The area of Leadership, Administration and Instructional support involves gaining support for your campus from all stakeholders. This includes involving parents at the campus-level and keeping them informed through constructive websites and blogs. Our campus does a great job of maintaining their website by providing the most up-to-date information that is both helpful and useful for all stakeholders. Communication is the key to building a relationship between administrators, parents and teachers. The Texas Long Range Plan for Technology, 2006-2020 for this area requires administrators to provide time for teachers to attend professional development meetings, PLC's and peer coaching. If there is time alloted during the school day for team collaboration, then there will be an increase in teacher participation. At the local level, our district fully participates in professional learning communities. Our campus has incorporated PLC meeting times into the school dya by providing a common planning period for teachers within the same content area.
Developing professional learning communities is a trend that has affected education at the state and national levels. Research has shown that having a PLC decreases individual teacher planning time and increases collaboration between teachers and administrators. Through the T3 grant, administrators are required to have 12 hours of training within professional development.
Administrators must continue to give teachers opportunities during the school day for team collaboration.
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