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OLAC Learning Modules

Module 1: Transforming Education - Ohio's Leadership Development Framework

This module introduced by both Deborah Delisle and Jerry Klenke highlights the core areas and essential practices discussed in the remaining modules. All modules are designed to support district-wide improvement efforts.

Module 2: Creating Cultures Grounded in Data - Ohio's Leadership Framework and the Ohio Improvement Process

This module supports leadership teams in the process of using relevant data to ensure deeper learning for students.

Module 3: Developing Shared Accountability - The Why, Who, How, and What of Teams

This module describes distributed leadership and shared accountability in decision-making processes that support learning.

Module 4: Development of a Focused Plan

This module reviews the roles of leadership teams in creating and using aligned plans that focus on improving student achievement.

Module 5: The Collaborative Process

This module offers strategies for facilitating and assessing collaboration, the hallmark of effective learning communities.

Module 6: The Change Process

This module highlights change theory and is designed to help leadership teams avoid common pitfalls while moving toward their vision for student success.

Module 7: Effective Curriculum Practices

This module addresses the identification of standards and alignment of prioritized skills in developing a cohesive curriculum for 21st century students.

Module 8: Facilitating High-Quality Instructional Practice

[ Content for this module is currently under construction ] This module identifies specific elements of educational strategies that leadership teams can use to support improved instructional practice.

Module 9: Assessment and Learning

This module examines the importance of using both formative and summative assessments to improve student performance.

Module 11: Board Development and Governance Process

This module reviews and summarizes the emerging research about the leadership role of boards of education and the research-based essential board leadership practices that affect student achievement.

Module 12: Community Engagement

Community engagement goes by many names - civic engagement, participatory democracy, or public decision making - but it is most often otherwise referred to as public engagement and is inherently valuable in a school community.

Module 13: Resource Management

This module focuses on Area 5 of the OLAC framework which emphasizes broadening the definition of resource management to include time, money, staff, and programmatic resources, as well as the importance of directing all efforts toward student achievement.