Day Two -21 Day Challenge

think back to your response to yesterday’s Challenge step, where I asked you to reflect on how you exercise instructional leadership. As you thought about how specifically you’re an instructional leader, you probably thought about what it is that you do to make a difference.

Today, I’d like to ask you an equally simple question, and I’d like you to leave a comment below with your answer:

When do you exercise instructional leadership?

So today’s action step is, think about when you actually do the instructional leadership activities you described yesterday. Do they happen in recurring meetings? Informally in the hallway? When do you exercise instructional leadership?

I exercise instructional leadership as a Deliberate Act of Leadership by planning the meetings that we hold with teachers. We set aside two days (usually not back to back) to meet with all our classroom teachers. They are scheduled to occur a couple of weeks before the mid-year reports are due out to parents. So these are held specifically in our term 2, week 2. (End of April, early May) every year.  This same process is then repeated again in late term 3, week 8 or 9. (Late Sept, early Oct). They are strategically placed at these times because we know that this is the best time because; they support teachers in writing their reports, they help leadership make decisions about extra learning support some learners may have, ensuring resourcing is adequate, as well as potentially planning professional learning for teacher. This timing also ensures leaders are able to report back to our Board of Trustees on student achievement and how our Target students are tracking towards achieving our Annual Goals.