ESC Region 12 offers a variety of networking
and training opportunities for campus leaders including:
Administrators’ Institute
for School Improvement:
The Administrators’ Institute
for School Improvement strives to provide information
and support to campus administrators. Each of these six
half-day sessions offered throughout the year will focus
on critical issues facing campus administrators on a
daily basis. From creating a high performance learning
culture to using data to effect change to leading with
the heart, these sessions are designed to meet the needs
of principals and assistant principals from across the
region.
Administrators’ Institute
for School Improvement Training Opportunities
Campus Planning:
This session provides the most up-to-date information to assist campus teams
in constructing a plan that not only meets state and federal requirements,
but creates a plan that serves as a daily blueprint for success. Each area
of the plan will be discussed in detail including how to write clearly stated
actions, what can be done to meet state and federal guidelines, and how everything
works together to improve student achievement. In addition to reviewing well-written
sample plans, you will learn how the use of technology can make creating your
campus plan easier and more efficient.
Campus Planning Training Opportunities

Instructional Leadership Development
(ILD):
Leaders will learn to model, encourage, and create
conditions in the school culture that are:
- Learner Centered
Views
all members of the learning community as life-long,
successful learners.
- Based on High Expectations
Expects
all staff to work to ensure a safe, respectful, inclusive,
risk-taking and academically rich environment in which
all stakeholders accept accountability for the success
of all students.
- Collaborative
Views teamwork,
collegiality and sense of community as necessary for
maximizing the goal of success for all.
- Based
on Continuous Improvement
Views continuous planning,
monitoring, evaluation and assessment of progress as
essential to the goal of continuous and ever-improving
success for all.
Instructional Leadership Development
(ILD) Training Opportunities

Professional Development and Appraisal
System (PDAS):
PDAS remains in place as the State's approved instrument
for appraising its teachers and identifying areas that
would benefit from staff development. PDAS includes
51 criteria within eight domains reflecting the Proficiencies
for Learner-Centered Instruction adopted in 1997 by
the State Board for Educator Certification (SBEC).
The domains are:
1. Active, Successful Student Participation
in the Learning Process
2. Learner-centered Instruction
3. Evaluation and feedback on Student Progress
4.
Management of Student Discipline, Instructional Strategies,
Time/Materials
5. Professional Communication
6. Professional
Development
7. Compliance with Policies, Operating
Procedures and Requirements
8. Improvement of All
Students' Academic Performance
Included in the appraisal system are
Instructional Leadership Development (ILD) and Administrator
Appraisal.
PDAS requires that new teachers and
teachers new to a district receive an orientation.
In addition, the PDAS Teacher Manual is to be given
to ALL teachers
Professional Development and Appraisal
System (PDAS) Training Opportunities

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