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Standards for School Leaders

Coaches' leadership skills that communicate trust building will increase teacher vulnerability and therefore teacher growth.

SLS - School Leadership Series The School Leadership Series consists of two assessments: The School Superintendent Assessment and the School Leaders Licensure Assessment.

Maryland Instructional Leadership Framework

Educational Leadership Policy Standards: ISLLC 2008

"The Keirsey Temperament Sorter®-II (KTS®-II) is the most widely used personality instrument in the world. It is a powerful 70 question personality instrument that helps individuals discover their personality type."

"The Framework for Teaching is a research-based set of components of instruction, aligned to the INTASC standards, and grounded in a constructivist view of learning and teaching. In this framework, the complex activity of teaching is divided into 22 components (and 76 smaller elements) clustered into four domains of teaching responsibility"

"Listening to Student Voices is a toolkit for K - 12 educational leaders and school-based teams interested in including students in continuous school improvement."

"Empowering questions can help coaches identify a teacher's agenda - what is important to the teacher. Empowering questions reveal a teacher's value system and help the coach understand what makes the teacher tick. Coaches develop credibility when their feedback continually relates to what an individual teacher values. "

"The trick is, how do you know what you do not know? How do you maintain the fresh perspective of one who is seeing for the first time?"

Strategies for K-12 Technology Leaders

"That's why Penn State has worked with the Pennsylvania Department of Education to create a professional development series for these leaders. The first course begins Sept. 23."

Conversations on leadership with Ken Blanchard

Slides ~ Web 2.0 in Schools: Leadership & Policy Initiative

"Based on current research on teacher efficacy and best practices, the plans have been designed to facilitate both school planning and district level planning. Each plan includes detailed, user-friendly guidance to help professional development committee members, administrators, teachers and other members of the school community understand the elements of high quality professional development. "

Maryland's Teacher Professional Development Standards are intended to guide efforts to improve professional development for all teachers. These standards call on teachers, principals and other school leaders, district leaders and staff, the Maryland State Department of Education, institutions of higher education, and cultural institutions and organizations1 across the state to work together to ensure that professional development is of the highest quality and readily accessible to all teachers.