 Participation in one of the three assessment models designed by the Texas State Board of Education Certification.
Individual conferences from the assessment experience.
A three-day summer institute to emphasize team building, visioning, and developing and extending professional development plans for school-based improvements.
Two, two-day retreats held in the fall and in the spring each year.
A speaker series featuring four nationally-recognized speakers during the year discussing the literature and research on Whole School Reform; for example, Maria J. Coolican, Ph.D., Adjunct Assistant Professor in the School of Education at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, discusses executive and organizational leadership development.
Monthly group meetings with two coaches on the first Monday of each month; these meetings provide continuous learning through reflective practice, exploring current research on teaching and learning for shared understanding and implications in leadership settings, and development of a professional plan for each participant.
Personalized school data examination to look for strengths and weaknesses on the school leader's campus; results of disagregating the data will form the basis for school planning. For example, a school leader may decide to examine how minority students are achieving compared to non-minority students and then conduct a gap analysis to determine appropriate teaching strategies.
Business and mentor partnerships with The Harvard Business School Alumni Club and Accenture, along with job shadowing. |
