School leaders, especially those serving in school turnaround contexts, play an important role in shaping access to excellent educators for all students. As states move forward with Equitable Access Plan implementation, the Center on Great Teachers and Leaders (GTL Center) is offering two new resources that help to identify the standards and competencies that principals need to succeed.
Each state has professional leadership standards that communicate what principals should know and do to improve schools and student learning. With funding from The Wallace Foundation, the GTL Center developed an interactive online map to quickly and easily locate information about school leadership standards in all 50 states. The resource allows you to explore how leadership standards have been adopted, adapted, and used by states to support principals, as well as how these policies change over time.
The second resource is a new Professional Learning Module: Recruit, Select, and Support: Turnaround Leader Competencies (October 2015). Leading a school turnaround is complex work; but research shows that there are specific competencies that school leaders need for successful turnaround efforts. The new module will allow participants to learn how to use these competencies to recruit, select, and provide ongoing support to school principals working in a turnaround context. The material was developed through a partnership among four organizations: The Center on Great Teachers and Leaders, The Center on School Turnaround, Public Impact, and University of Virginia (UVA) Darden/Curry Partnership for Leaders in Education.
The module is organized into three parts:
Part 1: Understanding Turnaround Leader Competencies (Available)
Part 2: Recruiting and Selecting Turnaround Leaders (Available)
Part 3: Developing and Retaining Turnaround Leaders (Coming Soon)
To access the module, see: http://www.gtlcenter.org/technical-assistance/professional-learning-modules/recruit-select-and-support-turnaround-leader-competencies
For the new online tool, see: National School Leadership Standards Map
