NATIONAL PRINCIPAL CERTIFICATE FOR EQUITY AND EXCELLENCE PROGRAM

Through this course, each candidate will develop/strengthen a coherent educational improvement system that advances their school’s progress toward achieving the candidate’s EEP target. Each candidate will engage their advisory team in taking stock to determine the extent to which stakeholders perceive the pursuit of the target as central to their work or another element of a long and disjointed list of expectations. Coursework and coaching will be designed to help each candidate develop a strategy for accelerating the pursuit of the EEP target by aligning various efforts in ways that maximize everyone’s sense of coherence. In particular, candidate’s will be challenged to consider how various elements such as professional development, schedules and routines, classroom observations and feedback, teacher collaboration meetings, and leadership communication might be focused in ways that help stakeholders contribute to the attainment of the target. Each candidate will guide their school’s planning process in a way that considers if the likelihood of attaining their target could be enhanced if they

1. increased clarity about the critical academic standards students needed to master (related to the target),
2. engaged personnel in defining common assessment tools and strategies that could contribute to the attainment of their target,
3. strengthened teacher collaboration in ways that improved the initial instruction (tier I instruction) provided to students (especially instruction specifically related to the EEP target),
4. developed timely, effective, and powerful intervention and enrichment strategies related to the target, and
5. ensured that all stakeholders (including students, parents, and teachers) were likely to feel both valued and capable as they pursued achievement of the EEP target.