A New Vision for Instructional Leadership — an excerpt from the final report and multi-year strategic plan an 888-employee district took to carry its new system forward on its own.
By the end of the engagement, Saint Martin Parish had a shared definition of instructional leadership, a model showing who develops whom, and protocols for the daily work. What they did not yet have was a sequence.
Most strategic plans are a list of goals with owners and dates. That is why so many are still accurate a year later and nothing has moved. What changes an organization is knowing which work has to happen first — the work that makes everything after it easier.
This excerpt is the part of the report that does that work — the problem of practice, the theory of action, and the multi-year plan for implementation and monitoring, including the order the work was sequenced in and why.