Chapter 1
Strategic Leadership
Course: School Leaders Licensure Assessment 6990
Subject: School Leaders Licensure Assessment 6990
Chapter: Instructional Leadership
A school leader develops teacher capacity by providing high-quality, job-embedded professional development supported by coaching, collaboration, feedback, and ongoing monitoring. The leader ensures all staff receive professional learning aligned to student needs, school goals, instructional frameworks, and research-based practices.
1. How to develop and implement job-embedded, standards-based professional development that meets the learning needs of students and staff
Effective PD is aligned to school improvement goals, content standards, and student learning data. It occurs within the school day, tied to instructional priorities like literacy, MTSS, or culturally responsive teaching.
a. Developing processes to support teachers’ growth and student learning
• Uses PLCs, coaching cycles, model lessons, and co-teaching • Creates PD calendars tied to schoolwide instructional priorities • Ensures PD is job-embedded, ongoing, and classroom-focused • Integrates research-based frameworks (e.g., science of reading, Hattie’s effect sizes) • Provides follow-up coaching and practice opportunities