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Washington State Leadership Academy
Our Purpose:
The Washington State Leadership Academy
(WSLA) is focused on higher student achievement for every child by:
- Engaging school administrators in transformative leadership
practices.
- Building and supporting strong, effective teams to solve complex
issues related to teaching and learning.
- Heightening education leaders' awareness and ability to self-assess
the personal characteristics and practices that lead to high-performing
organizations.
The Academy Believes:
- Transformative leaders can build collaborative learning systems that
promote powerful teaching and learning practices.
- Improved student achievement for all students will be the result of
systems that keep learning for every student as their central work.
Program Delivery:
- District-selected leadership teams will join with other districts to
form Leadership Learning Teams, which will attend Academy seminars
within their ESD region throughout the year.
- Academy staff and coaches will organize and facilitate
seminars.
- Coaches will support each team's work by spending time in the
districts and schools.
- Job-alike learning opportunities, as breakout-groups from district
teams, will be provided.
Timeline:
2008-2009
- Pilot Phase of the Academy, Pilot participants begin in
Fall
2009-2010 - Pilot Participants Graduate; Second group
of participants begin
2010-2011 - New group of district teams begin
program
Contact Information:
Washington State
Leadership Academy
1021 8th Avenue SE
Olympia, WA 98501
www.waleadershipacademy.org
Carol Whitehead, Ed.D.,
Director
cwhitehead@waleadershipacademy.org
425-359-2618
Merrilou Harrison,
Leadership Learning Specialist
mharrison@waleadershipacademy.org
509-910-7365
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