Standard 1: Vision and Mission

An educational leader promotes the success and well-being of every student by ensuring the development, articulation, implementation, and stewardship of a child- centered vision of quality schooling that is shared by all members of the school community.

Functions:

1. Collaboratively develops, implements, and promotes a shared vision and mission for quality teaching and learning

2. Collects and uses data to identify goals, assess organizational effectiveness, and promote organizational learning

3. Creates and implements plans to achieve goals

4. Promotes continuous and sustainable improvement

5. Monitors and evaluates progress and revises plans

6. Acts in ways that consistently reflect the school's/district's vision, mission, and

   values

   Standard 2: Instructional Capacity

An educational leader promotes the success and well-being of every student by enhancing instructional capacity.

Functions:

A. Recruits and hires effective teachers and other professional staff
B. Develops individual and collective capacity of staff
C. Ensures on-going and differentiated professional learning
D. Supports staff with human, financial, and technological resources
E. Employs research-anchored and valid systems of performance management F. Buffers learning and teaching from disruptive forces

G. Provides emotional support to staff teachers and other professional staff

Standard 3: Instruction

An educational leader promotes the success and well-being of every student by promoting instruction that maximizes student learning.

Functions:

A. Maintains a culture of high expectations and challenge
B. Ensures a focus on authenticity and relevance in instruction
C. Ensures that instruction is anchored on best understandings of child

development
D. Ensures strengths-based approaches to learning and teaching
E. Ensures the use of effective pedagogy to close learning gaps
F. Provides ongoing, salient, informative, and actionable feedback to teachers and

other professional staff
G. Ensures the use of pedagogy that treats students as individuals and promotes

self-esteem
H. Ensures the presence of culturally congruent pedagogy and assessment I. Monitors instruction and instructional time
J. Employs technology in the service of teaching and learning

Standard 4: Curriculum and Assessment

An educational leader promotes the success and well-being of every student by promoting robust and meaningful curricula and assessment programs.

Functions:

A. Ensures program rigor
B. Ensures culturally relevant curricula and assessments
C. Maximizes opportunity to learn
D. Ensures authentic learning and assessment experiences
E. Emphasizes assessment systems congruent with understandings of child

development and standards of measurement
F. Ensures the use of learning experiences that enhance the enjoyment of learning

Standard 5: Community of Care for Students

An educational leader promotes the success and well-being of every student by promoting the development of an inclusive school climate characterized by supportive relationships and a personalized culture of care.

Functions:

A. Ensures the formation of a culture defined by trust
B. Ensures that each student is known, valued, and respected
C. Ensures that students are enmeshed in a safe, secure, emotionally protective,

and healthy environment
D. Ensures that each student has an abundance of academic and social support E. Ensures that each student is an active member of the school

Standard 6: Professional Culture for Teachers and Staff

An educational leader promotes the success and well-being of every student by promoting professionally normed communities for teachers and other professional staff.

Functions:

A. Develops productive relationships and trust B. Nurtures a commitment to shared goals
C. Provides for collaborative work
D. Facilitates shared ownership

E. Develops collaborative leadership skills
F. Promotes a climate of collective efficacy G. Fosters and supports the growth of trust H. Nurtures a culture of shared accountability

Standard 7: Communities of Engagement for Families

An educational leader promotes the success and well-being of every student by promoting communities of engagement for families and other stakeholders.

Functions:

1. Promotes understanding, appreciation, and use of the community's diverse cultural, social, and intellectual resources

2. Nurtures a sense of approachability and sustains positive relationships with families and caregivers

3. Builds and sustains productive relationships with community partners in the government, non-profit, and private sectors

4. Advocates for policies and resources for the community

5. Understands and engages with community needs, priorities, and resources

6. Communicates regularly and openly with families and stakeholders in the wider

   community

   Standard 8: Operations and Management

An educational leader promotes the success and well-being of every student by ensuring effective and efficient management of the school or district to promote student social and academic learning.

Functions:

A. Develops and demonstrates well-honed interpersonal skills
B. Manages student behavior with a focus on learning
C. Ensures effective leadership throughout the school or district
D. Crafts and connects management operations, policies, and resources to the

vision and values of the school
E. Monitors and evaluates all aspects of school or district operations for effect and

impact
F. Ensures the implementation of data systems that provide actionable information G. Uses technology at the school or district to improve operations
H. Manages organizational politics with an eye on school or district values and

mission
I. Enables others to understand and support relevant laws and policies
J. Acts as a steward of public funds
K. Develops and manages relationships with the district office or the school board

Standard 9: Ethical Principles and Professional Norms

An educational leader promotes the success and well-being of every student by adhering to ethical principles and professional norms.

Functions:

1. Nurtures the development of schools that place children at the heart of education

2. Acts in an open and transparent manner

3. Maintains a sense of self-awareness and attends to his or her own learning

4. Works to create productive relationships with students, staff, parents, and

   members of the extended school community

5. Maintains a sense of visibility and is approachable to all stakeholders

6. Acts as a moral compass for the school or district

7. Safeguards the values of democracy, equity, justice, community, and diversity

   Standard 10: Equity and Cultural Responsiveness

An educational leader promotes the success and well-being of every student by ensuring the development of an equitable and culturally responsive school.

Functions:

A. Ensures equity of access to social capital and institutional support
B. Fosters schools as affirming and inclusive places
C. Advocates for children, families, and caregivers
D. Attacks issues of student marginalization; deficit-based schooling; and limiting

assumptions about gender, race, class, and special status
E. Promotes the ability of students to participate in multiple cultural environments F. Promotes understanding, appreciation, and use of diverse cultural, ecological,

social, political, and intellectual resources

Standard 11: Continuous School Improvement

An educational leader promotes the success and well-being of every student by ensuring the development of a culture of continuous school improvement.

Functions:

1. Assesses, analyzes, and anticipates emerging trends to shape school or district decision making

2. Initiates and manages system-wide change

3. Enables others to engage productively with change experiences

4. Navigates change in the midst of ambiguity and competing demands and

   interests

5. Promotes a culture of data-based inquiry and continuous learning

6. Maintains a systems perspective and promotes coherence across all dimensions

   of the school or district

7. Promotes a culture of collective direction, shared engagement, and mutual

   accountability