Washington State Fellows
2015-16 Instructional Leadership Goals
Ensuring Equity, High Expectations, and Quality Professional Learning Opportunities for Educators that Result in Increased Student Achievement
The Instructional Leadership component of the Fellows work is a common foundation and through line for building capacity in teacher leaders. These
Instructional Leadership Goals for the 2015-16 Washington State Fellows are meant to be more fully developed by each region through collaborations among
the math, science, and English language arts coordinators. The Equity in Education goals are meant inform the Fellows work and to be woven throughout the
Fellows leadership work within the context of each region and considered when designing and reflecting on the Fellows’ professional learning experiences. By
connecting these Leadership Goals with the SAMPLE Fellows Instructional Leadership Convening Blueprint, the coordinators from all nine ESDs can collaborate
and share resources to promote coherence within and across the further implementation of these goals.
Overarching
Goal 1
Goal 2
Instructional
Leadership
Outcomes
The WA State Fellows will collaborate with
state, regional, district, and local
structures to build coherence in
supporting effective implementation of
the WA State Learning Standards (CCSS
and NGSS), by focusing on shifts in
instructional practice to increase student
learning.
Creating an Action Plan
The WA State Fellows will use
the components of the
Fundamentals of LearningMaking Meaning to create
an Action Plan that will
encourage and support
collaborative learning
communities for all.
Understanding Change
The WA State Fellows will begin
to understand change
readiness in themselves and
fellow educators to support the
expectations of the Washington
State Learning Standards.
Fellows will identify tools (how to
support a PLC, talk with
administrators, how to motivate
resistant adults) that will support
educators to move along the
continuum to greater readiness.
Educational Communities
The WA State Fellows will support
educator practice and adult learning
by modeling and encouraging selfreflective, intellectually engaging and
collaborative learning communities for
all.
Fundamentals
of Learning
Connection
The Fundamentals of Learning Framework
will support educator planning and
implementation of the CCSS and NGSS to
successfully reach high expectations for
career, college and life.*
FoL-Making Meaning
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Thinking critically,
creatively, and met
cognitively
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Connecting Prior
Knowledge to New
Learning
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Using language,
Symbols, and Texts
FoL-Participating and
Contributing
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Engaging with Others in
Learning
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Communicating Ideas,
Feelings, Perspectives, and
Understanding
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Relating to Other People’s
Ideas, Feelings, and
Experiences
FoL-Managing Learning
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Taking Personal Responsibility
for Learning
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Adapting Learning Tactics
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Persevering with Challenges
Equity in
Education
Connections+
Tools and resources focused on
supporting every educator, including
those working with English language
learners, migrant and students who
experience high mobility rates, students
with special needs, and students living in
poverty so that “each student has equal
access to public education without
discrimination =…” to fully engage in civic
life
Develop “innovative
professional development
tailored to meet the needs
of today’s contemporary
classrooms which are
growing more diverse.
Develop tools and resources to
facilitate equal access, support
and involvement for all school
members—students, parents
and guardians, and educators.
“Professional development must be
embedded in the workday, deepen
and broaden teacher content
knowledge and self-awareness , be
rooted in best practice, allow for
collaborative efforts and provide the
supports, time, resources to enable
teachers to master new content,
pedagogy and learning tools and
incorporate them in their practice.”
Final for 2015-16 per Fellows Advisory, 10-7-15
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Goal 3
Washington State Fellows
2015-16 Instructional Leadership Goals
Ensuring Equity, High Expectations, and Quality Professional Learning Opportunities for Educators that Result in Increased Student Achievement
Citations and Resources to Support Instructional Leadership Goals
*Adapted from Page 3 of the Fundamentals of Learning, Copyright 2014 The Regents of the University of California
+Adapted from the WA State Office of Civil Rights and the Department of Education, Office of Civil Rights for the Equity and Excellence Commission
Overarching Resources
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Fundamentals of Learning by
Margaret Heritage and WestEd
WA State Learning Standards
Common Core State Standards
Next Generation Science
Standards
English Language
Proficiency(ELP) Standards
Levels of Leadership
CSTP Teacher Leader SelfAssessment
Goal 1Resources
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Goal 2 Resources
Fundamentals of Learning by Margaret
Heritage and WestED
Norms of Collaborative Work
http://www.thinkingcollaborative.com/n
orms-collaboration-toolkit/
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CSTP Framework
Mindset by Carol Dweck
Center for Public Education-Teaching
the Teachers:
http://www.centerforpubliceducation.or
g/teachingtheteachers
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Fundamentals of Learning by
Margaret Heritage and WestED
CSTP-Working with Adult Learners
Module and Framework
WA State Logic Model for Science
Outcomes
Concerns Based Adoption Model by
SEDL
Making Change (Board Game or
Computer Simulation-The Network
Inc.)
Our Iceberg is Melting
Final for 2015-16 per Fellows Advisory, 10-7-15
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Goal 3 Resources
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Fundamentals of Learning by
Margaret Heritage and
WestED
CSTP Framework on
Collaborative Work and or
Knowledge of Content &
Pedagogy