Standard 10: School Improvement

Effective educational leaders act as agents of continuous improvement to promote each student’s academic success and well-being.

Performance Indicators:

• A) Seek to make school more effective for each student, teachers and staff, families, and the community.

• B) Use methods of continuous improvement to achieve the vision, fulfill the mission, and promote the core values of the school..

• C) Prepare the school and the community for improvement, promoting readiness, an imperative for improvement, instilling mutual commitment and accountability, and developing the knowledge, skills, and motivation to succeed in improvement

• D) Engage others in an ongoing process of evidence-based inquiry, learning, strategic goal setting, planning, implementation, and evaluation for continuous school and classroom improvement

• E) Employ situationally-appropriate strategies for improvement, including transformational and incremental, adaptive approaches and attention to different phases of implementation..

• F) Assess and develop the capacity of staff to assess the value and applicability of emerging educational trends and the findings of research for the school and its improvement.

• G) Develop technically appropriate systems of data collection, management, analysis, and use, connecting as needed to the district office and external partners for support in planning, implementation, monitoring, feedback, and evaluation.

• H) Adopt a systems perspective and promote coherence among improvement efforts and all aspects of school organization, programs, and services.

• I) Manage uncertainty, risk, competing initiatives, and politics of change with courage and perseverance, providing support and encouragement, and openly communicating the need for, a process for, and outcomes of improvement effort

• J) Develop and promote leadership among teachers and staff for inquiry, experimentation and innovation, and initiating and implementing improvement

PSEL 10 Summary:

This standard is a culmination of all of the other nine standards because all of this is geared towards school improvement. Effective leaders understand that school improvement is the ultimate goal of educational leadership and operate with that concept always in the forefront. My artifacts related to school improvement include minutes from a School Council Meeting (10A), data collection on Rising 8th-graders for Algebra I course placements (10G), leadership team evaluations for our school improvement plan (10D), and a writing assignment analyzing a leadership failure and recommendations for improvement (10E).

PSEL 10 Artifacts