NCATE Standard A: Facilitate the development, articulation, implementation and stewardship of a vision of learning in a collaborative manner with the school community, including being able to:
1. Facilitate the development of a shared vision that focuses on teaching and learning.
2. Facilitate the development and implementation of a strategic plan that focuses on teaching and learning.
3. Use motivational theory to create conditions that motivate staff, students and families to achieve the school's vision.
4. Initiate, manage and evaluate the change process.
NCATE Standard B: Utilize information, frame problems, and exercise ethical leadership processes to achieve goals, including being able to:
1. Use qualitative and quantitative data to:
A. Inform decisions
B. Plan and assess school programs
C. Design accountability systems
D. Plan for school improvement
E. Develop and conduct research
2. Engage staff in an ongoing study of current best practices and relevant research and demographic data, and analyze their implications for school improvement.
NCATE Standard C: Demonstrate an understanding of and be able to apply principles of curriculum, instruction, supervision, and the learning environment, including being able to:
1. Create with principals, teachers, parents, and students a positive school culture that promotes the highest student achievement in a pluralistic society.
2. Develop collaboratively a learning organization that supports instructional improvements, builds an appropriate curriculum, and incorporates best practice.
3. Assess student progress using a variety of appropriate techniques.
NCATE Standard D: Demonstrate an understanding of and be able to apply principles of professional development and human resource management, including being able to: Work with faculty, staff, students, and other constituencies from all cultural and ethnic groups to identify needs for professional development, to organize, facilitate, and evaluate, professional development programs, to integrate district and school priorities, to build faculty as resource, and to ensure that professional development activities focus on improving student achievement.
NCATE Standard F: Demonstrate an understanding of and be able to apply the principles of organizational leadership, including being able to:
1. Establish operational plans and processes to accomplish strategic goals.
2. Analyze schools as interactive internal systems operating within external environments.
3. Monitor and evaluate progress towards strategic goal attainment and adjust as necessary.
4. Use appropriate interpersonal skills.
5. Use appropriate written, verbal, and nonverbal communication in a variety of situations.
6. Demonstrate and promote multi-cultural awareness, gender sensitivity, and racial and ethnic perspective.
Argosy University Graduate School of Education Course: E7134 Comprehensive Planning & Evaluation Course Standards are aligned with the appropriate National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) Standards and Indicators for leaders in the field.
