1. Executive Director of Principal Leadership and Effectiveness
Tommie L. McCarter
Executive Director of Principal Leadership and Effectiveness

2. Sustaining Student Achievement
Teacher Professional Development
Data-Driven Instruction
Professional Learning Communities
Intervention Strategies
Formative Assessment Strategies
Building Strong Community Partnerships
Transformational Leadership

3. Common, Agree-upon Definition of Effective School Principals
MCS APPROACH
Vision and Theory of Change
A Collaborative Effort of PEI and TEI to Improve Student Achievement
Improve Principal Leadership Capacity to Drive TEI
Build a school culture that promotes high academic standards in preparing students to become successful, productive citizens and to live life abundantly.
Improve Principal Professional Development and Support System
Dramatically Improve Student Achievement, ACT Scores, and Graduation Rates
Common, Agree-upon Definition of Effective School Principals
Increase the number of Highly Effective Instructional Principals and Assistant Principals
Increase Principal Recruitment and Retention Rate
Improve Culture Building leadership training for new and existing Principals

4. The 8 Steps to Leading Transformative Change
STEP ONE
Increase Urgency
STEP FIVE
Empower Action
STEP TWO
Build the Guiding Team
STEP SIX
Create Short-Term Wins
STEP THREE
Get the Vision Right
STEP SEVEN
Don’t Let Up
STEP FOUR
Communicate for Buy-in
STEP EIGHT
Make Change Stick

5. Closing
I believe that each child is an individual of worth, who is to be respected, accepted, encouraged, and provided a quality education. My guiding principle is to focus unrelentingly on teaching and learning. Growth in student achievement, reflected in multiple indicators, supported by student interventions is the outcome I use to gauge productivity. Of every program in place, and every reform proposed, I ask: “Does it improve student achievement?”