5.1 PERSPECTIVE
Demonstrate the ability to assess the organizational structure for assets, capacity for systemic change, and level of coherence. Match assets and needs with appropriate strategies and interventions. Set goals for sustaining organizational capacity.
5.1.1 ECOLOGICAL MAPPING
Engage constituents in analyzing how individual and collective roles and responsibilities create and impact the school’s systems and contribute to whole
Engage constituents in identifying and analyzing effective use of time using the urgent/important framework
Analyze formal and informal systems, and interrelationships, and interdependence to assess effective and ineffective operational structures and systems
Determine support that is needed to achieve organizational vision
Areas of strength:
Areas of challenge:
Engage constituents in analyzing how individual and collective roles and responsibilities create and impact the school’s systems and contribute to whole
Engage constituents in identifying and analyzing effective use of time using the urgent/important framework
Analyze formal and informal systems, and interrelationships, and interdependence to assess effective and ineffective operational structures and systems
Determine support that is needed to achieve organizational vision
Next steps and action plan:
5.1.2 ORGANIZATIONAL READINESS
Engage the school and community in assessing the will, skill, knowledge, and capacity of the organization to function optimally in the service of a coherent and shared vision and increasing capacity for key outcomes
Use the analysis to determine changes that need to be made
Assess the school’s capacity to make changes, including level of constituent access to information and capacity of organizational actors
Areas of strength:
Areas of challenge:
Engage the school and community in assessing the will, skill, knowledge, and capacity of the organization to function optimally in the service of a coherent and shared vision and increasing capacity for key outcomes
Use the analysis to determine changes that need to be made
Assess the school’s capacity to make changes, including level of constituent access to information and capacity of organizational actors
Next steps and action plan:
5.1.3 SYSTEMS LEADERSHIP
Engage others in determining focus
Articulate potential actions/choices and identify ramifications and trade-offs
Articulate the responsibilities that are shared or delegated and/or reserved for decision by the principal
Support distributed leadership practices by positioning informal leaders in ways that allow them to explore difficult challenges or complex answers/responses
In carrying out the work, support experiment, embrace disequilibrium and hold each other accountable
Foster adaptive leadership in self and others
Areas of strength:
Engage others in determining focus
Articulate potential actions/choices and identify ramifications and trade-offs
Articulate the responsibilities that are shared or delegated and/or reserved for decision by the principal
Support distributed leadership practices by positioning informal leaders in ways that allow them to explore difficult challenges or complex answers/responses
In carrying out the work, support experiment, embrace disequilibrium and hold each other accountable
Foster adaptive leadership in self and others
Areas of challenge:
Next steps and action plan:
5.2 STRUCTURES
Assess, analyze, design, align, implement, monitor, and continuously improve operational and school level policy structures that support the school learning goals. Analyze and align legal requirements with school operations and governance systems.
5.2.1 OPERATIONS
Use inventories and audits to assess key operations, including climate and culture
Ensure that key operations (attendance, fiscal, personnel, governance, legal, day to day systems, culture, and climate) are in place and working effectively
Establish school structures and processes that engage all constituents in taking ownership of effective operations
Ensure smooth, safe, and positive day-to-day operations that align the legal, fiscal, policy, and personnel structures to leverage attainment of optimal student learning
Areas of strength:
Ensure that key operations (attendance, fiscal, personnel, governance, legal, day to day systems, culture, and climate) are in place and working effectively
Ensure smooth, safe, and positive day-to-day operations that align the legal, fiscal, policy, and personnel structures to leverage attainment of optimal student learning
Establish school structures and processes that engage all constituents in taking ownership of effective operations
Areas of challenge:
Use inventories and audits to assess key operations, including climate and culture
Next steps and action plan:
5.2.2 GOVERNANCE AND LEGAL STRUCTURES
Assess the decision-making bodies for level of function and equitable participation
Utilize decision-making authority to foster leadership throughout the school
Align, implement, and monitor site plan goals and actions in ways that foster school coherence and adhere to policy and legal mandates
Communicate key legal rights and responsibilities of administrators, teachers, support staff, family/caregivers, and students
Develop appropriate district contacts to assist in assessing and making decisions with regard to legal and policy issues
Areas of strength:
Utilize decision-making authority to foster leadership throughout the school
Align, implement, and monitor site plan goals and actions in ways that foster school coherence and adhere to policy and legal mandates
Communicate key legal rights and responsibilities of administrators, teachers, support staff, family/caregivers, and students
Areas of challenge:
Assess the decision-making bodies for level of function and equitable participation
Develop appropriate district contacts to assist in assessing and making decisions with regard to legal and policy issues
Next steps and action plan:
5.2.3 RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
Acquire and align fiscal, human, time, and material resources to support learning of all student subgroups
Engage others in assessing the effective use of resources to achieve equitable goals
Regularly assess the ways in which resources diminish dynamic inequality and are aligned to equity goals of school
Areas of strength:
Acquire and align fiscal, human, time, and material resources to support learning of all student subgroups
Areas of challenge:
Engage others in assessing the effective use of resources to achieve equitable goals
Regularly assess the ways in which resources diminish dynamic inequality and are aligned to equity goals of school
Next steps and action plan:
5.2.4 DISCIPLINE SYSTEMS
Collect and analyze discipline data for patterns
Analyze the school’s discipline system for level of equitable responsiveness to students and families
Analyze the ways in which the administrative discipline responsibilities interfere with attention to teaching and learning
Develop systems for connecting classroom observations to discipline oversight
Maintain balance between dual role of student advocate and teacher advocate
Inform teachers of rights and responsibilities with respect to disciplinary practices
Investigate alternatives to disciplinary practices that create an equitable response to students and families
Areas of strength:
Collect and analyze discipline data for patterns
Analyze the school’s discipline system for level of equitable responsiveness to students and families
Analyze the ways in which the administrative discipline responsibilities interfere with attention to teaching and learning
Develop systems for connecting classroom observations to discipline oversight
Maintain balance between dual role of student advocate and teacher advocate
Inform teachers of rights and responsibilities with respect to disciplinary practices
Investigate alternatives to disciplinary practices that create an equitable response to students and families
Areas of challenge:
Next steps and action plan:
5.2.5 FAMILY AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Develop and implement systems for assessing service provider connection with school goals and parent complaints
Redefine and broaden conceptions of parent/caregiver involvement
Cultivate effective relationships with onsite staff related to after-school programs and family services
Develop policies and procedures for all adults working with students on the school campus
Investigate and implement strategies to address conflicts that arise among constituents
Areas of strength:
Develop and implement systems for assessing service provider connection with school goals and parent complaints
Redefine and broaden conceptions of parent/caregiver involvement
Cultivate effective relationships with onsite staff related to after-school programs and family services
Develop policies and procedures for all adults working with students on the school campus
Investigate and implement strategies to address conflicts that arise among constituents
Areas of challenge:
Next steps and action plan:
5.3 MONITORING
Develop, align, implement, and monitor organizational and programmatic evaluation systems that support equitable student academic, civic, and social-emotional outcomes.
5.3.1 ORGANIZATIONAL IDENTITY
Engage others in continuous review of the core values and vision as evidenced in the school’s systems
Establish routine processes for dialogue to reinforce and refine the school's systems
Align practices and processes with an equity mission that is embedded in a vision
Design and implement formal and informal public relations plan and messaging to support organizational assets
Areas of strength:
Align practices and processes with an equity mission that is embedded in a vision
Areas of challenge:
Engage others in continuous review of the core values and vision as evidenced in the school’s systems
Establish routine processes for dialogue to reinforce and refine the school's systems
Design and implement formal and informal public relations plan and messaging to support organizational assets
Next steps and action plan:
5.3.2 INFORMATION FLOW
Encourage others to look for fluctuating and conflicting information that contributes to or detracts from a dynamic and productive organization, including messaging, public relations, and advocacy
Utilize formal and informal processes that support discussions across the organization and lead to the possibility of cultivating new levels of understanding
Use regular exchanges and dialogue to support staff contributions, involvement, and generation of new information
Areas of strength:
Use regular exchanges and dialogue to support staff contributions, involvement, and generation of new information
Areas of challenge:
Encourage others to look for fluctuating and conflicting information that contributes to or detracts from a dynamic and productive organization, including messaging, public relations, and advocacy
Utilize formal and informal processes that support discussions across the organization and lead to the possibility of cultivating new levels of understanding
Next steps and action plan:
5.3.3 ORGANIZATIONAL BALANCE
Balance day to day tasks and urgent needs with progress toward important and long-term goals
Identify and determine how to respectfully engage the complex network of constituents who contribute to the organization
Create processes that routinely honor and celebrate how diversity benefits the organization
Strengthen individual and collective management skills by strategically supporting constituents to clarify individual and collective work, navigate systems, and collaborate to attain goals
Areas of strength:
Balance day to day tasks and urgent needs with progress toward important and long-term goals
Identify and determine how to respectfully engage the complex network of constituents who contribute to the organization
Areas of challenge:
Create processes that routinely honor and celebrate how diversity benefits the organization
Strengthen individual and collective management skills by strategically supporting constituents to clarify individual and collective work, navigate systems, and collaborate to attain goals
Next steps and action plan: