Leadership:

1. Leadership: Contributions to Student Outcomes

2. Context: Michelle White, FLPBS Clark Dorman, FL PS/RtI

3. Context: Workgroups • Secondary • Coaching • Program Evaluation • Data-Based Problem-Solving (DBPS) • Leadership/Teaming • Family and Community Engagement

4. Rationale: • SAPSI Data • PS/RtI Contact Survey Data • Coach Interview Data • Self-Report from Workshop Participants All confirming- Importance of District Leadership in Systems Change

5. Workgroup Goals: • Evidence based definition of Leadership empirically linked to improved student outcomes • Provision of support to districts to realize the components of the definition

6. Definition: Effective district leadership is evidenced by teams or individuals who: • Establish a vision with a sense of urgency for change, maintain focus and deliver a consistent message over time • Focus on schools (districts are successful when schools are successful) • Create relationships with stakeholders based upon mutual respect and shared responsibility • Engage in expert problem solving • Invest in professional development (Leithwood, 2010; Barnhardt, 2009; Crawford & Torgeson, 2007)

7. Definition: • Establish a vision with a sense of urgency for change, maintain focus and deliver a consistent message over time • Is it a living aspiration to work towards? • Need guiding questions, checklist and/or module to aid development/refinement of vision • Need task analysis to communicate the sense of urgency • Conduct permanent product reviews and surveys

8. Definition: • Focus on schools (districts are successful when schools are successful) • Help principals become stronger leaders, improve classroom instruction, and access to data management systems that facilitate effective, timely data-based decision-making • Are current data systems meaningful and integrated? • Need improved problem-solving skills for accurate and efficient data-based decision making • Need PD for improved instructional practices

9. Definition: • Create relationships with stakeholders based upon mutual respect and shared responsibility • Engage parents and other community stakeholder in the “turnaround efforts” • Leadership depends on “collective capacity” so these relationships are critical, not optional • Need template/module to guide/build stakeholders

10. Definition: • Engage in expert problem solving • Identify the correct problem efficiently and effectively • Engage in good problem analysis with an understanding that there are many causes for school underperformance • Know that there are several identified strategies for school improvement and apply appropriate strategies based upon school-specific needs • Evaluate the effectiveness of implemented strategies

11. Definition: • Invest in professional development • Building a comprehensive system for delivering meaningful PD of staff must be considered a major priority for the great majority of district leaders • Need training and technical assistance that is job embedded, ongoing and sustained aimed at building capacities directly related to turnaround challenges • Need District Needs Assessment with Action Planning Template • Need technical assistance provided to model skills

12. Crosswalk: Florida’s Leadership Standards FAC 6A-5.080 Evidence Based Leadership Definition Effective district leadership is evidenced by teams or individuals who: • Establish a vision with a sense of urgency for change, maintain focus and deliver a consistent message over time • Focus on schools (districts are successful when schools are successful) • Create relationships with stakeholders based upon mutual respect and shared responsibility • Engage in expert problem solving • Invest in professional development

13. Crosswalk:

14. Discussion: • As you return to your districts and engage in continued planning for MTSSS Implementation: • Is Leadership a component of your plan? • Are the Florida Leadership Standards used to guide leadership implementation? • What supports can we provide?

15. Our Plan: • Way of work with districts • Learn more about your needs for support through needs assessment and DAPP protocol via our District Support Personnel • What Input do you have for us? • What Questions do you have for us?