About Leadership Maps: by Stephen White
Leadership Maps™: A Reflective Look at Professional Practice
Leadership Maps™ are designed to provide practitioners an objective personal reflection and self-assessment of the degree to which antecedents of excellence are being applied in schools and districts. Items examine knowledge of best practice in content area, curriculum alignment, follow through on initiatives, establishment of priorities, knowledge of the change process for adults, understanding of high yield strategies and degree of implementation with staff, and a thorough examination of data analysis and what it takes to make standards work. Each leadership map provides a choice of responses along a continuum that allows respondents to carefully assess their knowledge of antecedents and to re-visit leadership maps™ as adjustments are made in their practice and in professional growth in understanding what works. Leaders are encouraged to complete multiple leadership maps™ during the subscription year, particularly when student achievement results are published and when changes are made in practices.
The leadership maps™ also provide districts an internal assessment tool that provides a snapshot of leadership in action across eight primary dimensions: Leading Change, Accountability in Action, Making Standards Work, Data Analysis, Content Expertise, High Yield Strategies, Leadership Attributes (Assessing Educational Leaders), and Planning, Implementation, and Monitoring.
Leadership Maps™ are particularly useful for those districts and school leaders intent on achieving excellence by examining the relationship between student achievement and adult actions (antecedents). It is the most comprehensive self-reflective tool on the market to reference the interplay between objective student achievement data and professional behavior and attitude standards based on current research and best practice.