The Principal’s Role in Systemic Change for

Reading

Commitment

Demonstrate Your Commitment to the Systemic Change in Reading Training

Appoint someone to take your place at school on training days. Choose someone who can handle any emergency without you.Attend every meeting from beginning to end. Be a model for your team. Do not schedule other activities on training days.

The Principal’s Role in Systemic Change for

Reading

Collaboration

Collaborative Partner to the Shared Vision

From your Systemic Change Process Cycle

1. Shared vision.Improve reading

achievement for all students but especially

for students with disabilities.

Collaborative Partner of the

Implementation Team

  

Engage teachers, parents, and students in making the vision a realityActively participate in the instructional change processEncourage everyone in making the vision a realityPromote and support the vision every day

Collaborative Partner of the Implementation TeamLearn and understand the new

methods of instructional strategies and interventions for reading that will impact all of your students, but especially

those students with disabilities.

Support

The Principal’s Role in Systemic Change for

Reading

Support the Implementation

Team

Allocate uninterrupted time to meetEnsure all staff attend professional development activitiesProvide resources/materials for implementationRoutinely visit classrooms to observe implementationEncourage collaborative conversation regarding new reading instructional methods, strategies, and techniques for student progress.

Create and Support Staff Collaborations

Create collaborations between special education and general education staff that impact every student’s reading success.

Allow time for all teachers to routinely meet to evaluate data and monitor student progress in reading.

Develop data-driven decision meetings to meet the specific needs of every student.

Work with your staff to solidify and praise these efforts.

Involve Your Staff and Parents in Supporting Your Systemic Change

Actively involve your parents in the systemic change process.

Keep them informed about their children’s progress and interventions used to increase specific reading skills.

Make the data, data-driven decisions, and instructional strategies the basis of academic discussions and conferences centered

around all students’ achievement in reading.Give them specific strategies to help their children at home.

Care

The Principal’s Role in Systemic Change for

Reading

Involve Your Students in Your Systemic

ChangeShow the students you are interested

in their reading skills.Be visible in the classrooms so the

students feel your support.Make sure all students are receiving

the support they need.Let the students know you, the staff, and their

parents are helping them reach success in reading!

…effective instructional leaders

do for teachers what effective teachers

do for students!

To make a difference in improving the reading

achievement of all students…