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The school is organized to maximize use of all available resources to support high student and staff performance.
Performance Expectations:
The school leader acquires and uses resources wisely for the purpose of student achievement.
The school leader uses and organizes time in innovative ways to meet the goals and objectives of school improvement.
Indicators for this Standard:
8.1a - Maximize organization and resources for achievement
There is evidence that the school is organized to maximize use of all available resources to support high student and staff performance.
8.1b - Master schedule provides all students access
The master schedule reflects all students have access to all of the curriculum.
8.1c - Staffing based on student needs
The instructional and non-instructional staff are allocated and organized based upon the learning needs of all students.
8.1d - Staff's efficient use of time to maximize learning
There is evidence that the staff makes efficient use of instructional time to maximize student learning.
8.1e - Team vertical and horizontal planning focused on improvement plan
Staff promotes team planning vertically and horizontally across content areas and grade configurations that is focused on the goals, objectives, and strategies in the improvement plan (e.g., common planning time for content area teachers, emphasis on learning time and not seat time, and integrated units).
8.1f - Schedule aligned with student learning needs
The schedule is intentionally aligned with the school's mission and designed to ensure that all staff provide quality instructional time (e.g., flex time, organization based on developmental needs of students, interdisciplinary units).
8.2a - Resources used, equitably
The school/district provides a clearly defined process (in accordance with the school allocation formula) to provide equitable and consistent use of fiscal resources.
8.2b - Discretionary funds allocated on data based needs
The school/district budget reflects decisions made about discretionary funds and resources are directed by an assessment of need or a required plan, all of which consider appropriate data.
8.2c - Funds aligned with CSIP goals
School council and school board analyze funding and other resource requests to ensure the requests are tied to the school's plan and identified priority needs.
8.2d - State/Federal funds allocated with CSIP goals and data needs
State and Federal Program Resources are allocated and integrated (Safe Schools, Title I, IDEA, FRYSC's, ESS) to address student needs identified by the school/district.
Key Relationships with Other Standards:
Kentucky's Standards and Indicators for School Improvement
Standard 7: Leadership - School/district instructional decisions focus on support for teaching and learning, organizational direction, high performance expectations, creating a learning culture, and developing leadership capacity.
Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium (ISLLC) Standard 3:
A school administrator is an educational leader who promotes the success of all students by ensuring management of the organization, operations, and resources for a safe, efficient, and effective learning environment.
North Central Regional Technology in Education Consortium
National Technology Standards for School Administrators:
Standard IV: Educational leaders ensure the integration of technology to support productive systems for learning and administration.
Resources and Activities for this Standard:
Although there are many resources available for the individual school leader, the partners of this leadership initiative recommend that the following resources be explored:
Books:
The Breakthrough Strategy: Using Short-term Successes to Build the High Performance Organization, by Robert Schaffer
Building Capacity in Schools, by Linda Lambert
Connections: Quadrant 2 Time Management, by A. Roger Merrill
First Break all the Rules, by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman
Principle Centered Leadership, by Stephen Covey
Schools for the 21st Century, by Phillip Schlechty
Schools That Learn, by Peter Senge
The 21st Most Powerful Minutes of a Leader, by John Maxwell
What's Worth Fighting For in Our Schools, by Michael Fullan
Articles:
Breaking Ranks (1996) by NASSP
KDE Resources:
KDE eSource
Examples of topics in this collection include: African American, Asian, Native American, and Latino History & Culture; Civil and Human Rights Materials; Gender and Cultural Sensitivity Information; Violence Prevention Information; Lesson Planning and Curriculum Tools, Implementation Strategies, and Techniques and Disability Information.
KDE School Based Decision Making Council (SBDM)
School Based Decision Making is the required decision making method for most of Kentucky's schools. Beginning in 1990 with the Kentucky Education Reform Act, this research based decision making strategy is a tool used in Kentucky schools to create conditions at the school level that will help all students reach proficiency by 2014.
KDE Professional Development Statutes and Regulations
Statutes and regulations as related to professional development issues.
Kentucky Teacher Internship Program (KTIP)
Guidelines and regulations as related to the Kentucky Teacher Internship Program.
The Standards and Indicators for School Improvement (SISI)
The Standards and Indicators for School Improvement define the elements of whole school improvement that schools can put into effect at the elementary, middle and high school levels in order to produce desired learning results.
District Level Performance Descriptors and Glossary for Kentucky's Standards and Indicators for School Improvement (District Level SISI)
Student Performance Standards
In June, 2001, the Kentucky Board of Education accepted new performance standards that resulted from a comprehensive process involving more than 1,600 Kentucky teachers, various advisory groups, and which provided for public input. These new standards set the stage for the work that lies ahead of Kentucky's educators: To improve the academic achievement of all our students.
Technology Standards for Personnel
Technology standards for Kentucky's students, teachers and administrators are in various states of development. Teacher Technology Standards are in place. Administrator Technology Standards are in the process of being approved, and Student Technology Standards are in the proposal stage.
Contacts:
Kentucky Association of School Councils (KASC)
KASC Home Page
National Education Commission on Time and Learning
Report: Prisoners of Time (1994)
Education Professional Standards Board
Standards for Experienced Teachers, New Teachers, and Administrators