Education Leadership System™ (ELS)

One of the most compelling and confounding challenges facing public education is closing the achievement gap based on income, race/ethnicity and gender. No one can dispute that public education has left some children behind, and in some cases is more focused on the rights and comforts of the adults (board members, parents, staff, administrators, superintendents and the public) than the right of ALL student learning and development. Education Leadership System, developed by TeamWorks International, is a systemic approach to align the adults for ALL student learning and development.

 

There are several reasons why ELS is unique in its ability to help districts focus their efforts on student achievement:

• Clarification of the unique and differing roles, authorities and interests of the adults, which allows boards to govern well, administrators to manage well and the public to consult well for better long-term results
• Tools, processes, language and images which promote partnership across the six group of adults, which increases levels of trust, competence, transparency and interdependency
• Alignment of a District Strategic Roadmap (governance) with District Scorecards (management) and School Improvement Plans (consultation) which provide for continuous improvement communicated back to the board through Scorecard Monitoring Reports (management / governance)
• Identification of the key Mission Delivery Point, the relational dynamic between the teacher, student and family that is the most dominant influence on student learning and development
• Use of school, grade and classroom Scorecards and implementation of School Improvement Plans (SIP) based upon continuous improvement and changing what is occurring in the classroom to improve.

Alignment of the adults occurs when the six groups of adults operate together in pursuit of excellence in governance, management and consultation with a unifying focus on learning and development for all students.

Tools used with ELS:
FrameWorks Quick Reference Guide
ELS Guidebook
VisionCard Guidebook
FrameWorks Pads