1. Welcome! PreK-3 Principal Leadership Series
Use Multiple Measures to Guide Growth
in Student Learning
Session Three, January 11, 2016
“Leading for educational excellence and equity. Every day for every one.”

2. Introduction to Session 3
Journey into PreK-3
Principal Leadership Series
Online Modules
System Building and Implementation
Review of Session 2
Preview of Session 3
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3. PreK-3 Principal Leadership Series Overarching Goal
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.
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4. Supporting Your PreK-3 Efforts Three Core Drivers
1. Leadership
2. Educator Competencies
3. Organization/System
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5. PreK-3 Implementation Model (draft)
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6. Principal Leadership Series
PreK-3 Professional Development Series Professional Development Offerings
1. Leadership
Principal Leadership Series
2. Educator Competencies
UNC FirstSchool Online Modules
3. Organization/Systemness
PreK-3 System Implementation
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7. PreK-3 Professional Development Series Principal Leadership Series
“Principals are the key to change. They work with peers as learning partners to build the skills needed to support capacity building at the school level.”
(Fullan and Quinn, 2015, p. 59)
Principal as Lead Learner
“Lead learners build professional capital across their organizations by modeling learning, shaping culture, and maximizing the impact on learning.”
(Fullan and Quinn, 2015, p. 54)
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8. PreK-3 Professional Development Series Principal Leadership Series
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9. PreK-3 Professional Development Series UNC FirstSchool Online Modules
Building a culture of growth
Starting late spring
Free for PLS participant schools
More information coming soon
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10. PreK-3 Professional Development Series PreK-3 Alignment to Coherence
Alignment Coherence
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11. PreK-3 Alignment to Coherence: Putting it all Together
“We define coherence as a shift in shared mind-set rather than alignment, which is about getting the structures right. Alignment on paper does not generate clarity. New cultures do.”
Michael Fullan and Joanne Quinn (2015). Coherence: The Right Drivers in Action for Schools, Districts, and Systems, p. 24.
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12. Principal Goals: Session 2
Highlights from Session 2
PLCs
Growth mind set
Commitment
Productive discussions
We are all learning together (funds of knowledge)
PreK-K
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13. Work Plan Goals: Session 1
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14. Work Plan Goals: Session 2
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16. Session 3: Goal
Understand how to improve teaching and learning through multiple measures of assessing child/student progress.
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17. “The goal of assessment must be to improve teaching and learning”
Competency 4
Effective principals use multiple measures to assess student progress and support student learning growth.
“The goal of assessment must be to improve teaching and learning”
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18. Self-Assessment (where we are at)
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19. Work Plan (where we are going)
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20. Work Plan (sample)
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21. Agenda

22. Series’ Website Twitter
Twitter
#MNP3Principals
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23. Dr. Sharon Ritchie
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