CSLA: San Joaquin Valley School Leadership Center: Executive Leadership Center (ELC)

The Executive Leadership Center (ELC) seminar series is designed and implemented through a partnership between the Association of California School Administrators (ACSA) and the California School Leadership Academy (CSLA). The ELC curriculum is planned jointly by CSLA developers and representative superintendents from ACSA. CSLA staff designs seminars for ACSA's annual statewide Superintendents' Symposium in January each year and also designs the regional seminars implemented through partnerships between CSLA regional SLCs and ACSA regional leadership boards.

The Goals
Participants will initiate and implement systemic change and program quality improvement
in their districts in order to provide equal access to successful learning experiences for all students.

To connect the reality of the superintendents' work with the best practices of effective superintendents,
current research and literature related to instructional and organizational leadership, and analyses of the
challenges that schools will face in the 21st century.

What the ELC can do for you!

Initiating and implementing systemic change and program quality improvement can be an overwhelming challenge for superintendents. Executive Leadership Center offers a sequence of two-day modules that engage participants in examining the changing role of the superintendent in the 1990's and determining the balance of pressure and support that a superintendent must provide to bring about systemic change.

Areas of Focus

1.
Creating a district-wide shared vision of high quality student learning that reflects the evolving goals of the district community.

2.
Shaping a district culture of high performance and continuous improvement that fosters a commitment to taking action in order to achieve high quality student learning.

3.
Facilitating the development of the necessary skills, knowledge, and conditions to enable all individuals within the district's community - administrators, staff and students - to achieve high performance levels, continuous learning, and ongoing improvement of their work.

Participants will:

1.	Have access to CSLA resources
2.	Develop leadership for significant improvement in program quality
3.	Create strategies to achieve a vision of high-performance learning for all students
4.	Review major themes of the thinking, meaning-centered curriculum
5.	Create networking with other superintendents
6.	Examine the relationship between accountability and district improvement efforts
7.	Explore strategies to lead principals to high performance
8.	Develop a shared understanding of systems theory
9.	Explore ways to apply systems thinking

Who Should Participate:
Superintendents
Top Management Teams

Regional Executive Leadership Center
The San Joaquin Valley School Leadership Center is inviting Regions VI and VII superintendents and their top management members to a two-day seminar at the Pines Resort in Bass Lake, on October 30 and 31, 2000. Registration flyers will be sent out in August 2000.

ELC Seminars include the following:

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1.	Creating a district-wide shared vision of high quality student learning that reflects the evolving goals of the district community.
2.	Shaping a district culture of high performance and continuous improvement that fosters a commitment to taking action in order to achieve high quality student learning.
3.	Facilitating the development of the necessary skills, knowledge, and conditions to enable all individuals within the district's community - administrators, staff and students - to achieve high performance levels, continuous learning, and ongoing improvement of their work.