ISSLC Leadership Standards

Part 1

October 22, 2015

Instructional Leadership

“In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are”

Max Depree

“If you want to continue leading, you must continue changing”

From Howard Hendricks’ Teaching to Change Lives

A leader must first understand the two important requisites to bringing about change: knowing the technical requirements of the change, and understanding the attitude and motivational demands for bringing about.

From John Maxwell’s Developing the Leader Within You

Resistance to Change

• The Change isn’t Self-Initiated• Routine is Disrupted• Change Creates fear of the Unknown• The Purpose of the Change is Unclear• Change Creates Fear of Failure• The Rewards for Change Don’t Match the Effort• People are Too Satisfied with the Way Things Are• Change Won’t Happen When People Engage in

Negative Thinking• The Followers Lack Respect for the Leader

Resistance to Change

• The Leader is Susceptible to Feeling of Personal Criticism

• Change May Mean Personal Loss• Those Who Will Lose• Those Who are Neutral • Those Who will Benefit

• Change Requires Additional Commitment• “…ability to change deals with perspective. Many people are

willing to change but, because of the way they perceive their present circumstances and responsibilities, they are unable to change.”

• Narrow-Mindedness Thwarts Acceptance of New Ideas

• Tradition Resists Change

From Developing the Leader Within You by John C. Maxwell

Pareto Principal (20/80 Principle)

20 percent of your priorities will give you 80 percent of your

productionIF

You spend your time, energy, money, and personnel on the top

20 percent of your priorities.

Pareto Principal (20/80 Principle)

Examples of the Pareto Principle:

Time

Counseling

Products

Reading

Job

Speech

Donations

Leadership

Picnic

20 percent of our time produces 80 percent of the results

20 percent of the people take up 80 percent of our time.

20 percent of the product bring in 80 percent of the profit.

20 Percent of the book contains 80 percent of the content.

20 percent of our work give us 80 percent of our satisfaction

20 percent of the presentation produces 80 percent of the content.

20 percent of the people will give 80- percent of the money.

20 percent of the people will make 80 percent of the decisions.

20 percent of the people will eat 80 percent of the food.

ISSLC Standards Part 1

Standards 1 -6

Standard 1: Vision and Mission

•An educational leader promotes the success and well-being of every student by ensuring the development, articulation, implementation, and stewardship of a child centered vision of quality schooling that is shared by all members of the school community.

Standard 1: Vision and Mission Functions:

A.Collaboratively develops, implements, and promotes a shared vision and mission

B.Collects sand uses data to identify goals, assess organizational effectiveness, and promotes organizational learning

C.Create and implement plans to achieve goals D.Promote continuous and sustainable

improvement E. Monitor and evaluate progress and revise plansF. Acts in ways that consistently reflect the

school's district's vision, mission, and values

Standard 2: Instructional Capacity

•An educational leader promotes the success and well-being of every student by enhancing instructional capacity.

Standard 2: Instructional Capacity Functions:

A. Recruits and hires effective teachers and other professional staff

B. Develops individual and collective capacity of staff

C. Ensures on-going and differentiated professional learning

D. Supports staff with human, financial, and technological resources

E. Employs research-anchored and valid systems of performance management

F. Buffers learning and teaching from disruptive forces

G. Provides emotional support to staff teachers and other professional staff

Standard 3: Instruction

•An educational leader promotes the success and well-being of every student by promoting instruction that maximizes student learning.

Standard 3: Instruction Functions:

A. Maintains a culture of high expectations and challenge

B. Ensures a focus on authenticity and relevance in instruction

C. Ensures that instruction is anchored on best understandings of child development

D. Ensures strengths-based approaches to learning and teaching

E. Ensures the use of effective pedagogy to close learning gaps

F. Provides ongoing, salient, informative, and actionable feedback to teachers and other professional staff

G. Ensures the use of pedagogy that treats students as individuals and promotes self-esteem

H. Ensures the presence of culturally congruent pedagogy and assessment

I. Monitors instruction and instructional time

J. Employs technology in the service of teaching and learning