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New Jersey Professional Development Initiative for School Leaders

STEP FIVE: Selecting Peer Review Committee.
This step involves selection of committee members to ensure that they can effectively provide periodic collegial guidance and support you may need.
Helping leaders lead: the role of business coaching A dialogue with a CEO. One of a series from Australia.

SELF-ASSESSMENT
* Self-Assessment of Interpersonal Capacities
* Self-Assessment as a Performance Improvement Intervention (a paper - see resources at end)

DATA RESOURCES
* NJDOE data
* NJ Quality Single Accountability Continuum (NJQSAC) and see February 2005 overview
* District Project Planning Tools for School Facilities
* NJ Report Card
* NCLB Accountability Workbook

Creating Peer-Based Organizations

"...the governing, leadership choices in the four key decision-making areas of strategy, tactics, operations, and functional departments will be made, not by the self-similar elites, but by councils of peers drawn from every level and function."
LEARNING TO LEAD, LEADING TO LEARN: Improving school quality through principal professional development, from NSDC. "Shifting to [a new] model of instructional leadership will not be easy for schools or for school leaders."

Leadership, from LeaderValues

A collection of articles