Developing Cohesive Leadership Means Addressing All Parts Of The System

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Developing cohesive leadership means addressing all parts of the system

In my role with the School Administrators of Iowa leading Iowa’s leadership grant fromThe Wallace Foundation, I work with a coalition of individuals and groups striving to implement a cohesive leadership system for school leaders. Efforts to create a cohesive leadership system in Iowa for the past nine years have resulted in: Establishing leadership standards and criteria against which every administrator is to be evaluated; Modeling evaluation resource guides to ensure that the process is rooted in best practice; Redesigning leadership preparation programs in all our universities; Trainings for administrators through leadership academies; A required mentoring and induction program for new administrators; Strengthening leadership work delivered through the intermediate service agencies; Redesigning the role of central office leaders to more clearly align with the work

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