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Resource Portfolio

View the AHSI Principal Training and Support Workgroup Resource Overview to learn about tools and resources shared and developed by the workgroup.

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Leaders of high quality alternative schools are uniquely qualified and selected for their roles. The AHSI Principal Training & Support work group aims to enhance each intermediary’s capacity to recruit, train and support uniquely qualified leaders for successful alternative high schools.

The key desired result of the Principal Training & Support Workgroup is to enhance each intermediary’s capacity to recruit, train and support uniquely qualified leaders for successful alternative high schools.

Guiding questions for this group include:

• What are the core competencies of successful alternative school leaders?
• How do we better empower and support our school leaders?
• How is leading an alternative high school different that leading a traditional school?
• How do we recruit and hire the right people for the job?
• How do we support both instructional and non-instructional challenges?
• What resources, knowledge and expertise do we share as a professional learning community?

The work group has developed a set of core competencies of successful leaders of high quality alternative high schools and is using that information to assist each organization in enhancing its work with school leaders. As a result of this effort, AHSI organizations will contribute information and tools that can be used more widely to promote professional development and support for school leaders.

Workgroup Strategies and Deliverables:

• Create a document that maps each organization’s training and support strategies, resources and strengths
• Develop a set of competencies for principals of alternative high schools that can help guide our hiring and training practices
• Share digital resources across the network using ibackup.com

Process

• Schedule virtual and on-site collaborations
• Provide opportunities for capacity building and/or shared training and support opportunities for leaders from multiple networks
• Connect principals across networks to create an AHSI professional learning community

Update of Current Workgroup Activities and Focus

• View the Peer to Peer Consultancy Protocol
• View the Competencies for Hiring and Training Practices in Alternative High Schools
• Survey instrument to collect data needed to create maps of each organization’s training and support strategies, resources & strengths has been distributed to work group members. View Recruitment, Training, Evaluation, and Support Form. Download PDF
• Identified eight core principal competencies that align with current literature on this topic. View AHSI Core Competencies.
• Professional Development modules for first 3 competencies are under construction: Culturally Responsive Teaching & Learning, Building a Culture of Data Driven Decision Making, and Counseling & Motivating Staff & Students
• Principal Training & Support resources and literature, organized by competencies, evolving on ibackup.com