Summer Institute

July 25-26, 2016 Los Alamitos  |  August 4-5, 2016 Oakland

This 2-day institute guides participants in designing a distributed leadership school improvement process that will assist them in shaping a collaborative culture of teaching and learning. Led by WestEd transformational leadership coaches, a cadre of experienced turnaround administrators, the institute is designed to enable schools and districts to build a deep reservoir of leadership capacity that supports the goal of equity through mutual accountability and a shared commitment to meeting the needs of all students.

The institute focuses on strengthening leadership competencies In four major areas:

• Developing and deploying transformational leaders within a school setting
• Applying distributed leadership models based on mutual accountability that can lead to the success of all learners
• Grounding instructional leadership teams in practices that support equity and high achievement
• Distributing accountability to instructional leadership teams throughout the school to strengthen teaching

Participants will engage in the following collaborative, interactive tasks:

• Unpack how distributed leadership teams build capacity for school improvement
• Strengthen leadership team models by using California Professional Standards for Education Leaders (CPSEL) and Turnaround Leadership Competencies (TLC)
• Develop a site-based plan for implementing a distributed instructional leadership model
• Join a network of administrators and teacher leaders striving to link leadership and equity

WestEd Transformational Leadership Coaching is an innovative model for helping schools and districts build systemic support that both deepens and broadens their leadership capacity. The goal is to ensure that the work of new and emerging leaders reflects national and state professional leadership standards and/or turnaround leader competencies.  As they build this support, schools and districts create shared leadership and mutual accountability for achieving equity and high-level student achievement.