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Providing the Conditions to Support Instructional Leadership

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About this Project

This engagement project is all about:

SLQS-Leading Learning: A superintendent establishes and sustains a learning culture in the school community that promotes ongoing critical reflection on practice, shared responsibility for student success and continuous improvement.

LQS- Leading a Learning Community: A leader nurtures and sustains a culture that supports evidence-informed teaching and learning. And LQS- Providing Instructional Leadership: A leader ensures that every student has access to quality teaching and optimum learning experiences.

Ideas

Building Capacity

How will you support school administrators to build/grow capacity in instructional leadership? What will you try?

Total Ideas Submitted: 27

November 03, 2023 (10:01 am)

Scot Leys says:

We have moved our Leadership mtgs to 3 sections of PD: 1. Operations 2. Instructional Leadership 3. Education Plan PD/work....

November 02, 2023 (12:05 pm)

Raime Drake says:

Continuing to work with our principals to build a sharply focused plan (clarify!) and a clear line of sight to every...

November 02, 2023 (11:59 am)

Dinah VanDonzel says:

Thank you for your session! AND all the resources. Your process is so clear and helpful. If we use our system structure of...

November 02, 2023 (11:59 am)

Julie Chorney says:

If we support our administrators with finding CLARITY, then we will see an enhanced sense of ownership which means we will...

November 02, 2023 (11:56 am)

Ryan Reed says:

Collaboratively working with other system leaders in our division to identify barriers to school-based leaders engaging in...

November 02, 2023 (11:54 am)

Carmen Larsen says:

Focus on 'improvement' not 'proving'. This really resonated with me and where we are in our Division.

November 02, 2023 (11:53 am)

D. Chase Ellis says:

Providing, clarity for our school leaders around the alignment of system and school priorities and goals.

November 02, 2023 (11:36 am)

Michael Craig says:

A pieces I want to dig into more: How can we systemically look at what to prioritize so that we can identify the weeds and...

November 02, 2023 (11:34 am)

Helmut Kaiser says:

As a school jurisdiction, we are in our second year of a Generative Dialogue model that has been developed by the University...

November 02, 2023 (11:34 am)

Jeff Thompson says:

We have refocused our Administrators’ Association Meetings to include a half-day focus on Professional Learning for school...

November 02, 2023 (11:34 am)

Corinne Kruse says:

In inquiry conversations, I am working on my questioning skills that are much more intentional and purposeful to help the...

November 02, 2023 (11:34 am)

Terri Reid says:

If we focus on Instructional Leadership in our collaborative learning community of elementary principals, we will see...

November 02, 2023 (11:33 am)

Tom Hamer says:

Create focus groups of administrators that will learn together and hold each other accountable

November 02, 2023 (11:33 am)

Lori Cooper says:

Explore the idea of "lean monitoring" with school leaders to help them in clarity of thinking to define their responsive...

November 02, 2023 (11:33 am)

Cathy Giesbrecht says:

Engage in more collaboration regarding instructional leadership approaches. This looks like empowerment for school leaders...

November 02, 2023 (11:32 am)

Cheryl Kuemper says:

Explore the School Impact Model as a tool to support strategic thinking and action focusing on Instructional Leadership.

November 02, 2023 (11:31 am)

Trisha Roffey says:

Chunking our goals and creating sustainable systems to get there. It is overwhelming to start because of the shear volume of...

November 02, 2023 (11:31 am)

Pat MacDonald says:

We will share the idea of intentionally embedding instructional leadership time into each Admin meeting, with a focus on...

November 02, 2023 (11:31 am)

Annalee Nutter says:

If Leaders share ideas amongst themselves about how they prioritize and practice Instructional Leadership, we will see...

November 02, 2023 (11:31 am)

Darren Young says:

Better use of school leadership team meetings to build instructional leadership capacity with a focus on evidence or...

November 02, 2023 (11:30 am)

Caroline Roberts says:

Frame instructional leadership as the assurance work

November 02, 2023 (11:30 am)

Natasha MacArthur-Poole says:

I really like the idea of framework questions for each monthly leadership meeting that help our leaders focus on their...

November 02, 2023 (11:30 am)

Garry Tink says:

During school visits - spending more time in classrooms talking about the instructional leadership that is occurring.

November 02, 2023 (11:30 am)

Trisha Roffey says:

Continue to share our Cup of Curriculum conversation guides so that principals know what to look for in the classroom, have...

November 02, 2023 (11:30 am)

Katie Graham says:

Bring the simplicity of the model to our admin council.

November 02, 2023 (11:29 am)

Terri-Lynn Duncan says:

We will embed 45 minutes to an hour at every admin meeting to work on our AERR goals and conversations with each other on...

November 02, 2023 (11:29 am)

Annalee Nutter says:

I am going to implement in our next step of Instructional Leadership plans, the question to leaders : "How do you...

Measuring Impact

What will be your indicators of success? How will you know?

Total Ideas Submitted: 7

November 02, 2023 (03:40 pm)

Terri-Lynn Duncan says:

There is qualitative and quantitative data for all schools that tell their story. As a support to admin spend some time...

November 02, 2023 (12:13 pm)

Jeff Thompson says:

If building capacity in Instructional Leadership is what we will continue to do, indicators of success will include...

November 02, 2023 (11:59 am)

Lori Cooper says:

Keeping it tight and clear. Triangulating scope with bandwidth over time.

November 02, 2023 (11:59 am)

Cathy Giesbrecht says:

It is difficult at times to determine success immediately. We need to be patient and look for small indicators of success. ...

November 02, 2023 (11:58 am)

Ryan Reed says:

Collecting feedback (both anecdotal and quantitative) data from our school-based leaders on whether the reduction of...

November 02, 2023 (11:58 am)

Trisha Roffey says:

When my principals say "this is my evidence" when they know and feel confident of what is happening in new curriculum

November 02, 2023 (11:32 am)

Annalee Nutter says:

We will continue the topic of Instructional Leadership in our monthly meetings using the Learn-Act-Reflect-Revise model to...