Leadership Development
Good schools begin with great leaders. School leaders, Principals, must create and share a plan for a transformed school environment. They must rethink their operations and procedures to best meet the needs of their staff and students, and also plan for an unknown school year. Principals must adhere to district guidelines for returning to a school site, and adapt them, as appropriate to suit their local conditions. (They must think globally and act locally.)
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Principals need support in running schools in light of the "new normal". It might be beneficial to convene a well-respected, local Ad Hoc Advisory group, including medical and business/community leaders to help them plan locally. The Ad Hoc Advisory group can assist in making decisions regarding campus design/recommendations based on actual data.
The Council has developed several Leadership Development programs: Florida Leadership Academy; Assistant Principal Leadership Forums; Commissioners Leadership Academy; Instructional Leadership Academy; and Regional Forums. Procedures, Evaluations, and reports can be found by clicking on any of the hyperlinks below.
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Unfortunately, the Council was one of the casualties of the Covid virus and had to close its doors in 2021. For more information on Council programs please contact Dr. Elaine Liftin, (liftinela@aol.com and/or 305-775-5161).
Florida Leadership Academies/
Forums
2002 through 2012, a learning week for school teams—Principal, Assistant Principal, and teacher leader--to improve their instructional leadership skills and to learn, and apply, best practices and strategies that promote increased student achievement.
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Over 2,600 educational leaders from 750 schools (impacting the lives of more than 595,000 students) have participated in a Council Academy or Forum
STEM Strong and Steady
(Instructional School Leadership Development)
2012 a Leadership/STEM Curriculum Development Pilot Program with 130 School Site Program Participants, 14,715 Students, and 260 Educators.
The STEM Academy, through a grant from the Helios Education Foundation, developed 12 integrated middle school STEM lessons that connected inquiry based instructional practice, rigorous science and mathematics standards, and technology-augmented learning.
Commissioner’s Leadership Academy
2012 and 2013 in partnership with the FDOE and the Commissioner of Education. The program's identified cadres of 25 high performing principals annually.
These principals participated in a program to build their capacity to influence leadership and disseminate best practices to their colleagues statewide.
Commissioner’s Leadership Academy Institutes
2016 and 2017 focused on improving the understanding and complexity of teaching and building capacity on instructional leadership practices that are linked to increased student achievement.
The Academy provides a professional learning program for up to 150 public school principals and principals’ supervisors from around the state on what constitutes high quality instruction and the role highly effective school leaders’ play in improving teacher practices.