Too often, principals find themselves consumed by the daily management of a school (parent concerns, discipline, phone calls, emails, etc.) and lose sight of the need to focus on leading instruction. Because instructional leadership doesnt usually rise to the top of a principal’s to-do list with all of the other fires that occur in a school, it is too easy to push the necessary monitoring and coaching of instruction and teachers to another day. In order for a school to make significant gains in student achievement, a leader that focuses on instruction is crucial. Principals must ensure they schedule time into their daily routine to monitor, coach, and lead instruction in order for academic success to be achieved.
First, read Defining Effective Curriculum Leadership from your required readings and resources. Then write a two-to-three page summary paper on this article. In addition to the summary of the article, reflect on what you have learned from this article by incorporating the following into your summary paper:
What are the first 3 things you would do as the new principal at a school to evaluate the state of curriculum and instruction in the school?
Why do you feel the 3 things you chose are important?
How would these 3 things impact establishing yourself as the curriculum leader of the school?
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