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NSDC Academy Leadership Development Program

NSDC Academy Leadership Development Program

Issue:
Recent LEADS Human Resource workshops have identified administrator recruitment and retention as a significant challenge in actual hiring for vacancy and to the administrative skill sets to advance school improvement initiatives. The number of external candidates is alarmingly low. This challenge has been identified in three recent administrative hiring processes. It is now clearly apparent that Lloydminster Catholic Schools must develop leadership from within the organization. The "National Staff Development Council's" leadership program has been identified as a means of developing the talent of current administrators.

The NSDC Academy is an extended and profound learning experience that models the Council's vision for professional learning and teamwork in schools. Academy members work collaboratively to learn about and solve significant student learning problems that occur within their school, district, or organization. Through immersion in a model of inquiry-based and problem-based learning, participants gain solutions to the problems they and others bring; experience a model of professional learning that exemplifies NSDC's Standards for Staff Development; and construct knowledge and develop skills necessary to transform their learning, their work, and their organizations.

Academy members include district administrators, principals, teachers, and personnel from local, state, and national educational agencies, as well as university faculty, independent staff development providers, and leaders from nonprofit educational organizations.

Academy Goals

1. Members clarify, study about, and solve authentic problems related to student learning in schools.
2. Members construct the knowledge and develop the skills and courage to solve significant problems related to student learning.
3. Members transform professional learning within their own organizations.
   

Commitments

• Professional / Personal
  Each participant must commit to solving a significant problem related to student learning through a team and problem-based learning process, have the endorsement and financial support of the Director of Education, and agree to engage fully in the Academy learning experience. This is a three year program with a minimum of five extended professional development weeks in the United States and much individualized learning plan work.Each participant must commit to a minimum of three years of service to Lloydminster Catholic Schools following completion of the Academy.

• Financial / Budgetary
  A $10,000.00 per person allocation for the completion of the program over three years has been incorporated into the annual budgetary cycle.