Leadership

Lynn Holdheide of CEEDAR presents at SIGnetwork Directors webinar.

Erin Lolich, an administrator in the Tigard-Tualatin School District and the director of professional development in RtI for 32 school districts, describes the types of training, coaching, and monitoring that districts find helpful. Website includes downloads for the related sample material, District Implementation Tracking Plan.

Deb Chiodo (Principal, Cornell Elementary School) describes her development as an instructional leader through the use of RtI. Systematic and regular grade-level meetings are the heart of the school's RtI operation.

The Lead for Literacy (L4L) Framework is a guide that helps school, district and state leaders navigate the process of evaluating, building, implementing, and improving teacher implementation of evidence-based literacy practices within a comprehensive schoolwide reading model.

This module highlights the key elements for school administrators who seek to support special educators and increase teacher retention (est. completion time: 1 hour).

This module emphasizes the importance of administrative support for beginning special education teachers. It also demonstrates how teacher support can increase the teacher's effectiveness in the classroom (est. completion time: 1 hour).

Specifically designed with school administrators in mind, this module offers guidance on how to support and facilitate the development and implementation of high-quality IEPs, including the monitoring of student progress (est. completion time: 2 hours).

This module offers a general overview of the concepts that principals should consider when creating inclusive schools (est. completion time: 2 hours).

NIRN and the National Center for School Turnaround (2018) published the Four Domains for Rapid School Improvement: An Implementation Framework as a companion to the Center for School Turnaround’s (2017) recent publication of The Four Domains for Rapid School Improvement: A Systems Framework. The aim of this companion paper is to describe how to use the improvement domains in practice.

The Greater Louisville Education Cooperative supports Jefferson County Public Schools (JCPS) in developing a critical perspective data report using the district data stored in the Kentucky Data Dashboard. JCPS has 150 schools with more than 101,000 students.  Read more about how district leadership uses data to assess readiness for the effective use of Evidence-based practices and programs.