Documentation of the ways in which teachers are involved in district/system assessment decisions (meeting minutes, agendas, decision logs, etc.) Implementation of formative assessment practices Other Strand II: Leadership for Learning The district leadership collaboratively creates, communicates, and implements a shared vision; provides organizational support and resources to enhance curriculum, instruction and assessment practices; promotes leadership growth; and establishes and models a climate for learning. Standard 4: Instructional Leadership The district collaborates with stakeholders to develop a vision for academic success and develops policies, practices and systems to identify and support the school instructional leaders in the implementation of that vision. District Indicator Beginning Partial Full Implementation of All Sustained Implementation Implementation Characteristics of this Indicator Implementation Establish and Planning for Some The district collaboratively District policies, Ensure Support AND/OR characteristics of creates, communicates and systems and for Instructional Implementation of this indicator are sustains a shared vision that is practices align with Leadership some of the being embedded into policies and and support characteristics of implemented with practices. sustainability of Guiding Question: this indicator has fidelity; however, The district communicates implementation at begun. one or more through and actions to the school and How does district characteristics are stakeholders that its primary district levels. leadership ensure not fully focus is success for all students. that all leadership implemented. The district ensures that has the OR instructional leaders have the knowledge and All characteristics skills, support and resources skills to attain the of this indicator needed to provide direction shared vision? are and guidance for effective implemented to curriculum, instruction and some degree, but assessment practices at not consistently increasing student throughout the achievement. district. The district strategically and intentionally develops instructional leadership capacity within the system. District leadership works with school leaders to align the district improvement plan with the school improvement plans. District leaders use data to hold themselves and school leaders accountable for progress at all levels. Sample Evidence The following are examples of evidence that could demonstrate implementation of this Indicator. All of these examples do not have to be in place for full implementation; a district may have other evidence that is not listed here.
Documentation of the ways in which teachers are involved in district/system assessment decisions (meeting minutes, agendas, decision logs, etc.) Implementation of formative assessment practices Other Strand II: Leadership for Learning The district leadership collaboratively creates, communicates, and implements a shared vision; provides organizational support and resources to enhance curriculum, instruction and assessment practices; promotes leadership growth; and establishes and models a climate for learning. Standard 4: Instructional Leadership The district collaborates with stakeholders to develop a vision for academic success and develops policies, practices and systems to identify and support the school instructional leaders in the implementation of that vision. District Indicator Beginning Implementation Partial Implementation Full Implementation of All Characteristics of this Indicator Sustained Implementation Establish and Ensure Support for Instructional Leadership Guiding Question: How does district leadership ensure that all leadership has the knowledge and skills to attain the shared vision? Planning for AND/OR Implementation of some of the characteristics of this indicator has begun. Some characteristics of this indicator are being implemented with fidelity; however, one or more characteristics are not fully implemented. OR All characteristics of this indicator are implemented to some degree, but not consistently throughout the district. The district collaboratively creates, communicates and sustains a shared vision that is embedded into policies and practices. The district communicates through and actions to stakeholders that its primary focus is success for all students. The district ensures that instructional leaders have the skills, support and resources needed to provide direction and guidance for effective curriculum, instruction and assessment practices at increasing student achievement. The district strategically and intentionally develops instructional leadership capacity within the system. District leadership works with school leaders to align the district improvement plan with the school improvement plans. District leaders use data to hold themselves and school leaders accountable for progress at all levels. District policies, systems and practices align with and support sustainability of implementation at the school and district levels. Sample Evidence The following are examples of evidence that could demonstrate implementation of this Indicator. All of these examples do not have to be in place for full implementation; a district may have other evidence that is not listed here.
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