Agenda

• Welcome• Reception Celebration• Principal Shadow Debrief• Leadership Frameworks• Professional Portfolios/Interview Process• Feedback and Evaluation

Welcome!

Find a partner from a different school district

• 1 Professional Celebration• 1 Personal Celebration• Plans for the Summer?

“A collaborative approach to addressing the need for highly effective leaders in

urban schools in Bexar County.”

Overview

• PREP Priority Concepts– Read/Connect/Build relationships with the

education community– Instructional Leadership/Instructional Focus– Capacity Building/Shared Leadership– Systems – Implementing/Aligning – Vision – Creativity/Innovation

Overview There will be approximately 30 participants from across the San Antonio area

selected to participate in Bexar PREP. Participants were selected by participating districts. There will be a total of six pull-out days and one “Shadow a Principal for a Day,”

for a total of seven days. Meetings will be conducted in a variety of locations, including the district

offices, ESC-20, and schools in the San Antonio area. The principals who have vice/assistant principals selected to participate in the

program will be given assessments to complete. A campus principal will serve as a site mentor during the year. Presentation skills, interview tips, & development of a Career Advancement

Portfolio will be addressed. Instruction and leading in urban communities is a primary focus. Professional resources will be provided. Participants will work with successful principals, professors, & superintendents.

• Day 1: Purpose and Vision• Day 2: Creating Cultural Responsiveness• Day 3: Addressing the Unique Needs of Urban

Students: Effective Practices• Day 4: Perspectives on Urban

Leadership/Alignment and Data• Day 5: Transforming School Culture• Day 6: Forwarding the Action and Celebration• Shadow a Principal for a Day

Principal Shadow Debrief

• What instructional systems do you have in place? How? When? Where? Please share examples and any relevant artifacts or resources.

• With the many responsibilities involved with the principalship, how do you ensure that instructional leadership is a priority?

• When you became a principal of this school, what were some of the first steps you took to improve academic success for all students?

• When you became a principal of this school, how did you assess the school culture and what did you do to strengthen the school culture around teaching and learning?

Principal Shadow Debrief

• Groups of four • Chart commonalties/differences and other key learning• Share with Cohort• Roles– Facilitator – Recorder– Reporter– Time Keeper

Commonalities Differences

Other Key Learning and Observations

The Leadership Framework

“After everything you’ve learned in PREP this year, if you were promoted tomorrow to an

urban school in your district that was in need of instructional reform, where would you start?”

• Table Talk • Guided Discussion

Professional Portfolios/Interview Process

Feedback and Evaluation

• PREP Feedback

• TAMU-SA/UTSA Questionnaire

Thank you!

Jeff

Nancy

“Leadership is communicating people’s worth and potential so clearly that they are inspired to see it in themselves.”

-Stephen Covey