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      • Dr. Cynthia Elsberry
      • Dr. Faron Hollinger
      • Shawn Nutting, CETL
      • Franklin Schargel
      • Jim Williams
  • Our Services
  • Five Critical Leadership Practices: The Secret to High-Performing Schools
  • Five Critical Practices of Principals Who Improve Student Learning
    • 1. Focus on the Direction
    • 2. Build a Powerful Organization
    • 3. Ensure Student Focused Vision and Action
    • 4. Give Life to Data
    • 5. Lead Learning
  • Resources
    • Five Critical Practices School or District Inventory
    • Five Critical Practices Correlation with Alabama Plan 2020
    • Five Critical Practices Correlation
    • Five Critical Practices Research Base
    • Comprehensive Recruitment and Selection Guide
    • Principal Recruitment and Selection Kit
  • Links
    • Radio Interview
  • Selected Publications
    • The Recruitment and Selection of Principals Who Improve Student Learning
    • The Principal as Chief Learning Officer: Developing Teacher Leaders
  • Alabama Superintendents' Transformational Leadership Academy
    • Current TLA Members and Partners
    • Meetings
  • Hoover Assistant Principal Academy Resources
  • Mobile Workshop - Five Critical Leadership Practices
  • Middle Grades Leadership Academy
    • Critical Practice 1 >
      • Critical Practice 1 Resources
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    • Critical Practice 2
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3.        Ensure student-focused vision and action.

3.1.      Creating a vision and a culture that focus on student learning and student needs

  • Collaborating with faculty and staff to craft a student-centered vision for the school and students
  • Providing opportunities for faculty and staff to recalibrate and ensure that the focus of the work is learning for all students
  • Facilitating faculty and staff collaboration in developing processes that support student learning
  • Supporting faculty and staff in routine peer and self-monitoring of practices that maintain a student learning focus

3.2.      Providing instructional leadership


  • Modeling and coordinating continuous learning experiences for faculty and staff that enhance learning for all
  • Facilitating collegial conversations regarding challenging, attainable learning experiences
  • Modeling and encouraging mutual respect among all stakeholders and high expectations for all students
  • Ensuring growth in the collective knowledge and application of best teaching practices that result in high levels of learning

3.3.      Leading the development of guidelines and procedures for classrooms


  • Collaborating with faculty and staff to design standards-based classrooms that address the variety of student needs
  • Leading faculty and staff in developing active, experiential classroom learning opportunities for students
  • Engaging faculty and staff in an ongoing analysis and identification of the essential skills and knowledge students must learn for the year
  • Creating opportunities for faculty to collaborate on lessons, units, and assessments to ensure meeting essential standards
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