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va-Lead: Programs Addressing ISLLC Standard #1

. . . A SCHOOL ADMINSTRATOR IS AN EDUCATIONAL LEADER WHO PROMOTES THE SUCCESS OF ALL STUDENTS BY FACILITATING THE DEVELOPMENT, ARTICULATION, IMPLEMENTATION, AND STEWARDSHIP OF A VISION OF LEARNING THAT IS SHARED AND SUPPORTED BY THE SCHOOL COMMUNITY.

<< ISLLC Standards

  1. Protocols for Using Data 101 | Successline Inc. (DA)

  2. Data Coaches Certification Training | Successline Inc. (DA)

  3. SOL Tracker Basic Training | Successline Inc. (DA)

  4. SOL Tracker Advanced Training | Successline Inc. (DA)

  5. Designing and Using High-Quality Rubrics | Successline Inc.

  6. Designing and Using High-Quality Paper-and-Pencil Assessments | Successline Inc. (DA)

  7. Instructional Strategies for High Student Achievement | Successline Inc. (III)

  8. Strategies Online: VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT | Successline Inc. (III)

  9. Strategies Online: QUESTIONING | Successline Inc. (III)

  10. Strategies Online: COMPARE AND CONTRAST | Successline Inc. (III)

  1. Developmental Financial Leadership in Education (Post Masters Three Hour Online Graduate Course) | Virginia Commonwealth University and Virginia Association of Secondary School Principals (VASSP) (L&M)

  2. Foundations in Mentoring for Clinical Faculty: A Training for Those Who Work With Preservice Teachers | Center for Teacher Leadership, Virginia Commonwealth University, School of Education (C/M)

  3. Mentor Academy Series I: Trainings for Those Who Work with Beginning Teachers | Center for Teacher Leadership, Virginia Commonwealth University, School of Education (C/M)

  4. Metropolitan Educational Training Alliance (META) | Center for Teacher Leadership, Virginia Commonwealth University, School of Education coordinates META (L&M)

  5. National Board Certification Candidate Support Program | Center for Teacher Leadership, Virginia Commonwealth University, School of Education

  1. What You See Can Improve What You Get: Observing and Coaching Teachers to Increase Student Learning | Dr. Anne Meek (C/M)

  1. Instructional Leadership: How're We Doing? | Dr. Anne Meek (III)

  1. How to Handle Test Score News, Good, Bad, or Indifferent | Dr. Anne Meek (L&M)

  2. Leading Communication about Instruction | Dr. Anne Meek (L&M)

  1. A Toolkit of Brain-Compatible Strategies: What Every Principal Needs to Know | Sarah Armstrong, Ed.D. (III)

  2. Powerful Conversations | Sarah Armstrong, Ed.D. (L&M)

  3. Supporting Teachers and Influencing Differentiated Instruction through Effective Professional Development | Dr. Valerie Hastings Gregory (L&M)

  4. SMART Tools for Creating Professional Learning Communities Assessment for Learning | Dr. Valerie Hastings Gregory (L&M)

  5. Assessment FOR Learning | Dr. Valerie Hastings Gregory (DA)

  6. Building Learning Communities to Improve Reading Instruction | Dr. Valerie Hastings Gregory (III) (PD)

  1. Solving Schoolwide Problems at the Root Cause Level | David Burgess, M.P.S. (L&M)

  2. Leading Subordinates to Solve Their Own Problems | David Burgess, M.P.S. (L&M)

  3. The Lessons of Private Enterprise Can Strengthen Your Leadership | Dr. Robert Bender (L&M)

  1. Classrooms That Skyrocket | Delores S. Creech (III)

  1. Using the Read Aloud Accommodation with Students with Disabilities | Thelma Gray Smith (III)

  1. The Relentless Pursuit of Excellence: Helping All Learners to Succeed | Dr. Pam Robbins (L&M)

  1. Internal and External Community Relations | H. Joseph Lowenthal, Jr. (L&M)

  2. They Don't Speak English; They'll Ruin Our Scores! HELP! | Margaret Thiele (III)

  1. Continuing Program Approval for School Leadership Programs | Virginia Department of Education (L&M)

  2. A Model Curriculum for School Leaders | Virginia Department of Education (L&M)

  3. Implementing a Two-Tiered Licensure System for School Leaders | Virginia Department of Education (L&M)

  1. Virginia Initiative for Technology and Administrative Leadership (VITAL) | Virginia Department of Education and a coalition of universities that focus on teacher education: The College of William and Mary, University of Virginia, and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (L&M)

  1. Summer 2007: Virginia Literacy Institute | Virginia Department of Education and several local state and national consultants

  2. Reading Leadership Institute for Middle Schools | Consortium on Reading Excellence (CORE) (III)

  3. Program no longer available.

  4. Colleagues for Success | Virginia Association of Secondary School Principals (VASSP) and the Virginia Department of Education

  1. Strategic Planning: Collaboration and Consensus-Building | Harold S. Wright Jr., Ph.D. (L&M)

  2. "Hot Topics" in K-12 Education: Instructional Improvement | Harold S. Wright Jr., Ph.D. (III)

  1. Differentiated Instruction for the At-Risk Learner | Harold S. Wright Jr., Ph.D. (III)

  1. Teacher Hiring: What Works? What Doesn't? | Teacher Quality Resources, LLC - James Stronge, Ph.D. and Jennifer Hindman, Ph.D. (L&M)

  2. Dealing With Difficult Parents | Douglas J. Fiore, Ph.D. (L&M)

  3. Making the RIGHT Decisions | Douglas J. Fiore, Ph.D. (L&M)

  4. Virginia School Turnaround Specialist Program | The Darden Curry Partnership for Leaders in Education at the University of Virginia

  1. Bringing Focus: School Improvement | Edvantia (formerly AEL) (L&M)

  1. Principal Connections Online: Enhancing Student Achievement through 21st Century Skills and Tools | Edvantia (formerly AEL) (L&M)

  2. Reculturing for Student Success | Edvantia (formerly AEL) (L&M)

  1. Organization: Key to Instructional Leadership | Thought2Action, LLC (L&M)

<< ISLLC Standards

Key: (DA) -Data and Assessment; (A) - Academies;  (D)- Diversity
(III) - Instruction & Instructional Improvement; (C/W) - Conferences/Workshops
(L&M) - Leadership and Management; (PD) - Professional Development; (C/M) - Coaching/Mentoring