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Collaborative Teams and Organizational Structure
This module offers insight about building and sustaining district, building and teacher-based teams that function effectively to support learning.
This module aligns with:
- Ohio's Leadership Development Framework, Area 1: Data and the Decision - Making Process, and
- Ohio's Leadership Development Framework, Area 6: Board Development and Governance Process
- Ohio Improvement Process: Stage 2, Stage 3, Stage 4
Approximate time to complete module: 1 1/2 hours
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Developing Shared Accountability - The Why, Who, How, and What of Teams
This module describes distributed leadership, shared accountability and decision-making processes that support continuous improvement in instructional practice and student learning.
This module aligns with:
- Ohio's Leadership Development Framework, Area 1: Data and the Decision - Making Process
- Race to the Top: Area B, Area C, Area D, and Area E
- Ohio Improvement Process: Stage 2 and Stage 3
Approximate time to complete module: 1 1/2 hours
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The Collaborative Process
This module offers strategies for facilitating and assessing meaningful collaboration, the hallmark of effective learning communities.
This module aligns with:
- Ohio's Leadership Development Framework, Area 2: Focused Goal - Setting Process
- Race to the Top: Area B, Area C, Area D, and Area E
- Ohio Improvement Process: Stage 0, Stage 2, Stage 3
Approximate time to complete module: 1 1/2 hours
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Community Engagement
This module explores the components of effective community engagement (civic engagement, participatory democracy, or public decision making). Most often, it is referred to as public engagement and, when practiced effectively, is inherently valuable in a school community.
This module aligns with:
- Ohio's Leadership Development Framework, Area 4: Community Engagement Process
- Ohio Improvement Process: Stage 0, Stage 1, Stage 2, and Stage 3
Approximate time to complete module: 1 hour
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Effective Curriculum Practices
This module addresses the identification of standards and alignment of prioritized skills in developing a cohesive curriculum for 21st century students.
This module aligns with:
- Ohio's Leadership Development Framework, Area 3: Instruction and the Learning Process
- Race to the Top: Area B, Area C, Area D, and Area E
- Ohio Improvement Process: Stage 1, Stage 2, Stage 3
Approximate time to complete module: 1 1/2 hours
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Learning Supports
This module offers information that can be used to design and evaluate a range of instructional practices that will address the unique learning needs of each student.
This module aligns with:
- Ohio's Leadership Development Framework, Area 3: Instruction and the Learning Process
- Race to the Top: Area C
- Ohio Improvement Process: Stage 2 and Stage 3
Approximate time to complete module: 1 1/2 hours
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The Instructional Process
This module reviews important research and encourages educators to reach consensus around their shared understanding of what constitutes "high quality" instructional practice.
This module aligns with:
- Ohio's Leadership Development Process, Area 3: Instruction and the Learning Process
- Race to the Top: Area B and Area D
- Ohio Improvement Process: Stage 2 and Stage 3
Approximate time to complete module: 1 hour
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Assessment and Learning
This module examines the importance of using both formative and summative assessments to improve student performance.
This module aligns with:
- Ohio's Leadership Development Framework, Area 3: Instruction and the Learning Process
- Race to the Top: Area B, Area C, and Area D
- Ohio Improvement Process: Stage 2 and Stage 3
Approximate time to complete module: 1 1/2 hours
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Creating Cultures Grounded in Data
This module supports leadership teams in the process of using relevant data to ensure deeper learning for students.
This module aligns with:
- Ohio's Leadership Development Framework, Area 1: Data and the Decision-Making Process
- Race to the Top: Area B, Area C, Area D, and Area E
- Ohio Improvement Process: Stage 0
Approximate time to complete module: 1 1/2 hours
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Development of a Focused Plan
This module reviews the roles of leadership teams in creating and fully implementing focused strategies and actions to meet district identified needs as represented in coherent district improvement plans and aligned building plans.
This module aligns with:
- Ohio's Leadership Development Framework, Area 2: Focused Goal - Setting Process
- Race to the Top: Area C, Area D, and Area E
- Ohio Improvement Process: Stage 2 and Stage 3
Approximate time to complete module: 1 1/2 hours
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Facilitating High-Quality Instructional Practice
This module identifies specific elements of educational strategies that leadership teams can use to support improved instructional practice.
This module aligns with:
- Ohio's Leadership Development Framework, Area 3: Instruction and the Learning Process
- Race to the Top: Area B, Area C, Area D, and Area E
- Ohio Improvement Process: Stage 2 and Stage 3
Approximate time to complete module: 1 1/2 hours
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Higher Education: How OLAC Essential Practices Align with Other Relevant Standards
This module provides information showing how the OLAC Essential Practices and selected activities accompanying each module align with several sets of standards that influence programs for the initial preparation and on-going professional development of teachers, principals, and superintendents.
Approximate time to complete module: 45 minutes
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The Change Process
This module highlights change theory and is designed to help leadership teams avoid common pitfalls while putting district-wide reforms in place to make and sustain improvements in instructional practice and student achievement.
This module aligns with:
- Ohio's Leadership Development Framework, Area 2: Focused Goal-Setting Process
- Race to the Top: Area B, Area C, Area D, and Area E
- Ohio Improvement Process: Stage 0, Stage 2, Stage 3, and Stage 4
Approximate time to complete module: 1 1/2 hours
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Resource Management
This module emphasizes broadening the definition to include time, money, staff, and programmatic resources, as well as strategies for intentionally aligning decisions about the use of resources toward meeting district-identified goals for instruction and student achievement.
This module aligns with:
- Ohio's Leadership Development Framework, Area 5: Resource Management
- Race to the Top: Area D
- Ohio Improvement Process: Stage 1, Stage 2, Stage 3, and Stage 4
Approximate time to complete module: 1 hour
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Learning for the Future: Innovation, Creativity, Problem Solving, and Design
This module broadens our understanding of how, where and when students are learning as they prepare for life and work in a dynamic, global economy.
This module aligns with:
- Ohio's Leadership Development Framework, Area 3: Instruction and the Learning Process
- Race to the Top: Area B, Area C, Area D, and Area E
- Ohio Improvement Process: Stage 2 and Stage 3
Approximate time to complete module: 1 1/2 hours
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