Program: Upstate PDRC
Audience: Religious and Independent School Leaders and Teacher-leaders (e.g., instructional coaches, department chairs).
Dates: 8/14/2023 to 8/18/2023
Peter DeWitt's book, Instructional Leadership, offers leaders practical tools for delivering lasting improvement through small, manageable changes over time. This book explores six driving forces of instructional leadership: implementation, focus on learning, student engagement, instructional strategies, efficacy, and evaluation of impact, with an easy-to-follow, multi-stage implementation model. Leaders will define and explore instructional leadership practices, examine program logic models for initiative implementation, identify strategies to bring leaders and teachers/staff together to focus on student learning & engagement, learn four dimensions of knowledge applicable for both professional and student learning, evaluate professional dialogue & implementation of instructional strategies, learn ways to collect evidence from staff for effective, two-way feedback cycles, and practical strategies for entry points based on where your school is now. This blended book study consists of synchronous and asynchronous work. The synchronous work will be as Zoom meetings that are scheduled at 9:00 am -11:00 am on August 14, 15, 16, 17, and 18th. The asynchronous work consists of independent reading and postings in Google Classroom for which the remaining 5.0 hours of CTLE credits will be earned. Participants should plan to read the entire book prior to August 14th. See the course syllabus on our website under Professional Development/Summer Book Studies, for more information. For questions related to this book study, reach out to Rebecca Shea, rshea@measinc.com.