{"id":5480,"date":"2015-04-20T08:55:27","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T13:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gnof.org\/?p=5480"},"modified":"2015-04-20T08:55:27","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T13:55:27","slug":"community-impact-school-leadership-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/gnof\/community-impact-school-leadership-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Impact: School Leadership Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/201689682&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The School Leadership Center is in its 17th year of developing Louisiana\u2019s public and non-public school leaders in order to increase student achievement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe way I like to describe the School Leadership Center is that imagine an organization whose sole purpose was to help schools get better,\u201d says Brian Riedlinger, the CEO of the School Leadership Center.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Anna Faye Caminita is head of school at McDonogh 42 Charter School, and one of the school leaders the School Leadership Center works with.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Caminita is in her second year as the leader of McDonogh 42, and her 11 year as a school leader. For most of that time, she\u2019s been involved with the School Leadership Center. Back in 2007, Caminita was one of the Center\u2019s Leadership Fellows, and she\u2019s been anything but a stranger ever since. She recently got together with Riedlinger, to offer some feedback about the Program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe set up with 2 week long summer institutes, kind of book ending a school year that you work with the leadership, does that set up work seem to work for you?\u201d asks Riedlinger.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbsolutely,\u201d answers Caminita. \u201cThat is on the job training. At the summit institute, you meet with your leadership team and talk about the different things you\u2019re going to do, and then you go back to the school and then you do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Caminita says this kind of ongoing, relationship-based support is <em>so<\/em> effective, and so different from her initial training experiences.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEarly on in my career, professional development reminded me of a drive by,\u201d recalls Caminita. \u201cThe person\u2019s going to come in and present and then you\u2019re going to learn from them. And then they get in their car and leave. And then the teachers are to go into classroom and implement. Here at the School Leadership Center, you\u2019re working on the concept. You frame it out and what it\u2019s going to look like, and then you go back to your school and you do it. And then next month or so you meet and you\u2019re able to evaluate what you have done and what your plan was and if it worked.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Over the last eight years, Caminita has kept coming back to the School leadership Center as a resource for research, finding teaching candidates, and \u201cbecause this is where the action\u2019s happening!\u201d Caminta exclaims. \u201cIt\u2019s just a great network of principals and professionals that stay together and keep you on top of your game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you work in a school where leadership isn\u2019t talked about and taught, then you think leadership is just getting everybody together and having a meeting,\u201d says Riedlinger. \u201cThat\u2019s really not what it\u2019s about. It\u2019s guiding folks, but it\u2019s also being high energy, high ethics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And, says Riedlinger, it\u2019s about building trust \u2013 a basic building block the School Leadership Center teaches leaders how to establish.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have a teacher calling half hour before school starts, and telling you that they\u2019re sick, and that they wont\u2019 be in today. So now you\u2019re the school leader and in thirty minutes you\u2019re going to have a bunch of kids, so what would be your first response? Well often people\u2019s first response is why didn\u2019t you call me sooner? That\u2019s great but I want you to put you in the teacher\u2019s shoes and how that teacher now feels, because you\u2019ve completely discounted the teacher.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Riedlinger says good schools are built on relationships, and good relationships are built on trust.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to have leaders who \u2013yeah, I\u2019m going to take care of the task, but for the first 45 seconds, I\u2019m going to say, how are you?\u201d explains Riedlinger. \u201cLook, we\u2019ll take care of your class.\u00a0 Thank you. Well now the next time that person calls, it\u2019s much more likely that they\u2019ll give you more notice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Riedlinger says the way to build trust is to make little biddy promises, and keep them. Once school leaders and teachers trust each other, they work well together to help their students. That\u2019s how your school grows, says Riedlinger, which is the entire purpose of the School Leadership Center.<\/p>\n<p><em>Written by Eve Abrams for the Community IMPACT Series and produced by WWNO in partnership with the Greater New Orleans Foundation. 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