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NEW STANDARDS FOR
PRINCIPAL SUPERVISORS
December 2015
Why Is Effective Leadership Essential?
Evidence links it to student performance
Second only to teaching among school-related
factors contributing to student achievement
No documented instances of failing schools
turning around without powerful leadership
Who Are Principal Supervisors?
Spend most of their
time coaching
principals and helping
them grow as
instructional leaders.
Are district leaders who
primarily support
principals in their work.
Principal
Supervisors…
Work to create schools
that are culturally/
socially responsive and
have equitable access to
resources.
Lead strategic change
that elevates the
performance of schools
and programs across
the district.
Why Are Standards for
Principal Supervisors Needed?
1
Principals face new pressures to improve student
learning and implement new academic standards.
2
Emerging research suggests principal supervisors can
help principals improve teaching and student
achievement.
3
But today principal supervisors often focus on
ensuring compliance with local and state regulations.
4
The Model Standards will help districts ensure that
principal supervisors focus on the actions that matter.
What Are the Model Principal Supervisor
Professional Standards?
 First-ever standards for principal
supervisors
 Voluntary and adaptable
 A practical description of what
principal supervisors should know
and be able to do
 Product of a 12-person committee
of educators, under the leadership
of CCSSO
 Grounded in the Professional
Standards for Educational
Leaders 2015
If principal supervisors shift from focusing on
compliance to shaping principals’ instructional
leadership capabilities, and if they are provided
with the right training, support and number of
principals to supervise, then the instructional
leadership capacity of the principals with whom
they work will improve and result in effective
instruction and the highest levels of student
learning and achievement.
Defining Instructional Leadership
Effective instructional leaders engage in a wide range of
leadership activities that directly connect to student learning.
They must:
 Model learning for others, through reflection, personal
growth, ethical practice and a focus on improvement
 Confront issues of equity that impede student learning
 Recognize and respond to the diverse cultural and
learning needs of students
 Increase the capacity of staff to improve student learning
 Make decisions based on how they affect student success
 Understand the systems that affect student success
 Share and distribute responsibilities for student learning
Developing the Model Principal
Supervisor Professional Standards
Two major influences:
 Feedback from practitioners and other state and
district leaders.
 Research by the District Leadership Design Lab
(DL2) at the University of Washington
underscoring that “principal supervisors matter
to improved student learning by working through
principals and teachers, specifically, by helping
principals grow as instructional leaders”
(Principal Supervisor Performance Standards
Version 1.0).
From Compliance Officer to Coach
 This is a major shift for the field.
 District redesign is necessary in order to
better support principal supervisors in
this new role.
 The Model Principal Supervisor
Professional Standards are not a job
description; principal supervisor
positions vary widely from district to
district, and evolve over time.
THE MODEL PRINCIPAL
SUPERVISOR PROFESSIONAL
STANDARDS 2015:
AN INTEGRATED APPROACH
Category 1: Educational Leadership
Standard 1. Principal Supervisors dedicate
their time to helping principals grow as
instructional leaders.
Standard 2. Principal Supervisors coach and
support individual principals and engage in
effective professional learning strategies to
help principals grow as instructional leaders.
Category 1: Educational Leadership
Standard 3. Principal Supervisors use
evidence of principals’ effectiveness to
determine necessary improvements in
principals’ practice to foster a positive
educational environment that supports the
diverse cultural and learning needs of students.
Standard 4. Principal Supervisors engage
principals in the formal district principal
evaluation process in ways that help them grow
as instructional leaders.
Category 2: District Operations
Standard 5. Principal Supervisors advocate
for and inform the coherence of organizational
vision, policies and strategies to support
schools and student learning.
Standard 6. Principal Supervisors assist the
district in ensuring the community of schools
with which they engage are culturally/socially
responsive and have equitable access to
resources necessary for the success of each
student.
Category 3: District Leadership
Standard 7. Principal Supervisors engage in
their own development and continuous
improvement to help principals grow as
instructional leaders.
Standard 8: Principal Supervisors lead
strategic change that continuously elevates
the performance of schools and sustains highquality educational programs and
opportunities across the district.
Learn more and
download the Model
Principal Supervisor
Professional Standards
at CCSSO’s website:
www.ccsso.org
Special thanks to The Wallace Foundation
for its support of this work
Special thanks to the Principals Supervisor
Standards development team
Dave Volrath, Chair
MaryAnn Jobe, Co-Chair
Deborah Akers
Kristina Brezicha
Frederick Brown
Andy Cole
Ivan Duran
Benjamin Fenton
Meredith Honig
Kathy Nadurak
Mary Canole
Irving Richardson
Addressing Implementation Issues
1. How will you use these standards to inform school
improvement efforts in your district?
2. How will you reallocate district resources and
central office responsibilities to effectively support
the work of principal supervisors?
3. What are your short term goals for implementing a
system of principal supervision? What are your long
term goals?
4. What implementation issues have you encountered
or anticipate to encounter as you begin to implement
principal supervisors? How have you effectively
addressed or will effectively address these issues?