Principal Project Advisory Team

Final report with appendices

Graphic with 9 beliefs and 11 recommendations

Principal Preparation Project Presentation to Regents - July 18, 2017

Letter of invitation to join Phase 2 Advisory Team

Memo of Welcome from Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner

Goal, Success Criteria, Charge, and Deliverables

First survey of Phase 2 team

Remarks Collected during 11-Stop Listening Tour

Themes from Listening Tour and Representative Remarks from Participants

Draft of SurveyMonkey on first principles

Responses to SurveyMonkey from 34 respondents, Feb 28, 2018

Narrative remarks summarized from SurveyMonkey, Feb 28, 2018

Agenda

PowerPoint

Three vignettes

Fist to Five

Mission, Power, Structure, Resources

"Getting to scale"

Responses of Phase 2 Team members to survey questions about most important issues/questions

Summary of survey results

Summary of small group composition

Professional Standards for Educational Leaders

Compiled attendance, minutes, and note transcription from Meeting 1

SurveyMonkey Evaluation of Meeting 1

Results of survey on meeting 1 evaluation

SurveyMonkey on First Principles

Summary of findings from First Principles survey

Meeting 3 Agenda

Packet of materials for Meeting 3, Feb 28

Principal Project Advisory Team Feb 28 2018 PowerPoint

Logic Model for Principal Preparation Project, all phases

Pipeline Graphic for Principal Talent

Staircase graphic showing how Phase 2 builds on Phase 1

NY State Principal Preparation Project Micro Credential Deck

Proposed first principles

Micro Credential Example, CSA Building CRE Foundation

Logic Model for Micro credentials

National College Credit Recommendation Service Overview

P20 Partnership with notations and explanatory notes

Framework for assessing entry level school superintendents

Crosswalk adaptation table comparing PSEL and Principal Supervisor Standards

Internship law citation with enlarged print

Features suggested by CADEA concerning re registering programs, Feb 2018

CADEA Program Redesign Recommendations

Compiled meeting 3 attendance, minutes, transcribed notes

Micro- Credentials

• Micro-credentials for Teachers: What Three Early Adopter States Have Learned So Far
• Developing a System of Micro-credentials: Supporting Deeper Learning in the Classroom
• What are micro-credentials?
• Can 'Micro-Credentialing' Salvage Teacher PD?
• Micro-credentials: Driving teacher learning & leadership
• Seven Lessons Learned from Implementing Micro-credentials
• SUNY Micro-credentials
• Developing a Higher Education Badging Initiative

Competency Based Assessment

• Performance Assessment for Leaders: Massachusetts Field Trial Results and Implications
• Massachusetts Performance Assessment for Leaders Candidate Assessment Handbook
• PAL Construct Validity and Reliability
• Construct Validation and Bias Review
• SBL Alignment Study Conducted by NYSED staff with help from vendor, May 2017
• Crosswalk of PSEL Standards and Indicators produced by Terry Orr, Bank Street College

Standards for Principal Supervisors

• 2015 Principal Supervisor Standards
• Professional Standards for Educational Leaders

Standards for University-Based Principal Prep Programs

• Presenter 1 Michelle Young 2016 NELP presentation
• Draft NELP Standards
• MCEAP feedback on draft NELP standards
• PDF that explains ELCC
• Draft crosswalk of PSEL, NELP, and MCEAP feedback by Gladys Cruz
• Crosswalk of PSEL, NELP, and MCEAP color coded
• NELP Draft Building Standards Document, January 26, 2018

P20 Partnership Framework

• Course Matrix to CAPES
• Course Sequence by topic assignment
• Five Types of Thinking
• EDL 600 Revision
• Concept paper identifying features of a statewide technical assistance project
• Orr chapter from Finding, Preparing, and Supporting School Leaders

Commissioner's letter of invitation to serve on the Advisory Team

Memo from Commissioner - September 21, 2016

Charge, Deliverables, and Success Criteria

Meeting-by-Meeting List of Focus Questions

Display of SUNY, CUNY and cIcu schools by pass rates and number of test-takers

Cautionary note with three graphs

Chart Displaying Results of SBL Exams in NYS from 2013 to present by Race and Ethnicity

Figure 1 Box and whisker showing age distribution for SBL candidates

Figure 10 Box and whisker plot of student to admin ratio

Themes Emerging from 22 Focus Groups Conducted from March 3 to April 10, 2017

Graphs Displaying Reaction of 235 Survey Respondents to Belief Statements, April 11, 2017

Graphs Displaying Reaction of 235 Survey Respondents to Recommendations, April 11, 2017

Results from Survey of Deans related to Professional Standards for Educational Leaders (April 5, 2017)

Day by day schedule of focus groups

Survey questions used during the Field Test

Graphs from the surveys completed by focus groups

Summary of focus group participation (graphic and tabular)

Questions for focus group meetings

Focus group participants

Focus group themes

1. School Leadership Interventions Under the Every Student Succeeds Act
2. Improving University Principal Preparation Programs
3. Improving State Evaluation of Principal Preparation Programs
4. Evaluating and Supporting Principals (Building a Stronger Principalship: Volume 4)
5. Districts Taking Charge of the Principal Pipeline (Building a Stronger Principalship: Volume 3)
6. A Shared Vision of Leadership
7. Pipeline Development
8. Pre-service Preparation
9. Evaluation and Management
10. SEP³ Toolkit
11. Re-imagining State Policy
12. What Districts Know - and Need to Know - About Their Principals
13. Statewide Data on Supply and Demand of Principals
14. Toward Convergence: A Technical Guide for the Postsecondary Metrics Framework
15. Why Elementary School Principals Matter
16. Project Narrative: Creating a State Vision
17. Standards for Advanced Programs
18. Developing Excellent School Principals to Advance Teaching and Learning
19. Supporting and Retaining Effective Principals
20. Research-Based Policy for Principal Preparation Program Approval and Licensure
21. Improving Educational Outcomes: How State Policy Can Support School Principals as Instructional Leaders
22. From Procedures to Partnership: Redesigning Principal Supervision
23. Professional Standards for Educational Leaders
24. Promises to Keep: Transforming Educator Preparation to Better Serve a Diverse Range of Learners
25. Unintended Impacts of Performance Funding on Community Colleges and Universities in Three States
26. Improving School Leader Preparation: Collaborative Models for Measuring Effectiveness
27. New York State Teacher Certification Examinations
28. Change Agents: How State Can Develop Effective School Leaders
29. Preparing School Leaders for a Changing World: Lessons from Exemplary Leadership Development Programs
30. How Leadership Influences Student Learning
31. ESSA Title IIA Guidance from US Department of Education
32. Internship Portfolio Evidence Chart
33. Delaware School Leader Prep Program Initial Meeting
34. Great Principals at Scale
35. Redesigning Principal preparation and Development for the Next Generation:  Lessons from Illinois
36. Operating in the Dark
37. The Research Base Supporting the ELCC Standards
38. School Building Leaders Study Guide Set B
39. The Professional Pipeline for Educational Leadership
40. Our Responsibility, Our Promise
41. Six Districts Begin the Principal Pipeline Initiative
42. Making Sense of Higher Ed “Innovation”
43. Beyond Retrofitting:  Innovation in Higher Education
44. State Policies on Principal Evaluation: Trends in a Changing Landscape
45. First-Year Principals in Urban School Districts
46. Using Competencies to Improve School Turnaround Principal Success
47. Importing Leaders for School Turnarounds
48. Accomplished Principal Standards
49. Closing the Talent Gap:  Attracting and retaining top-third tier graduates to careers in teaching
50. A New Approach to Principal Preparation
51. Expanding the Pipeline of Teachers and Principals in Urban Public Schools
52. Enhancing Leadership Quality
53. ISLLC Standards 2008
54. Key Issue:  Improving the Preparation of School and District Leaders
55. Successful School Leadership – What it is and how it influences pupil learning
56. The Principal Internship:  How Can We Get It Right?
57. The Accreditation Game:  Can accreditation ensure quality teacher training?
58. Public Good
59. The Ripple Effect
60. Building Principal Pipelines
61. Ambitious Leadership: How Principals Lead Schools to College
62. Lead in Denver
63. Leadership for Common Core
64. Administrator Evaluation Rubric
65. Strengthening a Principal Preparation Internship by Focusing on Diversity Issues
66. Measuring Mastery: Best Practices for Assessment in Competency-Based Education
67. Promoting Diversity in Public Education Leadership
68. Toward Convergence: A Technical Guide for the Postsecondary Metrics Framework
69. The Professional Standards for Educational Leaders (PSEL) 2015 and the Interstate Leaders Licensure Consortium (ISLLC) Standards 2008: A Crosswalk
70. Developing a pipeline of future principal supervisors
71. The State of Racial Diversity in the Educator Workforce
72. Tougher Teacher-Prep Admissions Standards Called for in Report
73. Principals and Special Education: The Critical Role of School Leaders
74. Urban School Principals and Their Role as Multicultural Leaders
75. Strengthening Professional Development for Principals: High Quality Mentoring Programs
76. A School-University Partnership in Administrator Preparation
77. Planning University-Urban District Partnerships: Implications for Principal Preparation Programs
78. Seeking Mutual Benefit: University and Districts as Partners in Preparation
79. The 21 Responsibilities of the School Leader
80. What Matters Now: A New Compact for Teaching and Learning

Meeting 2 Agenda

Advisory Team Contact List

Cautionary note with three graphs

Focus Group Themes

Graphs from the surveys completed by focus group participants

List of possible beliefs

Principal Preparation Project Advisory Team homework responses

Principal Project Advisory Team slides

Responses from 20 Advisory Team members to the beliefs prompt

Collection of Theories of Action

WebEx Protocols for the October 19, 2016 Meeting of the Principal Project Advisory Team

Webinar

Internship leave agreement

Messaging document

Substitute pay survey

Calculating the cost for substitute teacher for one full semester

Meeting 2 attendees

Meeting 2 summary

Meeting 2 - Agreements Reached and Transcription of Small-Group Notes from Chart Paper

Guiding Principles from a Jan 26, 2010 memo to NYS Board of Regents from Joseph Frey

Chart Displaying Results of SBL Exams in NYS from 2013 to present by Race and Ethnicity

Online Survey
The online survey is open to local school board members, P12 educators, and school of education deans and faculty at institutions of higher education. The survey window is open October 11, 2016 through November 1, 2016.

Meeting agenda

Meeting 4 Minutes Summary

Compiled Notes from Each of the Five Breakout Groups

Meeting 4 Attendees

Summary of advisory team member responses to online survey

Timeline of principalship

2016 NELP presentation

Performance Assessment for Leaders presentation

Massachusetts Performance Assessment for Leaders

Preparing Educational Leaders

Ossining Leadership Pipeline presentation

The Classroom Academy: A Residency Model for Teacher Preparation

Pertinent Quotations for Breakout Groups

Principal Project Advisory Team - January 25, 2017 PowerPoint

Escape Fire

Escape Fire video 1

Escape Fire video 2

Escape Fire video 3

Breakout group organizer

Consensus Belief Statements

Table comparing the plans and progress states have made with respect to revising leadership standards to conform to 2015 Professional Standards for Educational Leaders

High concept idea summary final

Sustaining the Teaching Profession

2014 UCLA Study on School Segregation

Meeting 6 Final May 1 2017 Meeting Agenda

Principal Project Advisory Team meeting, May 1 2017

Fab 5 Report to Advisory Team Members, revised, April 28, 2017

Consensus Recommendations Draft, May 4, 2017

Consensus Belief Statements and Those Under Construction as of May 3 2017

Meeting Six Attendees, May 1, 2017

Principal Prep Project Recommendations Cross Walk with Draft ESSA Plan for NYS

1. Rand Report - School Leadership Interventions Under the Every Student Succeeds Act: Evidence Review, Updated January 2017
2. The Center for School Turnaround at WestEd - Four domains for rapid school improvement: A systems framework
3. Using Needs Assessments for School and District Improvement: A Tactical Guide
4. Using Competencies to Improve School Turnaround Principal Success
5. Leader Competencies and Turnaround Actions Shown to Influence Student Achievement: A Model to Inform Talent Management and Development in Schools
6. Tier II evidence supports UVA School Turnaround Model - Assessing School Turnaround: Evidence from Ohio