ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: District Leaders Grow With New Curriculum

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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: District leaders grow with new curriculum

By Kelly Gomez Johnson, Tamara Williams and Matthew Scott

Categories: Change management, College- and career-ready standards, Instructional materials/curriculum, Leadership, Learning systems/planning, School leadership

December 2020

Vol. 41, No. 6

During times of immense curricular change, district professional learning often focuses on teachers because they are on the front line of subject-specific curricular and instructional change. In contrast, districts tend to provide little, if any, support on subject-specific curriculum to administrators, while still expecting them to be instructional leaders, even in content areas where they may have limited background experience. Many of us know that feeling of being expected to lead something without background or support. One of us (Kelly Gomez Johnson) recalls sitting in an interview for a teaching job and being asked by an administrator to coach junior varsity volleyball. Years before, I had played intramural volleyball, and I knew basic rules and terms. But I was uninformed of the newer rules and

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