Ohio Leadership Advisory Council ...
Ohio Leadership Advisory Council (OLAC)
Leadership matters. And today, more than ever, when the stakes to improve student performance are high, it is imperative that educational leaders are equipped with the knowledge and skills they need to meet this challenge.
Responding to this need, the Ohio Department of Education (ODE) and the Buckeye Association of School Administrators (BASA) formed the Ohio Leadership Advisory Council (OLAC) in March 2007. This partnership brought together distinguished leaders from across the state, representing diverse perspectives and roles, to begin tackling the challenge of what it means to be a leader and the knowledge and skills it takes to successfully lead.
The Ohio Leadership Advisory Council was created to examine how a leadership “system” for educators could be developed that reaches from top to bottom across all levels. This system, which includes superintendents, principals and teachers, would affect every level of Ohio’s educational enterprise–from the state, to the district, school building and classroom.
The goals of the Ohio Leadership Advisory Council work are to identify the:
- essential skills or practices that superintendents and leadership teams at the district and school levels must demonstrate to improve instructional practices and student performance.
- types of professional development and support needed to assist leaders in acquiring these skills, and how it can be deployed to all for universal access, as well as for more targeted or intensive support for districts that need it.
- tools or products needed to facilitate educational leaders’ development.
- policy implications that must be considered in developing a coordinated and coherent leadership development system.
Resource: www.ohioleadership.org/index.php
Ohio Leadership Advisory Council Video Presentations
October 31, 2008
The following video presentations were delivered by Dr. Linda O'Konek, Executive Director, Elementary Schools, Norfolk City Schools, Norfolk Virginia, for the Ohio Leadership Advisory Council, an advisory and study group whose primary role of the Council is to advise the Ohio Department of Education and Ohio Leadership Core Team in the development, implementation, and evaluation of a coherent leadership development system for Ohio.
Video Presentations
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- Superintendent Central Office and Non-Negotiables: Principals, Teachers, Union [wmv 164 mb]
- Cultural Change, Trust, System Shift, and Re-establishing Trust [wmv 70.4 mb]
- Parting Comments [wmv 18.4 mb]