1. Welcome! PreK-3 Principal Leadership Series
Embrace the PreK-3 Early Learning Continuum
Session One, August 10, 2016
“Leading for educational excellence and equity. Every day for every one.”

2. Work started in 2011 – various PD offerings
Year and a half ago we started working on a model for implementing PreK-3
Leadership, Competency, Organization
Coach, Players, Team (how well we play)
Large focus on alignment, but we are always striving towards implementation and practice
About capacity building
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3. NAESP Guidance came out from NAESP at the perfect time!
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4. Competencies Indicators Strategies*
Books uses terms indicators and strategies interchangeably. We distinguish between indicator and strategy, because of focus of PLS is building strategies.
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5. Principal Leadership Series and PreK-3
Overall Goal of PLS To build and support the capacity of principals to systematically and effectively lead PreK-3 efforts in their schools and communities to improve the learning outcomes for all children.
Early childhood is ready to go. Feedback from field is that they want their principals to be on board and to lead.
One note here about leading. In PreK-3 work, many people are involved, from building to district to community. Here is where the sports analogy ends, because there is not one leader.
When we look at PreK-3 work and system development, we are more concerned about WHO IS NOT LEADING – as this is where we get stalled.
Also, always working towards coherence – shared depth of understanding
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6. Series Website
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7. Self-Assessment
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8. Strategy Building
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9. Agenda

10. Series’ Website Twitter
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Meet Our Facilitators
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