Make an impact on student achievement by becoming intensively involved in curricular and instructional issues. To be effective, share leadership with assistant principals, instructional coaches, teacher leaders, and leadership teams. While other areas are important and equally urgent, teaching and learning must be high priorities if student achievement is to be improved.

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Introduction to Shared Leadership—An Online Course from ePD at Edvantia - Edvantia Professional Development & Technical Assistance

Develop a basic knowledge of shared leadership and gain insight into how it can help your school become a learning community. This four-week course introduces
- definitions of shared leadership, school culture, and professional learning community and describes what these look like when they're present in a school
- tools participants use to measure individual and school characteristics related to shared leadership
- research on shared leadership and leadership practices identified as having a statistically significant relationship to student achievement
- six functions of a school leader who effectively shares leadership: inspire, model, organize, monitor, support, reflect

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Principal Connections Online: Enhancing Student Achievement Through 21st Century Skills and Tools - Edvantia Professional Development & Technical Assistance

Learn through stories from real schools, videos from exemplary classrooms, and a variety of research-based tools, all with a special emphasis on the role of 21st century teaching and learning skills. Developed and made popular by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, these skills represent how and what students should learn within the context of a curriculum and how teachers should model them in their teaching. As you learn, you will develop relationships with other principals and administrators taking the course. An integral part of this experience will be reflecting, sharing, and communicating with this online learning community.

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Principal Connections Online: Focus on Technology Integration - Edvantia Professional Development & Technical Assistance

Delve into the best available information from research on technology integration and new compelling video clips of real classrooms where students are engaged in content areas using technology. Gain a better understanding of the stages of technology integration and how to support teacher growth. The course addresses recent policy as well as portions of the National Educational Technology Standards for Administrators (NETS-A).

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