chris morgan 03/23/2012 christopher.morgan@pearson.com

Chris Morgan03/23/2012

christopher.morgan@pearson.com

“Nothing is more important. There’s no such thing as a high-performing school without a great principal….You simply can’t overstate their importance in driving student achievement, in attracting and retaining great talent to the school.”

— Arne Duncan Principal Magazine 2010

“…school leadership has a statistically significant relationship with student achievement.”

— Robert Marzano School Leadership that Works 2005

Principal Compass is a comprehensive professional development system that builds the competencies of effective school leadership ̶ connecting what happens in the principal’s office to success in the classroom.

Offers a powerful, integrated and scalable tool for differentiated leadership training

Delivers constructive assessment and coaching

Provides customizable professional growth tools and continuous leadership support

How it Works

Analyzes leadershipstyle and

training needs

Targets support through

online professionaldevelopment,

coaching and team development

Monitors progressand provides

recommendationsfor additional

support

How it Works – The Technology

Allows school leaders to perform ongoing self-analysis and the software automatically recommends rich leadership training content.

How it Works – The Technology

The software provides ongoing diagnostics to track leadership progress based on research-based frameworks.

Analyzes Leadership Style and Training Needs

“ Our research team has dedicated years to identifying that critical set of skills and behaviors that makes a principal an exceptional leader. Now, with Principal Compass™...we have created a partnership that can ultimately benefit millions of principals, teachers and students across the country.”

—Dr. Robert J. Marzano

Marzano’s School

Administrator Growth

Framework

WPI and the Leadership

Competencies

Local Frameworks

and Standards

The leadership modules are aligned to the 5 Domains and 24 Elements ofDr. Robert J. Marzano’s framework

• A data-driven focus on student achievement

• Continuous improvement of instruction

• A guaranteed and viable curriculum

• Cooperation and collaboration, and

• School climate

Analyzes Leadership Style and Training Needs

Marzano’s School

Administrator Growth

Framework

WPI and the Leadership

Competencies

Local Frameworks

and Standards

Local Frameworks

and Standards

WPI and the Leadership

Competencies

Marzano’s School

Administrator Growth

Framework

Analyzes Leadership Style and Training Needs

WPI and the Leadership

Competencies

Established in 1979, Lyle Kirtman’s Future Management Systems (FMS) has more than twenty-five years experience working with public and private educational systems, non-profit organizations, government agencies and corporations in the areas of leadership development, strategic planning, high- and performance team building.

Local Frameworks

and Standards

WPI and the Leadership

Competencies

Marzano’s School

Administrator Growth

Framework

Pearson’s Workplace Personality Inventory (WPI)

Analyzes Leadership Style and Training Needs

WPI and the Leadership

Competencies

+Kirtman’s Leadership Competencies

for High Performing Leaders

Highly Performing LeadersChallenges status quo

Local Frameworks

and Standards

WPI and the Leadership

Competencies

Marzano’s School

Administrator Growth

Framework

Analyzes Leadership Style and Training Needs

WPI and the Leadership

Competencies

The 7 Leadership Competencies for High Performing Leaders are:

● Challenges status quo● Builds trust through clear communication

and expectations● Creates a commonly owned plan for

success● Focuses on team over self● Has a high sense of urgency for change

and sustainable results● Commitment to continuous improvement● Builds external networks / partnerships

The Compass Platform also enables districts and schools to load local frameworks and align them to the leadership modules or local content.

Analyzes Leadership Style and Training Needs

Local Frameworks

and Standards

WPI and the Leadership

Competencies

Marzano’s School

Administrator Growth

Framework

WPI and the Leadership

Competencies

Each online leadership module includes:

• Introductory, stage setting videos with real principals

• Applications for immediate relevance to the work in the building

• Animated PowerPoint with illustrated overviews

• Extended readings for each topic

• Built-in “Check for Understanding”

• Enrichment videos for further support

• Quick “Tips and Tools”

Targeted Support

Targeted Support

Initial leadership Topics include:

• Building a school-wide instructional improvement plan

• Understanding the fundamentals of a data-driven culture

• Conducting formative observation and providing effective feedback

• Developing knowledge of the “art and science” of teaching

• Determine readiness for the Common Core and beginning to close the gaps

• Developing a shared mission and vision that focuses on instruction

• Developing high-performing teams

• Building rapport to open doors to new learning and improved teaching performance

• Creating a school climate conducive to learning

• Developing the competencies of effective principal leadership

Targeted Support

Topics

Accountability

Assessments

Classroom Management

Common Core ELA

Common Core Mathematics

Curriculum Planning

Differentiation

Early Childhood

Effective Use of Technology

English Language Arts

English Language Learners

Families and Communities

Instructional Strategies

Mathematics

Professional Learning Communities

Dr. Robert Marzano

Rick Stiggins

Jon Saphier

Grant Wiggins, Ed.D.

ASCD

Johns Hopkins University

Battelle for Kids

Dr. Tim Shanahan

Margo Gottlieb, Ph.D.

Dr. Jeffrey Arnett, PhD.

Phil Daro

Donna Ogle, Ed.D

Charles Temple, Ph.D.

Charles Temple, Ph.D.

Mary Ellen Vogt, EdD.

Lily Wong-Fillimore, PhD.

Programs

Assessment Training Institute

A+RISE

enVisionMath

Good Habits Great Readers

Interactive Science

Literacy Navigator

Math Navigator

Miller and Levine Biology

MySidewalks

MyWorld Geography

Opening the World of Learning

Prentice Hall Literature

Prentice Hall Math

Reading Street

SIOP

Skillful Teacher

In addition, over 3000 videos, tutorials and documents on teacher practice are available to administrators.

Authors/Partners

Monitors Progress

School leaders can continue to use the technology and content to self-assess and improve.

How it Works

Analyzes leadershipstyle and

training needs

Targets support through

online professionaldevelopment,

coaching and team development

Monitors progressand provides

recommendationsfor additional

support

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