Brooklyn+51+ELCC+Standards

=** E.L.C.C. **= =(Educational Leadership Constituent Council)=

= **__Rationale__**: = How are school leaders not only held accountable for, but able to envision what mastery looks like within a school?


 * What do our P-12 student need to know, understand, and do?
 * What do our teachers and related staff need to know, understand, and do to increase student learning?
 * What do our school building leaders need to know, understand, and do to support teachers and building-level personnel to increase student learning?

A building-level education leader applies knowledge that promotes the success of every student by collaboratively facilitating the development, articulation, implementation, and stewardship of a shared school vision of learning through the collection and use of data to identify school goals, assess organizational effectiveness, and implement school plans to achieve school goals; promotion of continual and sustainable school improvement; and evaluation of school progress and revision of school plans supported by school-based stakeholders.
 * __ELCC Standard 1.0__: **

ELCC Standard 1 consists of of 4 Elements:
 * 1) Candidates understand and can collaboratively develop, activate, implement and steward a shared vision of learning for a school
 * 2) Candidates understand and can collect and use date to identify school goals, assess organizational effectiveness and create and implement plans to achieve school goals
 * 3) Candidates understand and can promote continual and sustainable school improvement
 * 4) Candidates understand and can evaluate school progress and revise school plans supported by school stakeholders

Overall, the elements of Standard 1 to: collaboratively create a vision, collect date to assure effectiveness, promote school improvement, and evaluate school process is to assure student achievement increases. The school's vision, mission and goals for success are documented in school improvement literature for all to see.

=__** ELCC Standard 2.0 : **__= A building-level education leader __applies knowledge that promotes the success of every student__ by sustaining a school culture and instructional program conducive to student learning through collaboration, trust, and a personalized learning environment with high expectations for students; creating and evaluating a comprehensive, rigorous and coherent curricular and instructional school program; developing and supervising the instructional and leadership capacity of school staff; and promoting the most effective and appropriate technologies to support teaching and learning within a school environment.

This standards requires leaders to promote all students' success through:
 * 1) INSTRUCTION and SUPERVISION by::
 * 2) sustaining SCHOOL CULTURE
 * 3) designing INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAMS: individualized and with high expectations for all students
 * 4) creating and evaluating CURRICULUM: comprehensive, rigorous and coherent
 * 5) developing and supervising PD
 * 6) building leadership capacity
 * 7) promoting TECH integration to support teaching and learning in a school environment.

= E__LCC Standard 3.0:__ = A building-level education leader applies knowledge that promotes the success of every student by ensuring the management of the school organization, operation, and resources through monitoring and evaluating the school management and operational systems; efficiently using human, fiscal, and technological resources in a school environment; promoting and protecting the welfare and safety of school students and staff; developing school capacity for distributed leadership; and ensuring that teacher and organizational time is focused to support high-quality instruction and student learning.
 * 1) School Management:
 * 2) Building expectations, student handbook, staff handbook,
 * 3) collaborative budget decision-making, spend only the $ you have,
 * 4) SAFETY, fire and disaster drill records, review compliance, crisis plan,
 * 5) staff meetings, professional development, staff recruitment and selection.
 * 6) scheduling, review and revise job descriptions for staff,

= __ELCC Standard 4.0__: = A building-level education leader applies knowledge that promotes the success of every student by collaborating with faculty and community members, responding to diverse community interests and needs, and mobilizing community resources on behalf of the school by collecting and analyzing information pertinent to improvement of the school’s educational environment; promoting an understanding, appreciation, and use of the diverse cultural, social, and intellectual resources within the school community; building and sustaining positive school relationships with families and caregivers; and cultivating productive school relationships with community partners.

//ALL ABOUT COMMUNITY//:
 * Developing relationships with school staff, students, families, care givers, community leaders etc. to ensure a strong educational environment for a school building.
 * Educational Environment: An environment in by which teaching and learning takes place.

__Actions:__ > > >
 * 1) - Collect and Analyze data in collaboration with faculty and community leaders to improve the school's educational environment.
 * 1) - Use community resources to promote positive understand between caregivers and school environment.
 * 1) - Promote undestanding through diverse social, cultural, and intellectual resources within the community.
 * 1) - Build productive relationships with community leaders to respond effectively to community interests and building needs.

= __ELCC Standard 5.0__: = A building-level education leader applies knowledge that promotes the success of every student by acting with integrity, fairness, and in an ethical manner to ensure a school system of accountability for every student’s academic and social success by modeling school principles of self-awareness, reflective practice, transparency, and ethical behavior as related to their roles within the school; safeguarding the values of democracy, equity, and diversity within the school; evaluating the potential moral and legal consequences of decision making in the school; and promoting social justice within the school to ensure that individual student needs inform all aspects of schooling. -Standard 5 states that the building leader must model ethical and moral decision making with regards to legal, social justice and democratic matters.

=__ ELCC Standard 6.0: __= A building-level education leader applies knowledge that promotes the success of every student by understanding, responding to, and influencing the larger political, social, economic, legal, and cultural context through advocating for school students, families, and caregivers; acting to influence local, district, state, and national decisions affecting student learning in a school environment; and anticipating and assessing emerging trends and initiatives in order to adapt school-based leadership strategies.

ADVOCACY: Applies knowledge and uses influence to advocate for educational environment.

__ACTIONS:__
 * 1) Advocate for students, families, and caregivers by using influence in government on the state, local, and federal level.
 * 2) Understand, assess, and predict the newest trends to make educational leadership decisions.

=**__ ELCC Standard 7.0: __**= A building-level education leader applies knowledge that promotes the success of every student through a substantial and sustained educational leadership internship experience that has school-based field experiences and clinical internship practice within a school setting and is monitored by a qualified, on-site mentor.

__INTERNSHIP/Profesional Development:__ Participate as an active member of state or national organizations, attend workshops, seminars, conferences for instructional leaders, revise and maintain a yearly comprehensive professional growth plan, serve as mentor for new building/district administrator.