WEBINAR: Central office leaders play an essential role in creating the conditions for student-centered school leaders to learn and grow. Hear from our central office leader partners from Springfield Public Schools in Oregon and Columbus City Schools in Ohio about how they’ve been shifting leadership practices across district teams by listening to and learning from students.
Learning tools
Our use of frameworks with partners often generates tools that can support your learning and changes in your leadership practice. Below are some of the downloadable resources, viewable webinars and books we offer.
Grow Your Equity Stance: Revised Principal Support Framework
In 2022, CEL revised the Principal Support Framework based on changes to the 4 Dimensions of School Leadership™, learning from our partnerships with districts across the country and knowledge from emerging literature on educational leadership. What can central office...
Got Support? Principals and Their Central Offices
WEBINAR: Today’s principals are much more than building managers and disciplinarians. They must also be public relations professionals, curricula experts, data specialists — and instructional leaders. Learn how school systems across the country are adapting to this changed reality.
Structured Continuous Improvement for Central Office Teams
WEBINAR: Want to redesign how work happens at your central office? Striving to establish a culture of learning and innovation? This webinar digs into what these practices look like at the ground level, from activity cycles to establishing team project priorities.
Introducing the 5D+™ Rubric for Instructional Growth and Teacher Evaluation, Version 3
WEBINAR: Patty Maxfield, CEL’s former director of teacher evaluation, introduces version three of the 5D+ Rubric. She explains what educators using the tool in their practice need to keep in mind when switching to the updated rubric.
Keeping the Student at the Center of Instructional Leadership
WEBINAR: Learn instructional-leadership strategies to help principals, coaches and central office leaders to keep students at the center of their work — and improve their ability to give feedback and plan professional development. This is a series of three webinars.
Tried-and-Tested Strategies to Teach Central Office Leaders the Role of the Principal
WEBINAR: The expectations and goals for principals have changed, but not everybody in the central office knows what that means and how to deal with it. Hillsborough County Public Schools in Tampa, Fl., took this issue on and yielded impressive results.
