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Chittenden Central Supervisory Union
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The Role of CCSU Curriculum Leadership Team Members

Curriculum Leadership Team members play a key leadership role in CCSU schools. Teacher leaders operate in a different professional space from that of principals, and are aware from their leadership vertical-team work at the SU level that they are to serve as partners with the administration in setting goals and monitoring the school's progress in achieving them. In addition, they should play a critical role in supporting each school’s best practice curriculum and instructional efforts (unit design and implementation, attention to assessment, and analysis of data for example) and in assisting administrators in maximizing resources towards those ends. The following is presented as “food for thought” concerning the roles

Curriculum Leadership Team members should play in their respective schools:

  • Keeping the Guaranteed Viable Curriculum and enhancing instructional skills in the forefront of professional dialogue;
  • Fostering teacher-to-teacher learning and development as in-house leaders;
  • Being actively involved in action research and promoting it to colleagues;
  • Maintaining and assisting the Principal in developing a collaborative school culture by leading within the school;
  • Supporting buy-in for school level decision-making;
  • Mentoring new teachers to curricular programs;
  • Engaging in continuous learning to improve teaching expertise in critical areas;
  • Providing comprehensive curriculum knowledge including goal-setting, planning, developing, and reviewing/promoting educational resources available in schools;
  • Organizing reviews of school practice with the Principal;
  • Auditing and supporting the allocation of  school resources for curriculum implementation.

To accomplish the tasks associated with their role, Curriculum Leadership Team members in CCSU schools need their administrators' support to engage both the Principa, as instructional leader, and their colleagues in the curriculum initiatives they are working on at the SU level. First and foremost, they will need time with the administration to communicate the status of their leadership team’s work and the implications for benchmarking progress on their school’s action plan. This may include support from in non-instructional skills such as rapport building, interpersonal skills, team building, coordination and conflict management, and creating communication networks. Curriculum Leaders also know that they have to offer advice and assistance for quality teaching and curriculum reform whenever asked for. They will need regular meeting time with faculty to accomplish this.

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