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Enhancing Collaboration for Effective Illinois School Leadership Development

This report discusses the collaborative efforts of key educational leaders in Illinois aimed at preparing future school leaders. It outlines small group discussions, ideal program visions for five years ahead, and the importance of partnerships between universities and school districts. Key themes include addressing challenges in candidate selection, promoting collaboration through technology, and ensuring mission-driven changes. Strategies for improving recruitment and increasing professionalism in educational roles are explored, along with necessary supports, ethical considerations, and the need for clearer communication of standards in admissions.

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Enhancing Collaboration for Effective Illinois School Leadership Development

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  1. Report: Partnership & Selection Group Working Together to Prepare Illinois School Leaders August 6, 2008 Small-group discussion

  2. Participants • St. Xavier: Sheila Wright & Beverly Gulley • Dominican: Jim Harrington • Benedictine: LaineTadlock • Western Illinois: Bonnie Smith-Scripps • Eastern Illinois: John Dively • Bradley: Jenny Tripses • IERC: Kathleen Brown

  3. Brainstorming Activity • Five years out, what would your program look like? • Ideal: PDS where everyone focuses on students • New kinds of collaborations using technology • P20 Collaborations that effectively manages mandates that serve students • More cohorts • Program integrity: regardless of size. • Mission-driven

  4. Positive Changes from Recommendations • Partnerships with districts for strategic recruitment • We need to communicate standards for admissions. • Articulate the P20 connections. • Increased sense of professionalism in our field. • Outcome of collaboration is to create greater clarity and integrity in our roles.

  5. Challenges & Barriers • Time & Resources to promote collaboration • Institutional and Professional Commitment • Costs of partnerships for higher education • Tenure process does not support now. • The current certification test does not inform programs for improvement.

  6. Partnerships • What’s out there? What is effective? • Examples: partnering for search committees, joint faculty appointments, etc. • Mentoring relationships • Co-teaching • Advisory Boards (basic) • ROE’s have resources & they collaborate on professional development.

  7. Candidate Selection Process • Tensions and ethical issues in either allowing districts to select candidates or allowing University to select candidates who do not get positions. • Reproduction of the status quo. • Joint process or agreed-upon criteria • Best selection = motivation on part of student (market-based)

  8. Supports Needed for Success • Models of successful collaborations • Time to devote to this work • Leverage to change university culture • Leverage to change P12 culture

  9. Takeaway • Have we correctly identified and defined the “problem”? • This will dictate the solutions we develop! • Baseline data needed • Methodological limitations of “snapshot” standardized tests as measure of outcomes

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