Additional agency partners are the County Office of Education, WestEd (formerly FarWest Lab), Bay Region IV (1882) Staff Development Consortium and the CSLA School Leadership Center. Click here for a list of Leadership League Principals and Assistant Principals .
 

League work is designed by its members, using university, school and partner agency resources. Members

 

a) come together to learn, listen, and problem-solve e.g.: meet as teams or cross-school groups for study and skill building, visit other schools for learning and feedback;

b) participate in events, institutes and study groups, sponsored by the CEL/Professional Development School Partnership;

c) are able to consult with resource people from our partner agencies and schools who can serve as critical friends and a planning or problem-solving resource to teams or individuals within the school; and

d) have open access to the CEL leadership clearinghouse, to CSUH, and to partner resources via technology.
 

a) agreement within each school on its priorities for action, with priorities linked to results for student success;

b) readiness of the school leadership team or council to strengthen and reflect on its own practice and to seek increasingly shared and skillful leadership within the school community;

c) inquiry or action research to direct progress toward school goals;

d) willingness to share expertise, questions and learning with member school and university colleagues;

e) district support, as reflected in

 f) -conversations to clarify the priorities at each site and the support possible to help achieve them;

 g) -appropriate assistance with release time, partial substitute costs, etc., for professional development, and planning; and

 h) -access to relevant student achievement data.

To belong to the partnership, requires

 
 a) time- whatever theschool is able to allocate for professional development, team meetings, study groups with League colleagues, special Center institutes or retreats; and

b) sharedcost of substitute teachers to provide time for faculty planning, practice and inquiry.

(The CEL grant funding from the Hewlett Foundation assists withthe cost of meetings, presenters, consultants and resources, and partial reimbursement for substitute teachers.)
 

This partnership is focused on the implementation of school plans to improve student learning. It’s about decisions, action, and follow-through, and also about using leadership processes to create a healthy, supportive community that nurtures both student and adult learning.
 

Our intent is to provide a resource that schools will use to gain coherence and results in their work with existing initiatives. Developing broader, more skillful leadership enables a school to clarify its priorities and move effectively to achieve them. We see leadership as a critical factor in managing change and in reaching results that have both impact and staying power -- that make a difference for student learning. We offer this partnership to schools who share that perspective and want to expand their leadership capacity in order to achieve their goals.
 

Remember the cliché about school change being equivalent to building the airplane while it’s in flight? This is flight training. Survival in times of chaotic change and overload is a function of leadership. If you need to broaden support and strengthen skills to meet the goals you’ve set, the League will offer focused help, not just one more network.

For additional information, please contact Gay Hoagland, (hoagland@mindspring.com), or Margaret Desmond, (mdesmond@csuhayward.edu) or call theCenter Office (510-885-2279).