Week-4-Activities



Administrative Leadership Team Challenge - Resources (Team)
Administrators are ultimately responsible for knowing what resources are available in their school, and determining the best ways to utilize those resources. There are different kinds of resources: materials and supplies, financial resources, and human resources. As an administrator, you can follow the well-established patterns of the school, identify new resources, or use existing resources differently.

Last week, your administrative leadership team identified a strategy or intervention to meet the instructional goal. Your team also addressed potential concerns about the master schedule and implementation of that intervention. This week, you will discuss how to effectively utilize your available resources to make that intervention possible. It is important to discuss what needs to happen to make this intervention take place, including implications for the budget, staff involvement, and professional development. >
 * Directions**
 * 1) The Facilitator should create a new thread in the team discussion forum entitled **Week 4: Resources.**
 * 2) Access your **school's budget information**.
 * 3) With your team, discuss the questions below to gain an understanding of the various ways budgets are created and manipulated. You may need to consult with a principal, a member of a school improvement team, an instructor, additional course resources, or draw on your own experiences to respond.
 * //What considerations need to be made when creating a school budget?//
 * //Within your jurisdiction, where do you have flexibility in allocating funds for a school budget?//

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 * 1) Use the questions below to guide your team discussion in response to the team challenge:
 * //How will you begin to implement your strategy or intervention?//
 * //How much money will you need to implement this intervention?//
 * //What financial resources are already allocated that would support your intervention?//
 * //Will you need to reallocate funds?//
 * //What material and human resources already exist in your building? How can you identify what resources are available and if you are using them effectively?//
 * //What material resources can be repurposed for this intervention?//
 * //How will you spend your budget dollars? What do you need to purchase?//
 * //Who needs to be involved in your intervention? Does it require a shift in personnel, or is it something that can be accomplished with staff members in their current roles?//
 * //How can staff members and other community members be used creatively to achieve your intervention (e.g., volunteers, across-age mentors, specialty visitors, etc.)?//
 * //What professional development needs to take place to support the intervention? What will be the outcomes of the professional development?//
 * //Who will conduct the professional development?//
 * //Can you use existing planning time for professional development, or will you need additional time in the schedule?//
 * //Will your professional development or intervention require additional fiscal resources, such as money to hire substitutes?//
 * //How will you monitor staff progress in the professional development? What are the budget considerations for progress monitoring and teacher evaluation?//


 * 1) By midnight Monday, your team should come to consensus on the financial and human resources necessary for implementing your intervention. Also, your team should identify changes needed to the budget and a plan for professional development that will allow you to implement your intervention to achieve your goal. The team’s Reporter should post your team’s response to the challenge in a clearly labeled thread in your team discussion forum.

Leadership Team Effectiveness (Team)
This week's Facilitator should create a new thread in the team forum, titled, **Week 4: Leadership Team Effectiveness**. Use your team's forum (or relevant non-ELC tool) to discuss with your leadership team, your overall effectiveness as a high performing team. Consider:
 * //How are the leadership team roles working out for your team? Are there any adjustments that need to be made in terms of stakeholders or rotating roles?//


 * //Is your team able to resolve weekly challenges effectively and efficiently?//

For this course, you will not need to give your team a rating. Instead, this week's Reporter should summarize the team's discussion about your overall effectiveness and post a summary in the **Week 4 thread. So that your instructor can easily locate your summary, please rename the subject to "Final Summary."**
 * //Are there any areas where your team needs additional support?//
 * //If you meet synchronously on a regular basis, how is this working out for all members of the team?//

Administrative Action Plan - Part 2 (Individual)
In Part 1 of your Administrative Action Plan, you summarized and described the instructional goal, and supported the rationale for your team’s vision. For Part 2 of you Administrative Action Plan, you will summarize and describe the intervention or strategy your team developed to meet your instructional goal. You will engage in root-cause analysis to determine the underlying problem leading to the lack of achievement that your team hopes to address. You will engage in strategic planning as you consider aspects of scheduling and other resources to best achieve your strategy or intervention. To support your ideas, you will integrate research and practice by citing articles from the Resource Library that focus on root-cause analysis, designing an intervention, and strategic planning and scheduling.


 * Directions**
 * 1) Read the **Administrative Action Plan Part 2 directions**. Also, carefully review the **Administrative Action Plan Rubric** to gain an understanding of how your plan will be scored at the end of the course.
 * 2) Complete Part 2 of your Administrative Action Plan, focusing on root-cause analysis, designing an intervention, and strategic planning and scheduling.
 * 3) Post your completed **Administrative Action Plan Part 2** to the appropriate section of the Gradebook by the end of the week.