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Evidence-Based Leadership
As a grade school principal evidence-based leadership requires that I implement learning strategies that have been adequately researched and proven to be successful and effective with the population my school serves. Evidence-based leadership also requires that I continuously gather feedback and data regarding my leadership activities and my effectiveness within my school's environment. As a grade-school level principal in an underperforming urban school I have many opportunities to use evidence-based leadership to improve our school's instructional design and to monitor and enhance my own performance as the lead administrator. Two areas in which this has been particularly useful is the development of literacy programs in our school and the improvement of internal communications between the administrative team and the staff at our school. Test scores have been below average at this school site over the past 3 years, and a major part of my work at this school is to work in partnership with an instructional coach who is assigned to the site to provide new curriculum and teacher coaching for our ELA department. Our district has used a variety of evidence-based leadership approaches to select and implements a new literacy program intended to help below standard student improve their ELA skills. The district chose a highly researched program, Read 180, because it has been carefully studied and shown to exact noteworthy improvements in the reading skills of students with Below Basic and Far Below Basic test scores. The district's decision to review a variety…
References
Steve Fleischman. Moving to Evidence-Based Professional Practice. Improving Professional Practice. March 2006. 63(6) pp 87-90. Web. 25 October, 2011
Principals Australia Incorporated. 2010. The L5 Frame and evidence-based leadership. Web. 25, October, 2010
http://www.principalsaustralia.edu.au/LL_APAPDC_STANDARDS
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