School Improvement

School Improvement

Let the Professional Standards
for Educational Leaders Work
for You

Edited by
Rocky Wallace
With Eve Proffitt and Stephanie Sullivan

ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD

Lanham • Boulder • New York • London

Published by Rowman & Littlefield

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Copyright © 2021 by Rocky Wallace

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote passages in a review.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Library of Congress Control Number: 2021933387

ISBN 978-1-4758-5990-4 (cloth : alk. paper)

ISBN 978-1-4758-5991-1 (pbk. : alk. paper)

ISBN 978-1-4758-5992-8 (electronic)

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Dedication

This book is dedicated to all of our education leadership partners in our neighboring colleges and universities across Kentucky, the Kentucky Department of Education’s school leadership support team, our education cooperatives and other education leadership support agencies, and our school administrators in P-12 down in the trenches. The abundance of talented and caring school leaders we have across this state is such a blessing.

A special “thank you” to Dr. Eve Proffitt and Dr. Stephanie Sullivan, whose tireless giving of several days of their summer to contribute in major ways to the editing of this book made all the difference.

Rocky Wallace

Contents

Foreword

Introduction to Kentucky Professional Standards for Educational Leaders (PSEL)

Eve Proffitt

1 Mission, Vision, and Core Values

James G. Allen and Ginger R. Blackwell

2 Ethical and Professional Norms

Rocky Wallace and Franklin Thomas

3 Equity and Cultural Responsiveness

Janet L. Applin

4 Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment

Stephanie Sullivan

5 Community of Care and Support for Students

Rosemarie Young

6 Professional Capacity of School Personnel

Michael Kessinger

7 Professional Community for Teachers and Staff

Ann H. Burns

8 Meaningful Engagement of Families and Community

Debbie Powers

9 Operations and Management

Teresa Wallace

10 School Improvement

Stephanie Sullivan

11 Kentucky’s Implementation of PSEL

Jenny Ray and Stacy Noah

12 Closing Thoughts

Greg Goins

Afterword

Bibliography

Index

About the Contributors