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Enhancing School Leadership in the Principal Pipeline Initiative (PPI) Districts:

Implications for State Policy

Agenda

November 13 - 14, 2013

Historic Inns of Annapolis

Annapolis, Maryland

Meeting Goals

Share The Wallace Foundation’s Principal Pipeline Initiative (PPI) work with state policymakers

interested in addressing overall principal effectiveness.

Discuss the translation of the PPI district-level work into state policy. Topics and key issues include:

o State principal standards requirements;

o State principal preparation and certification policies;

o State evaluation and accountability requirements for principals;

o Budgetary implications for principal pipeline work at the district-level and across a state;

o Technology and data systems necessary to support principal pipeline work;

o Partnerships and collaborations between states, districts, and the higher education

community;

o How the PPI district efforts may or may not work in rural and suburban areas; and

o How to sustain PPI efforts at the individual district-level and consider opportunities for

spreading best practices.

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

8:00 – 9:00 a.m. Registration and Continental Breakfast

State Lobby – Governor Calvert House

9:00 – 9:45 a.m. Welcome, Introductions, and Outlining a Plan

Governor’s Hall – Governor Calvert House

During this opening session, participants will hear an overview

of the agenda and framing of the issues, meet one another, and

have kick-off team conversations. Conversations will focus on

states’ issue areas pertaining to school leadership as well as

considerations for what would be the most helpful takeaways

from the meeting.

Speakers: Richard Laine, Education Division Director—

National Governors Association (NGA) Center for Best

Practices; Cortney Rowland, Senior Policy Analyst, Education

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Division—National Governors Association (NGA) Center for

Best Practices

9:45 – 10:45 a.m. Principal Pipeline Initiative (PPI) Overview, Impetus for the

Work, and First Year Evaluation Results


Andy Cole will provide an overview of The Wallace

Foundation’s initiative, including the four pipeline components

on which the PPI districts focus their work—leader standards,

high-quality aspiring leader training programs, selective hiring,

and evaluation and on-the-job support. Brenda Turnbull will

discuss early evaluation results of the project as well as next

steps for monitoring the initiative. Participants will have the

opportunity, after each speaker, to ask questions and apply

discussion topics to their own state.

Speakers: Andy Cole—The Wallace Foundation and Brenda

Turnbull—Policy Studies Associates, Inc.

Facilitator: Cortney Rowland

10:45 – 11:00 a.m. Break

11:00 – 12:15 p.m. Deep Dive: Charlotte-Mecklenburg and North Carolina


During this session, panelists will discuss:

Charlotte Mecklenburg’s overall Principal Pipeline

Initiative (PPI) project;

Tools and processes for pre-service recruitment,

selection, and training, including creating relationships

between districts and IHEs;

Strategies for developing and implementing a system of

evaluation and coaching support for school principals;

Examples of how the district and state interact as well as

the role of state policy and support; and

Opportunities for how district-level work can inform

state policy and for how state policy can support or

impede district-level efforts.

There will be opportunity during this deep-dive session for

participant Q &A as well as team discussion.

Speakers: Rashidah Lopez Morgan, Executive Director, Talent

Management and Project Director, Principal Pipeline Initiative

(PPI)—Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools; Mary B. Martin,

Associate Professor, Educational Leadership—Winthrop

University; and Thomas Tomberlin, Director, District Human

Resources—North Carolina Department of Public Instruction

Moderator: Andy Cole

12:15 – 1:00 p.m. Lunch

Atrium

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1:00 – 1:30 p.m. Remarks from Dr. Lillian Lowery, Maryland State

Superintendent of Schools

Atrium

Introduction: Jared Billings, Governor’s Education Policy

Advisor—Governor Martin O’Malley’s Office

1:30 – 1:40 p.m. Transition to Governor’s Hall

1:40 – 3:00 p.m. Deep Dive: Prince George’s County and Maryland



Prince George’s County Public School’s overall

Principal Pipeline Initiative (PPI) project;

Strategies for developing a management system focused

on principal selection, hiring, and placement;

Techniques for standards-driven and aligned principal

evaluation systems;






There will be significant opportunity during this deep-dive

session for participant Q &A as well as team discussion.

Speakers: Douglas W. Anthony, Project Director, Principal

Pipeline Initiative (PPI) and Executive Director, The Office of

Talent Development—Prince George’s County Public Schools;

Frank Stetson, Education Program Specialist for Teacher

Principal Evaluation—Maryland State Department of Education;

William Ryan, Associate Superintendent—Prince George’s

County Public Schools; W. Wesley Watts, Jr., Chief

Information Officer—Prince George’s County Public Schools;

Duane Arbogast, Associate Superintendent in the Office of the

Chief Academic Officer—Prince George’s County Public

Schools; and Robert Glascock, Executive Director of The

Breakthrough Center—Maryland State Department of Education

Moderator: Brenda Turnbull

3:00 – 3:15 p.m. Break

3:15 – 4:30 p.m. Video: The Principal Story and Team Discussion


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Participants will view the short video, Leadership Matters: A

Call to Action and engage in a team discussion about several of

the issues raised in the video. Leadership Matters: A Call to

Action is part of a documentary film project on school principals

and features commentary by ten education and policy experts.

The video is part of a longer documentary focused on school

principals that was commissioned by The Wallace Foundation.

4:30 – 5:00 p.m. Break

5:00 – 6:30 p.m. Reception and Roundtables

Atrium

Participants will enjoy a reception and have the opportunity to

participate in several content-themed roundtables. Discussion

may include follow-up questions from the day’s presentations

and/or other exchanges of ideas. Tables will concentrate on the

following four topics:

Principal training;

Evaluation of and by principals;

Common Core State Standards (CCSS) instruction and

principal support; and

Establishing a vision and mission for effective school

leadership.

Thursday, November 14, 2013

8:00 – 8:45 a.m. Breakfast, Welcome Back, Overview of Yesterday, Looking

to Today

Duke of Gloucester – Maryland Inn

Please join us for a special sit-down breakfast where you will

enjoy a few time-honored Maryland dishes.

Speaker: Sarah Silverman, Program Director, Education

Division, National Governors Association (NGA) Center for

Best Practices

8:45 – 10:00 a.m. Fireside Chat: A Conversation about State Policy Focused on

School Leadership

Duke of Gloucester – Maryland Inn Representatives from the National Governors Association

(NGA), Council for Chief State School Officers (CCSSO),

National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), and National

Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE) will discuss:

recent trends in state policy related to school leadership, the role

of state policy organizations in supporting efforts around school

leadership, and considerations for the collaboration between

states and districts on policy reform.

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Speakers: Cortney Rowland—NGA; Mary Canole, Consultant

on School Leadership, Educator Workforce—CCSSO; Sara

Shelton, Program Principal—NCSL; and Kristen Amundson,

Executive Director—NASBE

10:00 – 10:15 a.m. Break and Transition Back to Governor Calvert House

10:15 – 11:45 a.m. Deep Dive: Denver and Colorado



Denver’s overall Principal Pipeline Initiative (PPI)

project;

Strategies for developing an internal district-level

program for principal training and recruitment; including

creating relationships between districts and IHEs;






There will be significant opportunity during this deep-dive

session for participant Q &A as well as team discussion.

Speakers: Mikel Royal, Director of Leadership Pathways and

Project Director, Principal Pipeline Initiative (PPI)—Denver

Public Schools; Susan Korach, Assistant Professor and Program

Coordinator for the Educational Leadership Programs at the

Morgridge College of Education at the University of Denver;

Makisha Boothe, Director of Strategic School Design—Denver

Public Schools; Sandra Lochhead-Price, Director of

Leadership Pathways—Denver Public Schools

Moderator: Sarah Silverman

11:45 – 12:30 p.m. Lunch and State Team Time

12:30 – 1:00 p.m. Cross-Team Time

NGA will match up state teams in pairs of two to discuss and

plan around context- or regionally-specific issues.

1:00 – 1:45 p.m. Report Out of Learnings and Next Steps

1:45 – 2:00 p.m. Evaluation and Closing

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