Faculty Academy

Introduction to Faculty Academy 2007 - 2008
Presenter(s): Dr. Cedrick Gray -POSA
Status: Available
Air Date: 12/4/2007
Air TIme: 9:31 AM CST
Length: 4 Minutes 7 Seconds

The Faculty Academy is designed to assist principals and assistant principals in improving the skills and knowledge necessary to be an effective administrator.  Research shows that best practices begin with professional development.  As a result, Memphis City Schools has made a commitment to provide exemplary professional learning opportunities that build leadership capacity and assist principals and assistant principals in reaching professional learning goals established with the assistance of their respective academic superintendents resulting from the professional development plan. 

The Faculty Academy Modules were created using National Staff Development Council Standards, as well as the Interstate School Leaders License Consortium Standards, which both focus on leadership, collaboration, effective use of resources, using research and data to drive decision making, and best practices as an avenue to continuous instructional and administrative improvement. The proposed professional development modules will allow administrators to participate in a local professional development experience.

Presenters will engage administrators using a mixture of delivery modes (lecture, interactive, case studies, situational learning), as well as provide resources that will assist them in their respective school buildings.  Administrators will discuss creating professional learning communities in their schools, managing school resources more effectively (money, people, materials), collaborating with their school community’s to create a culture conducive to learning and professional growth, training staff to assist in analyzing research and data to drive decision making, and supporting continuous instructional improvement.  Administrators will collaborate in modules focusing on special education law, No Child Left Behind, teacher mentoring, school-based professional development, legal issues for administrators, instructional technology and building relationships both with the school and the community, and effective leadership strategies.

The development and implementation of The Faculty Academy represents an effort to establish standards of excellence and quality for job performance at the instructional leader level.  The Faculty Academy modules are based on the Interstate School Leaders License Consortium, which has been adopted by the state of Tennessee.  The professional development modules are also aligned with the standards created by the National Staff Development Council (NSDC).  These standards provide direction for designing a professional development plan based upon recommendations made from the principal’s evaluation instrument.