LEAD Program (SUPPORT)
LEAD, which stands for Leadership Essentials for Administrator Development, is designed for experienced school district or intermediate unit administrators with five years or more of experience. (superintendents, assistant superintendents, vocational directors, principals, etc.)
The LEAD curriculum was developed based on the work done by the Pennsylvania Leadership Development Center (PLDC) on Chuck Schwahn and Bill Spady’s Total Leaders framework. A Pennsylvania-adapted version of this Total Leaders framework was created to address the three "CORE" Leadership Standards.
Curriculum Design Framework
In order to modify the Total Leaders framework to address the three "CORE" Leadership Standards, a Curriculum Design Committee was formed. This committee had representation from:
- PLDC (PA Leadership Development Center) - Total Leaders Curriculum
- Intermediate Units - curriculum directors
- PDE - Tools for School improvement; High Leverage Practices
- Duquesne University - PLDC
- PDE Project Leaders
- Project Managers
- Regional Site Coordinators
Three sub-committees developed units around each of the three researched-based "CORE" standards and blended the Total Leaders curriculum, Pennsylvania Department of Education High Leverage Practices and the Pennsylvania Department of Education Tools into the units.
PERSONAL LEADERSHIP ASSESSMENT
The LEAD course is divided into three units to address each of the three State Core Standards. Prior to each unit, the participant completes the Personal Leadership Assessment for that unit. Based on this self-assessment, the participant then identifies areas of self improvement needed and prepares an action plan to document improvement efforts. Following completion of the three units, each participant completes a post assessment to determine whether self improvement was successful or whether it needs to be on-going. |
Curriculum
Unit 1 - Thinking and planning strategically (3 days)
- Understanding the Total Leaders Framework
- Strategic Design: A Commitment of Creating a Standards-Based Learning Community
- Strategic Direction: Future Focused
- Personalized Student Success
- Kotter's Model: The Eight Steps of Change
- Creating a Bold and Inspirational Vision
- I Have A Dream
Unit 2 - Standards-Based systems theory and design (2 days)
- Creating a Culture for Standards-Based Learning Communities
- Assessing Your School Culture
- Transforming Your School Culture
- Transforming Yourself as a Leader
- Understanding Standards-Based Cultures
- Creating a Standards-Based Learning Community
- Development of Capacity
Unit 3 - Using Data to inform decision-making in our schools and districts (2 days)
- Introduction, Outcomes and Rationale
- Identifying and Accessing Data
- Root Cause Analysis of Data
- Data in Action
- Creating a Data Retreat
Completion of these three units (7 days) is required to receive 75 Act 48 PIL hours.
Reading As part of the training, participants will be exposed to several quality books on leadership development as assigned readings, and also recommended readings.
Assigned readings
- Total Leaders, Schwahn and Spady (2002)
- Influencer, Patterson, et al (2008)
- Leading at a Higher Level, Blanchard (2007)
- The Heart of Change, Kotter (2002)
- The Six Secrets of Change, Fullan (2008)
Recommended Readings
- Data Analysis for Continuous School Improvement, Bernhardt 2004
- Accountability in Action, Reeves 2000
- School Leaders' Guide to Root Cause Analysis, Preuss 2003
Professional Lending Library
Each region has a lending library comprised of 25 or more books on leadership for lending purposes. Some of the books are also available on loan in an audio format.
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