Seeking Feedback on draft recommendations from the Principal Preparation Project Advisory Tm |
Two-part survey on Advisory Team recommendations and certification standards
Greetings:
For the last six months, a 37-member team has been considering how to enhance state support for the preparation and development of school building leaders. Appointed by Commissioner MaryEllen Elia, this team includes teachers, principals, superintendents, parents, local school board members, representatives of civil rights organizations, outside experts, and deans (or their designees) from the schools of education at institutions of higher education in NYS. This group has been called the Principal Project Advisory Team. A members list is found here:
http://www.nysed.gov/common/nysed/files/members-of-the-principal-project-advisory-team.pdf
On September 12, 2016, the NYS Board of Regents heard a presentation on the Principal Preparation Project and on September 22, 2016 this team first convened. The charge to this team is to formulate recommendations intended to improve the preparation and support of school building leaders. The team is considering whether any changes to the certification of school building leaders (SBL) is warranted. On May 31, 2017 the Advisory Team will meet for the last time to finalize recommendations for the Commissioner and the NYS Board of Regents. Before then, Advisory Team members want to know what you think about recommendations the team is considering. This survey will help the Advisory Team weigh the merits of recommendations it is considering.
Current efforts to prepare school building leaders in New York State are organized around national standards issued in 2008 by the Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium or ISLLC. The Advisory Team is now considering whether to recommend that NYS adopt the most-current national standards for leaders. Those are the Professional Standards for Educational Leaders (developed in 2015 by the National Policy Board for Educational Administration).
This 15-minute survey has two parts.
- Part I asks for feedback on the Professional Standards for Educational Leaders.
- Part II invites feedback on draft recommendations from a Principal Project Advisory Team.
This survey is open to parents, teachers, principals (or those who earned school building leader certification), superintendents, and District Superintendents until Wednesday, May 17, 2017. Results will be summarized and shared with members of the Advisory Team, with the Commissioner, and with the Regents in a public meeting; however, no single comment will be attributed to any single respondent to this survey. Remarks that are collected will be combined and reported in summary fashion. If a single remark is representative of a theme that emerges from the survey, it may be used (without attribution to the individual) as representative of a theme.
We haven't left universities out of the picture. But a different approach is being used to gather feedback from faculty in Schools of Education at institutions of higher education that offer School Building Leader preparation programs.
You can continue to the survey now. Or, if you want more information about this work, we included a series of web links that provide background . In advance, thank you for your help.
To learn more about the Advisory Team, click here:
(http://www.nysed.gov/schools/principal-project-advisory-team)
To see the ISLLC standards, click here:
To see the ISLLC standards, click here:
(http://www.nysed.gov/common/nysed/files/principal-project-file-53-isllc-standards-2008.pdf)
For a cross-walk comparing the standards from ISLLC and PSEL, click here:
(http://www.nysed.gov/common/