2009-2010 Comprehensive District Improvement Plan - Jefferson ...

JEFFERSON COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
COMPREHENSIVE DISTRICT IMPROVEMENT PLAN:
STRATEGIC PLAN FOR 2009-10 AND BEYOND
Goal 2: Enhance Effective Leadership
We will provide a leadership development system that recruits, selects, prepares, supports and retains highly
effective principals and leaders. We will equip these leaders with the knowledge and skills to be designers of
high-performance schools, characterized by a positive, collaborative culture where quality teaching maximizes
student learning, growth, and development.
Strategy 3: Enhance the Leadership Capacity of Instructional Leadership Teams
We will support principals and Instructional Leadership Teams (ILTs), as they build communities of practice
within a collaborative school culture where all learners succeed, by extending the Harvard WIDE World:
Teaching for Understanding program to all district principals and ILTs. We will assist principals and ILTs with
designing, implementing, and monitoring strategic action plans that have measurable goals and that align school
and classroom culture, curriculum, instruction, assessment, resources, and professional development with the
district’s Theory of Action and other elements of Our JCPS Culture.
Sponsor: Bill Eckels
ACTION STEPS IMPLEMENTER(S) START BY FINISH BY
1. All planners and providers of professional
development for school leaders (i.e., principals,
assistant principals, counselors/deans, ILT
members) will become knowledgeable about the
Leadership Competencies and Core Practices for a
Great School and will provide support to the goals of
the NAT/VAN. The LCCP will also be aligned with
the certified employee evaluation program.
2. The Instructional Leadership Team component of the
KyCLS grant will be implemented to provide
professional development and support for
instructional leadership teams at all school levels, but
especially for those schools not meeting all their
goals, in order to assist principals and assistant
principals in leading their ILTs to leverage
instructional change/effectiveness in their
communities of practice. The lesson study approach
supported through WIDE World, as well as the
formative assessment PD and strategies for student
learning for all district ILTs, will improve collaborative
dialogue around analyzing student work and teacher
practice to understand how students learn.
Joe Burks
Sandy Ledford
Amy Dennes
Lynne Wheat
ExEL Team
July 2009
Ongoing
Lynne Wheat July 2009 Ongoing
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