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Collaborative Professional Development Process for School Leaders
Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium. (2004). Collaborative Professional Development Process for School Leaders. Washington, DC: Council of Chief State School Officers.
A related article highlights the Interstate Licensure document that laid out the six standards for school leaders upon which this professional development process is based: Read more >.
If you’d like to get started “working on the work,” this step-by-step guide will take you from goals to portfolio.
You can use the process alone, but speaking from my own experience, it’s better to work with colleagues.
Get a group of interested principals together, and use this handbook to work the steps outlined here:
- Analyze professional development needs, identify preliminary goals, and prepare a preliminary plan.
- Identify a professional development team.
- Convene the professional development team, establish norms and procedures for meetings, and present a preliminary professional development plan.
- Develop portfolio products and reflective commentary.
- Engage in continuous reflection, critical analysis of products relative to the professional development plan, and periodic reexamination of the plan.
- Prepare a summative reflection and self-evaluation leading to modifications in and revisions to the professional development plan.
Details appear in each chapter of the ISLLC standards, along with advice on issues likely to arise:
- Whose team is this?
- How large?
- Within district/outside of district?
- How often to meet?
- How to stay on topic?
And my personal favorite:
- How to help a school leader focus on professional development, and not fall into a management team mode?
Copies of Collaborative Professional Development Process for School Leaders may be ordered from the Council of Chief State School Officers >.
