SELF Competencies: AP Professional Capacity

INSTRUCTIONAL LEADERSHIP: Cultivate high expectations and ensure equitable and durable academic, civic, and social-emotional learning outcomes for students and adults.

Professional Capacity

Develop the professional and leadership capacity of school personnel to achieve the school’s equity vision.

Indicators

• Recruitment: Support the effective recruitment, hiring, and induction of educators new to the school.

• Observation and feedback: Provide frequent, individualized, actionable feedback based on formal and informal observation of educator practice.

• Professional development: Develop and implement professional learning focused on equitable outcomes for all students.

• Differential retention: Support the retention of effective, culturally-conscious, and caring educators through effective support, development, strategic placement and evaluation.

• Instructional leadership team: Support the work of a diverse, effective, aligned leadership team to oversee instructional improvement work.

Evidence of Impact

• The school’s educator recruitment and selection processes align to the school’s equity vision and needs, involve stakeholders from the school community, and include opportunities to demonstrate professional skills.

• The school has a multi-year professional development plan grounded in adult learning theory, aligned with school goals for target student populations, and informed by classroom observations.

• The school has  consistent processes to induct, onboard and mentor new staff and provide ongoing coaching as needed.

• Staff members are frequently observed and provided feedback on instructional practices, with follow up to ensure improvement and completion of a formal evaluation.

• Progressive discipline and personnel investigations are completed in  alignment with district standards and expectations and in a student-centered way.

• The instructional leadership team monitors improvements in educator practice and makes necessary adjustments to professional development strategies.

• The school retains educators who demonstrate effective instructional practice and improved student learning.