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New Jersey Professional Development Initiative for School Leaders

STEP ONE : Getting Focused: Assessing your Professional Development Needs, Readiness, and Commitment
This step allows you to learn more about the leadership standards by (i) standards-based practice in the context of an imaginary scenario, (ii) testing your knowledge of the New Jersey Professional Standards for School Leaders (NJPSSL), and (iii) developing your own school-based issue in a standards-based framework.

Overview of Phase I Steps

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SELF-ASSESSMENT
* Check yourself against standards using either
a) web-based format (NOTE: make sure javascript is enabled!): Standard One, Standard Two, Standard Three, Standard Four, Standard Five, Standard Six, or
b) Excel file: Test-yourself
* Sample responses from NJASA: Standard One

STANDARDS RESOURCES
NJPSSL, ISLLC (and ISLLC document in PDF).

Linking Teacher Evaluation and Student Learning
by Pamela D. Tucker and James H. Stronge

Tucker and Stronge explore a variety of ways to include measures of student achievement in teacher evaluations, so that teachers can better focus efforts to improve their practice.

Role of the School Leader
Revised July 2003
By Larry Lashway

See especially:
Defining School Leadership
Providing Focused Instructional Leadership
Leading Change

Designing the School Leader's Portfolio by Mary Dietz
Reviewed by Brian L. Benzel

Uses a solid theoretical base to create a useful how-to manual.

Effective Communication and the School Leader

Brief article with references.

Air War College Center for Strategic Leadership Studies and Development

See Leadership Research and other excellent sections of this Web site.