Instructional Leadership
Standard 2: An education leader promotes the success of every student by advocating, nurturing and sustaining a school culture and instructional program conducive to student learning and staff professional growth.
Functions:
Functions:
- Nurture and sustain a culture of collaboration, trust, learning, and high expectations
- Create a comprehensive, rigorous, and coherent curricular program
- Create a personalized and motivating learning environment for students
- Supervise instruction
- Develop assessment and accountability systems to monitor student progress
- Develop the instructional and leadership capacity of staff
- Maximize time spent on quality instruction
- Promote the use of the most effective and appropriate technologies to support teaching and learning
- Monitor and evaluate the impact of the instructional program
My Instructional Leadership Philosophy
Ultimately a principal is responsible for students learning. By identifying that teachers are the most effective tool for increasing student learning an effective school leader is able to focus on staff development that is both teacher focused and often faculty lead. Although administrators must be instructional leaders, they also need to possess the interpersonal skills necessary to identify and develop teacher leaders who can model and instruct other teachers on sound instructional strategies. As a leader of a school one must stay current with research, and also create a culture of learning that embrace best practice in the classroom, through PLCs, action research, meaningful PD that is faculty lead, and the inclusion of the students and community members in outreach and intervention programs. An educational leader must have many channels through which he or she works in order to foster a collegial and collaborative school environment. An importance on building relationships with students and upholding high academic standards are also necessary elements for the success of all students.