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 * Read the Case Study regarding Leadership on page 11 of the NSDC Standards text handed out in class. In your PLC discuss Discussion Questions 1-4. Have a record keeper in your group synthesize your group's responses to these questions. If your group needed more information, describe what you need to know and how you would go about discovering this information.**

1. What professional development is provided and what is needed to support principals as leaders in the development of the necessary knowledge and skills outlined in this standard? In the case study, twice monthly meetings called by the superintendent is needed to support principals and other adminstrators as leaders in the development of the necessary knowledge and skills. Two additional staff development days are implemented in the calendar year for principals to share the information they have attained during the twice monthly meetings called by the superintendent with their faculty and staff.

2. How is teacher leadership nurtured, developed, and utilized in the schools and district? Are there additional ways it could be tapped to advance student learning? Teacher leadership is nutured, developed and utilized in schools by principals and the superintendent who are modeling superb leadership skills.

3. What have been some positive results and challenges of working with electronic tools to support leadership? Some positive results in the case study that occured within the district to support leadership included teachers becoming "virtually self-directed" and have become responsible for leading committees. Unfortunately the case study did not provide examples of electronic tools that were used to support leadership within this district; however, the selected references could be used to further gather information regarding electronic tools used in this district to promote leadership. 4. Who are potential advocates for staff development? What information and help do they need? Potential advocates for staff development are community members, staff and board members. These members have developed a private foundation in order to support professional development efforts. In order to provide effective support, the parents and community members will need to consistently engage in meetings and open discussions with teachers and administrators. Extension Question:

How is the NSDC Leadership standard evidenced or not evidenced within your school systems? How did you come to these understandings about your school? The following NSDC Leadership standards are evident in our school systems: -Learning Communities: The learning communities are evident in our school improvement plans. -Leadership: Our principals have monthly meetings, our schools have monthly staff meetings and our grade levels have weekly meetings. -Resources: Resources include software, literature, webinars and technology leaders (and other professional leaders) -Data-driven: Data teams -Evaluation: Data teams and school improvement plan committees. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">--Collaboration: Weekly meetings by grade level, staff meeting, quarterly SIP meetings and various other committes( data, technology) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">-Quality Teachers: We have highly qualified teachers (masters, specialist, doctorate and endorsements) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">-Learning: This is present in staff development meetings geared towards keeping teachers current (example: technology development and usage)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">The following NSDC Leadership standards are evident in some of our systems and not evident in some of our systems. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">-Design: For the majority the staff developments are designed to support intended goals. For example, 6 trait training supports proficient writing development. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">-Equity: This is present in some of schools but not all of our schools as not all school populations are equally catered to. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">-Family Involvement- For some of our schools this is evident by having parent information night where parents are provided information about what is going on at the school and love/logic training.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">The following NSDC Leadership standards are not-evident in our school systems: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">research based