Standard 1. Strategic Leadership
This section of the module explores the elements of Standard 1. Click any element to explore it
in depth.
Principals/assistant principals will create conditions that result in strategically
re-imaging the school's vision, mission, and goals in the 21st century. Understanding that schools ideally
prepare students for an unseen but not altogether unpredictable future, the leader creates a climate of
inquiry that challenges the school community to continually re-purpose itself by building on its
core values and beliefs about its preferred future and then developing a pathway to reach it.
Elements
- School Vision, Mission and Strategic Goals: The school's identity, in part,
is derived from the vision, mission, values, beliefs and goals of the school, the processes used
to establish these attributes, and the ways they are embodied in the life of the school community.
- Leading Change: The principal/assistant principal articulates a vision, and
implementation strategies, for improvements and changes which result in improved achievement for all students.
- School Improvement Plan: The school improvement plan provides the structure for the
vision, values, goals and changes necessary for improved achievement for all students.
- Distributive Leadership: The principal/assistant principal creates and utilizes processes
to distribute leadership and decision making throughout the school.
