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You’ve been promoted to the role of school leader after being a great teacher or AP/coach. Your school community is relying on you to improve student outcomes. And you know you can do it.
However, you continue to feel like you’re drinking from a fire hose. You’re unsure about your instructional strategy. You struggle to execute the plans that you create with your team. And ultimately, you are beginning to doubt your ability to lead effectively.
It's not you; it's the role. Excel Learning can help.
A few questions and thoughts that may come to mind are:
Here’s where Excel Learning comes in…
How can I lead my school to results if my curriculum is weak and our teachers are untrained?
How can I be expected to develop my team when I have to respond to a million other things every day?
How do I lead my team to effectively create strategic plans, monitor progress, and make adjustments to improve student learning?
How do I get my entire team to agree on one problem and execute a coherent instructional strategy?
Who Its For:
Effective school leaders and the teams they lead embrace specific mindsets and practices that improve their performance over time. Excel Learning provides ongoing professional learning to support the accelerated development of these mindsets, and practices, which increase collaboration, clarity, and coherence necessary for strong instruction.
Instructional Leadership Development for School Improvement
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3 Service Offerings:
New or novice school leaders and leadership teams that want to accelerate their development to improve student outcomes. All participants must be willing to commit to intense personal and professional growth for >10-months.
BENEFITS:
- Improved clarity and capacity for effective instructional coaching
- Clear shared vision and strategy for academics and instruction
- Improved ability to lead effective team meetings and 1:1 meetings
- Increased Instructional Leadership Capacity of School Leader and their APs / coaches.
- Improved collaboration among the leadership team
- Increased collaboration between coaches and teachers
- Improved data literacy skills
- Improved overall academic growth from students
- Improved implementation of Data-Driven Instructional practices
- Improved understanding of academic progress monitoring
- Deeper self-awareness and reflective skills
- Improved personal organization & planning skills
- Deepened self-confidence and trust of self
- Increased ability to hold complexity and process through ambiguity
What is Offered:
- 2-4 day Instructional Leadership Bootcamp for Readiness
- 10 months of 1:1 Leadership Coaching (Weekly for School Leaders; Bi-weekly for APs/coaches)
- Quarterly on-site implementation Support (>3 days per site)
- Beginning of the year “Lift-off” On-Site PD & Support (3 Days)
- 6 Full-Day Instructional Leadership Academic Strategy Workshops (optional)
- Customized Excel Learning Instructional Leadership Resources, including (but not limited to)…
- Yearly High-Impact Practices GAANT Chart
- Academic Strategies Pyramid
- 1:1 Coaching Meeting Templates
- Coaching Action Steps Trackers
- Foundations of Success Checklists
- Instructional Strategy Cascading Actions Templates
Invest In School Leaders & APs
Who Its For:
A systems-based collaborative leadership approach to diagnose the current state of teaching and learning. Use the evidence to develop an instructional improvement strategy, and align on next steps.
Instructional Rounds
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School leadership teams and district leadership teams who :
What You Can Expect:
- Enhanced collaboration across and among leadership team members
- Enhanced collaboration between leadership and teachers
- Shared diagnoses of the current state of instruction
- A clear instructional improvement strategy with priorities and actions
- Shared vision of high-quality teaching and learning
What is Offered:
- Exploration & Planning Call
- “Liftoff” Virtual Workshops to Build Capacity for Instructional Rounds
- How to Take Observation Notes (literal notes)
- How to Choose a Problem of Practice
- The Inference Ladder
Invest in Instruction
- Struggle with collaboration, lack a shared understanding of the current state of teaching and learning, and therefore, struggle to create and follow through with a robust instructional strategy.
- Believe that their leadership, for better or worse, directly impacts student learning outcomes
- Are willing to investigate the impact of their current leadership and commit to shifting practices to improve student learning
- Are willing to work hand in hand with teachers and value their input
Who Its not For:
- Leadership teams who are unwilling to investigate the impact of their current leadership on classrooms
- Leadership teams who are unwilling to shift practices based on evidence from classroom observations
- Leadership teams who are unwilling to collaborate with teachers.
*The Instructional Rounds process can include up to 15 participants total from the school and district office.
- “Instructional Rounds in Education” Book
- Day-long Instructional Round & Debrief Experience (On-site)*
- Follow-up of Findings & Next Steps
- Strategic Planning Session (optional)
Who Its For:
This ~40-hour workshop series bridges the understanding of instructional expectations between the leadership team and teachers. By the end of the 5-day, all participants develop a shared knowledge of expectations of essential elements of excellent instruction. This service is best scheduled to begin in the fall and continue throughout the year. It includes optional on-site walkthroughs & implementation support.
Excellence in Instruction Workshop PD Series for Teachers
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What You Can Expect:
- Clear, common foundational set of beliefs and expectations for:
What is Offered:
- Lesson Planning & Internalization: Clarity & Alignment
- Lesson Planning & Internalization: Gradual Release
- Data-Driven Instruction; Sorting Student Work & Reteaching
- Assessment Analysis & Action Planning
- Standard Deconstruction & Unit Planning
- Standard-Aligned Assessment Creation
Invest in Teachers
SCHOOLS:
TEACHERS WHO:
- With high variability across teachers in the beliefs and expectations of excellent teaching.
- Who have many new or novice teachers who struggle to teach rigorous lessons that are accessible to all students
- That strive to establish a shared language, mindset and core set of instructional practices that lead to improve student learning outcomes
- Are willing to implement new practices
- Desire to improve their professional practice
- Are open to investigating the impact of their instruction on students
- instruction across all instructional personnel
- Academic rigor
- Shared language for principles and practices of excellent instruction
- Shared expectations for effective lesson preparation and planning
- Shifts in understanding of academic rigor
- Alignment in understanding of how to create rigorous assessment
- Deepened shared understanding for Data-Driven Instruction
- Increased collaboration across teachers
Potential Sessions include:
Transformative outcomes begin with transformative training and support.
Schedule a free consultation to see how your school can increase its instructional capacity today.
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