Instructional Leadership Workshop

A DataWORKS researcher along with the school’s leadership team visit classrooms to measure Time on Task and to collect student work for analysis

What makes the Instructional Leadership Workshop important?
Instructional leadership is absolutely necessary if school reform efforts are going to improve student achievement. Instructional Leadership is not managing and improving the school’s buildings. Instructional Leadership is managing and improving the school’s instructional program-what goes on inside the classroom. Effective instructional leaders have a career-long relentless focus on improving how students are taught. Schools and districts lacking instructional leadership consistently fail to improve classroom instruction essentially preventing students from learning more. Federal AYP goals require schools to continually improve student achievement. To continually improve student achievement, schools need to continually improve the effectiveness and efficiency of their school’s instructional program.

What will the Instructional Leadership Workshop attendees learn?
The Instructional Leadership Workshop is an all day (one to two day) staff development that trains administrators in the measuring, monitoring, and improvement of the four components of classroom productivity:

1. Time on Task
2. Alignment to Standards
3. Breadth of Standards
4. Instructional Effectiveness

The workshop includes developing and writing school-wide achievement goals to measure students (outputs) and process goals to measure teaching (inputs). The approach is based on the premise of improving inputs (instruction) to produce better outputs (student achievement). The workshop focuses on the leader’s role in improving achievement by improving instructional processes: measure, monitor . . . make better.