Course #: EDLPS 519

Dates and Times:

Cohort 1 and 2

Overview:

Ensuring equity and excellence for all students poses an enormous leadership challenge for all school leaders. The ability to “keep the flame alive” in the face of difficult social, political, cultural, and economic problems is fundamental for sustaining the kind of leadership schools need today. This course focuses on sustaining that passion by further developing the leadership capacity (knowledge, skills, tools, values, and will) of practicing principals and assistant principals, and rekindling the leadership spirit and desire necessary to sustain the pursuit of equity and social justice for all students.

Objectives:

1) Participants will develop a deeper understanding of the organizational, political and social context of their current school and school district.

2) Participants will identify gaps between their own leadership values of equity and excellence for all and the reality they face within their current school and school district context.

3) Participants will develop a deeper understanding of the instructional and systems leadership necessary to close the gap between the values they hold as leaders and the reality they face.

4) Participants will develop a conceptual framework for leading and managing an aggressive agenda of equity and excellence for all within their current school and school district context.

5) Participants, through continued deep reflection and peer support, examine and will adjust their instructional and organizational leadership strategies.

6) Participants will develop a deeper understanding of their leadership role in the improvement of teaching and learning in literacy and mathematics.

7) Participants, through the program structure and support, will leave the program undaunted by the daunting leadership challenge they face; and, embrace this leadership challenge with a renewed passion, energy and commitment.

8) Participants will take instructional and organizational leadership action to advance
their agenda of equity and excellence for all students.

Cohort I and II Meeting Times (Participants in 2005-2006 Leadership Program)

Six full day sessions (9 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.) plus four coaching days per cadre. All sessions will be held in the Seattle School district. Each cadre will consist of seven leaders.

Session Dates:

Wednesday, October 4, 2006
Thursday, November 30, 2006
Thursday, January 4, 2007
Thursday, February 1, 2007
Friday, March 30, 2007
Tuesday, April 3, 2007

Coaching Dates:

Requirements:

The course is credit/no credit. The requirements for credit include: active participation in all leadership content seminars; reading assigned articles; written response to the four prompts provided, in which participants reflect upon their learning during each seminar.

To Register:

Go to the Leadership registration page and pick a Cohort (Cohort 1 for returning administrators; Cohort 2 for new administrators), fill out the Registration Information and click on Submit.

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