Instructional Leadership
Education leaders shape a collaborative culture of teaching and learning informed by professional standards and focused on student and professional growth.
Elements of Standard 2
Elements and example indicators
The element statements and example indicators below reproduce the state framework. Open an Element to review its indicators and follow any indicator link for the corresponding detailed SDLA resource page.
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Element 2A: Professional Learning Culture
Leaders promote a culture in which staff engages in individual and collective professional learning that results in their continuous improvement and high performance.
- Establish coherent, research-based professional learning aligned with organizational vision and goals for educator and student growth.
- Promote professional learning plans that focus on real situations and specific needs related to increasing the learning and well-being of all staff and students.
- Capitalize on the diverse experience and abilities of staff to plan, implement, and assess professional learning.
- Strengthen staff trust, shared responsibility, and leadership by instituting structures and processes that promote collaborative inquiry and problem solving.
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Element 2B: Curriculum and Instruction
Leaders guide and support the implementation of standards-based curriculum, instruction, and assessments that address student expectations and outcomes.
- Develop a shared understanding of adopted standards-based curriculum that reflects student content and performance expectations.
- Promote and monitor the use of state frameworks and guides that offer evidence-based instructional and support strategies to increase learning for diverse student assets and needs.
- Provide access to a variety of resources that are needed for the effective instruction and differentiated support of all students.
- Guide and monitor the alignment of curriculum, instruction, assessment, and professional practice.
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Element 2C: Assessment and Accountability
Leaders develop and use assessment and accountability systems to monitor, improve, and extend educator practice, program outcomes and student learning.
- Define clear purposes, goals, and working agreements for collecting and sharing information about professional practice and student outcomes.
- Guide staff and the community in regular disaggregation and analysis of local and state student assessment results and program data.
- Use information from a variety of sources to guide program and professional learning planning, implementation and revisions.
- Use professional expectations and standards to guide, monitor, support, and supervise to improve teaching and learning.
- Apply a variety of tools and technology to gather feedback, organize and analyze multiple data sources, and monitor student progress directed toward improving teaching and learning.