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Leadership for Student Achievement: A Pilot Initiative

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LEADERSHIP FOR
STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT:
A PILOT INITIATIVE
The Leadership for Student Achievement
Initiative is designed to create a partnership
between PDE and a group of six higher education institutions to develop innovative models of principal preparation that are based on best practices and content known to increase student learning. The six institutions are Drexel University, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, Penn State University, Temple University, University of Pittsburgh, and Wilkes University. 		While this pilot initiative intentionally encourages
innovation and creativity within the institutions of higher education, it requires that each program adhere to the nine standards of the Pennsylvania Inspired Leadership Program. One highlight of Edinboro’s innovative model requires principal, supervisor, and superintendent interns to engage in a focus project onstudent achievement. This conference showcases our student’s work as well as serves as a resource for in practice educational leaders in Northwestern Pennsylvania and across the Commonwealth.
PLIN

Most new school principals start out with little administrative experience and are often left relatively on their own to figure out their new job. Mentoring programs for new teachers are well established but very little has been available for administrators. Usually a new principal is assigned a buddy-principal in the district, but the job is so demanding that there is often little time for these principals to assist each other.

PIL

Pennsylvania school districts and intermediate unit educational agencies have a new mission. They must respond to increased accountability like never before. As a result of the No Child Left Behind federal legislation, all students must perform at least at the proficient level on state testing of Pennsylvania Standards by the year 2014. Low-performing schools need sustained increases in student performance while higher-performing schools must move from "good" to "great." We cannot expect school leaders to rise to this challenge without making sure that they are equipped with the right knowledge, skills and attitudes.

LEAPS
The purpose of the Leadership and Excellence for Administrators in Pennsylvania Schools (LEAPS) is to strengthen the capacity of school administrators to become outstanding managers and to enable educational leaders to make better informed decisions that improve their schools' teaching and learning environments. The ultimate outcome is to improve student achievement in these administrators' schools.

Edinboro University of Pennsylvania Educational Leadership Program Information