Education Leadership: End of School Year Staffing and Budgeting
Issued by
East Stroudsburg University
Earners of this badge have successfully navigated a simulation in which they played the role of a first-year elementary school principal wrapping up the school year. They were responsible for creating, staffing, and resourcing a plan to improve academic achievement in the coming year. They encountered many stakeholders with varied needs that had to be considered fairly. As a tool for practicing school leadership and decision-making, they first reflected on their own core values.
- Type Experience
- Level Advanced
- Time Hours
- Cost Paid
Skills
- Balancing curriculum needs with demands from students and community to go beyond the prescribed curriculum.
- Handling the many, various, sometimes conflicting, interests of stakeholders fairly and transparently in your planning, while also adhering to deadlines
- How to navigate family concerns will addressing diverse identities in the school
- How to professionally respond to families and administration when there is not agreement.
- Reflecting on core values in decision-making
- Weighing decisions as they may affect degrees of stress and buy-in at your school inversely
Standards
Effective educational leaders develop, advocate, and enact a shared mission, vision, and core values of high-quality education and academic success and well-being of each student.
Effective educational leaders develop and support intellectually rigorous and coherent systems of curriculum, instruction, and assessment to promote each student’s academic success and well-being.
Effective educational leaders develop the professional capacity and practice of school personnel to promote each student’s academic success and well-being.
Effective educational leaders foster a professional community of teachers and other professional staff to promote each student’s academic success and well-being.