Prior to beginning work on this discussion forum, please read Chapter 1 from the course

text, Legal Rights of School Leaders, Teachers and Students, and read ISLLC 2015: Model Policy

Standards for Educational Leaders and Radical Recentering: Equity in Educational

Leadership Standards.

 

Introduction

After reading the required text for this week, focus on the six standards for school

leadership developed by the Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium (ISLLC). For

this discussion, you will focus on one standard for which you will provide your peers with

information, insight, and resources. Be sure to review and collect the resources from your

peers’ responses also as you will need this information for the summative assignment in

Week 6. Please refer to the following chart to identify which standard you will be

reporting on for this discussion. For example, Jane Doe would be assigned Standard 1.

 

Assignment Standards

Student’s

Last Name Standards

Begins with

A–D 

 

Standard 1: An education leader promotes the success of every student by

facilitating the development, articulation, implementation, and stewardship

of a vision of learning that is shared and supported by all stakeholders.

 

Begins with

E–H

 

Standard 2: An education leader promotes the success of every student by

advocating, nurturing, and sustaining a school culture and instructional

program conducive to student learning and staff professional growth.

 

Begins with

I–L

 

Standard 3: An education leader promotes the success of every student by

ensuring management of the organization, operations, and resources for a

safe, efficient, and effective learning environment.

 

Begins with

M–P

 

Standard 4: An education leader promotes the success of every student by

collaborating with faculty and community members, responding to diverse

community interests and needs, and mobilizing community resources.

 

Begins with

Q–T

 

Standard 5: An education leader promotes the success of every student by

acting with integrity, fairness, and in an ethical manner.

 

Begins with

U–Z Standard 6: An education leader promotes the success of every student by

understanding, responding to, and influencing the political, social, economic,

 

legal, and cultural context.

 

Note: Resources may be from annual conferences, websites, leaders in the field, peer-

reviewed journal articles, blogs, etcetera, that support the assigned standard. Through

this collaborative effort, you will be able to add resources from multiple perspectives that

you can later include in your final assignment. Be sure to include any relevant information

including the full APA reference entry and a brief description of how the resource

supports leaders or administrators described in the standard.

 

Write 

Referring to your assigned standard in your discussion post, respond to each of the

following:

 List one or two overarching themes embedded in the standard you are

assigned.

 Suggest one professional resource. The resource should be relevant to the early

childhood field as well as provide information that ensures that education

leaders are equipped with the vital knowledge, skills, and dispositions to

transform our schools into places that empower students to take ownership of

their learning, emphasize the learning content and apply knowledge to real-

world problems, and value the differences each student brings to the classroom

(Council of Chief State School Officers, 2015).

 Assess your knowledge of the ISLLC conceptual framework and standards

according to your personal leadership experience and goals. What areas are

your strengths? Do you have any concerns about the standards or the

framework or goals for further development in this area?