Designing the School Leader's Portfolio
Second Edition
Foreword by Linda Lambert
April 2008 | 136 pages | Corwin
Designing the School Leader's Portfolio provides school leaders with a practical guide to developing a data-based leadership growth plan. Linking leadership growth to school improvement goals, the author provides tools for: Creating a personal growth plan; Targeting goals and action steps; Defining a collaborative school assessment and action plan; and Incorporating standards.
Foreword by Linda Lambert
How to Use This Book
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Introduction
1. The Role of the Leadership Performance System in Accelerating Student Achievement
2. Establishing a Purpose for the LPS
3. Focusing the LPS
4. The Process and Structures for Collaborations
5. Outcomes for Action Planning and Reporting Results
6. Technology and the LPS Process
Appendices
Appendix A: LPS Resource Matrix
Appendix B: Steps in the LPS Process
Appendix C: Templates of LPS Tools
Appendix D: Sample Completed LPS Tools
Appendix E: Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium (ISLLC) Standards for School Leaders
References
Index
"The book's style and format allows the busy person to use the tasks easily. The tools can be used in workshops with school staff to provide a clear framework , giving sound reasons for the activities involved and defining the purpose for and the nature of involving others in the portfolio process."
University of Southern Queensland, Australia
"The theoretical framework behind the development of the portfolio is very powerful, and the organization of the book is great."
Kentucky Center for Instructional Discipline, KY