Month: July 2012

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Bird's Eye View ProfessionalEDGE

Find Your ProfessionalEDGE Here in Prince William County, VA

Bird’s Eye View from The EDGE Center Manager, Susan Johnson – The only thing I love more than working with our clients, is telling potential clients about what we do here at the Mason Center for Team and Organizational Learning and how it can help their organizations.  I was grateful to have that chance this morning at the Prince William County Chamber of Commerce Business Development Committee meeting.  Most of the attendees were unaware that Mason offered this type of professional development program to businesses and were pleased to find out that this was available here in Prince William County.  Thanks to the Chamber for inviting me to speak and to all who attended.  You can view my presentation here.

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Research Roundup School Session

“The Making of the Principal: Five Lessons in Leadership Training” by the Wallace Foundation

School Session – With 2012-13 school year planning beginning or underway, we wanted to pass along this very intriguing report recently issued by The Wallace Foundation about the importance of leadership training for school Principals. 

Excerpt from the Executive Summary . . .

“Experience and new research suggest that heeding the following five lessons could help propel many more districts toward the goal of having strong leadership in every school:

1. A more selective, probing process for choosing candidates for training is the essential first step in creating a more capable and diverse corps of future principals.

2. Aspiring principals need pre-service training that prepares them to lead improved instruction and school change, not just manage buildings.

3. Districts should do more to exercise their power to raise the quality of principal training, so that graduates better meet their needs.

4. States could make better use of their power to influence the quality of leadership training through standard-setting, program accreditation, principal certification and financial support for highly qualified candidates.

5. Especially in their first years on the job, principals need high-quality mentoring and professional development tailored to individual and district needs.”

The full report is available here and on The Wallace Foundation website.

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Community Corner

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