Name that Domain : OLF
Helps staff and diverse stakeholders to understand the relationship between their school’s vision and board and provincial policy initiatives and priorities.
What is Setting Directions?
Capital that we have individually; our qualifications, knowledge, skills and competencies; things that we have alone and can exercise alone; individual efficacy; belief in what “I” can do
What is Human Capital?
Aligning Resources means how to allocate resources more deliberately and productively to achieve our student achievement and improvement goals
What is True?
BIPSA
What is the "Board Improvement Plan for Student Achievement"?
"Professional Capital is simple to describe but very hard to do."
Who is Andy Hargreaves?
Encourage staff to develop and review their own goals for professional growth and the relationship of those goals to school goals and priorities.
What is Building Relationships and Developing People?
The abilities to collaborate and work together; to trust each other, to share knowledge, focus on common projects and take collective responsibility; the belief in what “we can” do!
What is Social Capital?
Miles and Frank (2008) claim that money is the most important resource in supporting student learning goals.
What is False?
Miles and Frank advised, “We focus first on people, second on time and third on dollars. We need to use all three strategically to support student learning goals.”
S.M.A.R.T.
What is "Specific. Measurable. Attainable. Realistic, Timely and Tangible"?
His research tells us that school leaders who promote challenging goals, and then establish safe environments for teachers to critique, question and support their colleagues, have the greatest effect on student outcomes.
Who is John Hattie?
Distribute resources in ways that are closely aligned with the school’s improvement priorities
What is Developing the Organization to Support Desired Practices?
Growth of judgment through experience, expertise, evidence and practice
What is "Decisional Capital"?
When establishing a school-wide focus, Reeves (2011) advises school leaders to identify a maximum of six priority instructional initiatives that are clearly linked to student needs.
What is True?
P.E.L.P.
What is "Public Education Leadership Project"?
One of the main messages of the PELP framework is the importance of discipline and focus in the process of framing a strategy and then using it to transform the organization’s culture and the actions of the people in it.
Their work is motivated by the question: “How do we understand a ‘return’ on public education?”
Who are Hargreaves and Fullan?
Incorporate the explicit use of data when making decisions that relate to student learning and school improvement
What is Improving the Instructional Program?
These resources are often embedded in a web of relationships and practices in schools and systems. One example of this category is “relational trust” identified by Bryk and Schneider (2002) as an essential resource for school improvement.
What are abstract resources?
A systematic approach to aligning resources connects the allocation of resources with student performance goals.
What is True?
It starts with an overall framework and includes professional learning supports and ongoing help so that many more people in the system can: • use student data for planning • focus spending on identified needs and priorities • develop leadership and decision-making structures that support goals • evaluate improvement efforts credibly • communicate effectively with peers about what works. – Bray 2004
OLF
What is the "Ontario Leadership Framework"?
"Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do." Hint: He revolutionized communication in the 21st century.
Who is Steve Jobs?
Help staff make connections between school goals and ministry goals in order to strengthen commitment to school improvement efforts
What is Securing Accountability?
Resources that can’t be bought, but must be created by teachers and education leaders over time; for example, bringing about authentic shared leadership.
What are "complex resources"?
Marzano and Waters (2009) identified this as one of the five specific actions of successful leadership in connection to student achievement:
1. Leaders must prescribe a course of action regarding programming supports for achievement and instruction without considering input from teachers
1. Ensure collaborative goal setting 2. Establish non-negotiable goals for achievement and instruction 3. Create board alignment with and support of district goals 4. Monitor achievement and instruction goals 5. Allocate resources to support goals for achievement and instruction.
CLC
What is "Core Leadership Capacities"?
1. Setting goals 2. Aligning resources with priorities 3. Promoting collaborative learning cultures 4. Using data 5. Engaging in courageous conversations.
“Leadership is the pivotal explanation for turnaround success.”
Who is Ken Leithwood. Dr. Leithwood is Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy at OISE/University of Toronto.