Leadership for Teaching and Learning

Student Learning Outcomes, Goals, Objectives:

Students successfully completing this course will be able to:

• Understand the culture and practices of good schools and be able to articulate the nature of curriculum and instruction in such schools.
• Understand various ways instructional leadership can be practiced as a principal.
• Understand how change is initiated and sustained.
• Demonstrate professional competencies from the NC Standards for School Executives including Communication, Emotional Intelligence, Organizational Ability, Personal Ethics and Values, Personal Responsibility for Performance, Responsiveness, Sensitivity, and Time Management.

Course Grading Information:

Activity/Performance Measure	Percentage/Points
Attendance, participation, and Canvas discussions	10%
Covenant Project (group project)	30%
Working with Data Project Part 1: Looking at School Data – The big picture	10%
Working with Data Project Part 2: Looking at School Data – The detailed picture	10%
Working with Data Project Part 3: Professional Learning Communities Project	10%
Working with Data Project Part 4: Leading Change for School Improvement: Professional Learning Community Group Plan	10%
The Principal as the Instructional Leader Article Reviews	20%

Grading Scale

Percentage	Letter Grade
A	Excellent work demonstrating independent high quality performance
A-	Very good work indicating consistent and careful thought and attention to the task; some room for improvement and thoroughness
B+	Good work carefully executed for the most part yet requiring several areas of improvement
B	Work of graduate standard but omissions exist or careful analysis is not evident
B-	Effort is evident but work indicates lack of understanding of the demands of the task
C+	Poor quality work with little attention to detail and the demands of the task
C	Work of very poor quality indicating no understanding of the depth of analysis required
F	Work has violated the academic honor code and academic integrity policy.

Attendance/Participation:

You are expected to physically and intellectually attend every class session, and to participate in class discussions and activities. If you are unable to attend a class session, please provide the instructor with as much advance notice as possible.

You are expected to thoughtfully and actively participate in the Canvas discussion for each week when prompts are listed. There is no set minimum number of times you need to participate. Your grade will be based on thoughtful participation and on-going, active engagement in discussions.

Attendance, participation, and Canvas discussions will count for 10% of the course grade.

Course Materials Purchased by the Students:

James-Ward, C., Fisher, D., Frey, N., & Lapp, D. (2013). Using Data To Focus Instructional Improvement. Alexandria, VA: ASCD