in gray for you to reference, delete examples prior to beginning. B. Use 12 pt. black font: Times New Roman. The table cells will expand to fit your text. Instructional Levers Cultural Levers 1. Data-driven Instruction 2. Instructional Planning 3. Observation 4. Professional 5. Student and Feedback Development Culture 6. Staff Culture 7. Managing School Leadership Teams Define: Define: Define: Define: Define: Data-driven instruction. Define the road map for rigor and adapt teaching to meet students' needs. Instructional planning. Plan backwards to guarantee strong lessons. Observation and feedback. Coach teachers to improve the learning. Define: Define: Professional Student development. culture. Strengthen Create a culture and strong instruction with culture hands-on where Unit plans. Craft Observe training that learning can data-driven unit frequently and sticks. thrive. plans that are consistently. Assessment. Set aligned to the Lock in What to teach. Set your the road map level of rigor frequent and Create vision. What for rigor. you wish your regular objectives that do you want students to observations. are highest students and Analysis. reach. leverage, adults to be Identify the Identify the key measurable, and doing in gaps in student Lesson plans. action step. school? understanding. Build effective Identify the top bite-size. areas for How to teach. Roll it out to Action. Reteach day-to-day See It. Name It. your staff. key content to lesson plans that growth. will drive get students on Give effective Do It. Reflect. Give student learning. feedback. See Making it stick. multiple track. opportunities It. Name It. Do Monitor Systems. Create Coaching planning. Guide It. implementation to practice systems and and coach for and rehearse procedures to your teachers to Monitor and before results. ensure constant master the skills follow up. stepping into that will make Develop data-driven Leverage the improvement. them systems to Leadership 2.0: classroom. outstanding monitor teacher A Practical Lamar University Revised Spring 2019 v.0219 Staff culture. Build and support the right team. Managing school leadership teams. Train instructional Set the vision. Name leaders to the behaviors expand your you wish to impact across see, and set the school. clear roles and schedules. Choose your team. Look for reliability and receptiveness to reach the 12:1 ratio. Roll it out. Lead by example, create a culture of Train your practice, and team. Set build their relationships. schedule, lead PD, and use Protect it. Narrate the the onepagers to positive, identify the guide them. gaps, lead Monitor the accountabilit school. See It. 9 EDLD 5352 Instructional Leadership-Week 1 Assignment Leverage Leadership 2.0: A Practical Guide to Building Exceptional Schools by Paul BambrickSantoyo lesson planners in their own right. Monitoring planning. Observe lessons in action to find out which parts of your plans are working well in practice. Leverage Leadership 2.0: A Practical Guide to Building Exceptional Schools by Paul BambrickSantoyo development, and follow up accordingly. Guide to Building Exceptional Schools by Paul Leverage Leadership 2.0: BambrickSantoyo A Practical Guide to Building Exceptional Schools by Paul BambrickSantoyo Roll it out to your students. Give multiple opportunities to practice to lock in habits across the school. y conversation s, and follow up. Leverage Leadership 2.0: A Practical Guide to Building Monitor and Exceptional maintain. Schools by Lead Paul publicly, Bambrickmanage Santoyo individually, evaluate progress, and implement wholeschool resets. Name It. Do It. Lead effective leadership team meetings. Focus on instructional leadership. Leverage Leadership 2.0: A Practical Guide to Building Exceptional Schools by Paul BambrickSantoyo Leverage Leadership 2.0: A Practical Guide to Building Exceptional Schools by Paul BambrickSantoyo Example: Example: Example: Example: Reading and English Teachers will meet to review data and create instruction that will strengthen rigor and configure re teaching opportunities to impact EOC Reading and English teachers will mine the data to ensure that lessons are aligned to standards and are challenging, relevant, and correlate to the TEKS Administrative team will perform frequent and consistent observations and identify areas for professional growth. Administrators will meet with Areas of needed Meet with improvement student will be body/ staff at identified the through beginning of observation. the school Local school year to lay data driven out the Professional vision of the development school and opportunities what we are will be crafted striving to Lamar University Revised Spring 2019 v.0219 Example: Example: Example: Principle will regularly meet with staff to define roles and expectations for the staff. Principal will be visible and Administrator will meet regularly with teacher leadership teams to create challenging professional development trainings that strengthen 10 EDLD 5352 Instructional Leadership-Week 1 Assignment scores in a positive way. teachers to discuss the observed areas for improvement and craft strategies to better effect classroom instruction. to effect teacher instruction and lesson creation. New strategies will be implemented to affect the necessary change. Reflection will occur post implementation to determine if course corrections need to be made to the implementation of the plan. achieve. consistent Make the with holding vision a themselves focal point in accountable the halls and to the same classrooms standards through and set the signage and example as messaging. the Use social instructional media to tell leader. the Principal community will clearly about the define the schools roles and vision and to responsibiliti tell our story es during the and the hiring success of process and the students stress the and their importance achievement of adherence s. to the vision and policies to all prospective hires.k teacher strategies and lesson delivery. Reference Bambrick-Santoyo, P. (2018). Leverage Leadership 2.0: A Practical Guide to Building Exceptional Schools (p.365-366). John Wiley & Sons. Lamar University Revised Spring 2019 v.0219 11 EDLD 5352 Instructional Leadership-Week 1 Assignment Part 3: Draft: Element for Professional Development: Comprehensive School-Level Instructional Leadership 3-Day Professional Development Plan The final signature assessment in this course is to write a comprehensive, school-level instructional leadership 3-Day professional development plan. This plan will be due in Week 4 and include multiple elements. This week you will focus on one of the elements called The Initial Information. Directions: A. Data Sets W1LO3:(CLO2): Working with your data sets given with this week’s assignment, begin to identify trends, patterns, and themes from student work, the TAPR, and the results from a teachers’ professional development needs survey to focus your 3-Day Professional Development Plan. Examples are listed in gray for you to reference, delete examples prior to beginning. B. Complete the Professional Development Initial Information. C. Use 12 pt. black font: Times New Roman. The table cells will expand to fit your text. School-Level 3-Day Professional Development Plan Template Professional Development Initial Information Focus of Topic: (Topic) Objective: (Objective) School Name: Brock High School Instructional Leader Professional Development Committee Members: Date plan was created: Dates plan will be conducted: Dates plan will be in effect: Adam Mihok Date by which time plan will be updated and revised for upcoming school year: July 1st 2019 Resources to purchase: Books and training materials Lunch for staff, Tools for implementation Assistant Principals, Department Heads, Curriculum Specialist Special Education Teachers, Instructional Coaches, March 6th, 2019 March 18th 2019 March 19th 2019 thru June 5th 2019 Lamar University Revised Spring 2019 v.0219 12 EDLD 5352 Instructional Leadership-Week 1 Assignment Cost: $1000.00 Lamar University Revised Spring 2019 v.0219 13