The Principal’s Role in Systemic Change for
Reading
Commitment
Demonstrate Your Commitment to the Systemic Change in Reading Training
Appoint someone to take your place at school on training days. Choose someone who can handle any emergency without you.Attend every meeting from beginning to end. Be a model for your team. Do not schedule other activities on training days.
The Principal’s Role in Systemic Change for
Reading
Collaboration
Collaborative Partner to the Shared Vision
From your Systemic Change Process Cycle
1. Shared vision.Improve reading
achievement for all students but especially
for students with disabilities.
Collaborative Partner of the
Implementation Team
Engage teachers, parents, and students in making the vision a realityActively participate in the instructional change processEncourage everyone in making the vision a realityPromote and support the vision every day
Collaborative Partner of the Implementation TeamLearn and understand the new
methods of instructional strategies and interventions for reading that will impact all of your students, but especially
those students with disabilities.
Support
The Principal’s Role in Systemic Change for
Reading
Support the Implementation
Team
Allocate uninterrupted time to meetEnsure all staff attend professional development activitiesProvide resources/materials for implementationRoutinely visit classrooms to observe implementationEncourage collaborative conversation regarding new reading instructional methods, strategies, and techniques for student progress.
Create and Support Staff Collaborations
Create collaborations between special education and general education staff that impact every student’s reading success.
Allow time for all teachers to routinely meet to evaluate data and monitor student progress in reading.
Develop data-driven decision meetings to meet the specific needs of every student.
Work with your staff to solidify and praise these efforts.
Involve Your Staff and Parents in Supporting Your Systemic Change
Actively involve your parents in the systemic change process.
Keep them informed about their children’s progress and interventions used to increase specific reading skills.
Make the data, data-driven decisions, and instructional strategies the basis of academic discussions and conferences centered
around all students’ achievement in reading.Give them specific strategies to help their children at home.
Care
The Principal’s Role in Systemic Change for
Reading
Involve Your Students in Your Systemic
ChangeShow the students you are interested
in their reading skills.Be visible in the classrooms so the
students feel your support.Make sure all students are receiving
the support they need.Let the students know you, the staff, and their
parents are helping them reach success in reading!
…effective instructional leaders
do for teachers what effective teachers
do for students!
To make a difference in improving the reading
achievement of all students…
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