WVUSD: 2014-2015 Year-End Results
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Leadership Development
Challenges
Personnel – right seat on the bus
Funding resources
Minimize ego impact
Finding extra time for staff development
New Administration at Sites/Departments
Leadership Opportunities for Up and Coming Leaders
Grants to Fund Staff Development
Empower Leaders at All Levels
o Office Manager, Instructional Aide
o Grade Level Leader
PIVOT (hit and miss)
Time/common time
Opportunities for classified employees at Mini University
Expand ‘car wash’ time
Being off-site is difficult for site adm and teacher leaders
Master calendar to coordinate when teachers will be off site
Build the future but utilize our history/historians
Time*
Narrowing the focus - instructional focus (2-3 items)
Creating schedules that allow share time
Not overwhelming those “leaders” always called upon – “drying the well”
Diversity of site leaders (same people called upon to lead)
Proactive vs. reactive
Administrative assistant/AP at elementary schools (assistance with IEPs)
PD/Cognitive coaching (Deans, GLCs, SSRAs)
Instructional Dean responsibilities impacts their own classroom instruction
Marketing opportunities to staff
Subs (especially long term) need CCSS training
Balance site responsibilities with time for PD
Time for collaboration
Restoration of Instructional Dean position, 3rd SSRA (MS)
More tech coaches – one per site?
Pulling same teachers out for multiple initiatives = burnout
Multiple events scheduled at same time
Fulltime counselors at elementary
Assistant Principal at elementary site
Greater coordination of events, PD, trainings so we are not pulling staff at the
same time and using same personnel
Behavioral Specialists to guide decisions on students at risk behaviorally
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