Our Work
Ohio Leadership Development Framework
The centerpiece of OLAC's work is the Ohio Leadership Development Framework. This framework promotes the use of collaborative structures—district leadership teams (DLTs), building leadership teams (BLTs), and teacher-based teams (TBTs)—to lead schools and share the responsibility for improving student learning.
The framework identifies six essential leadership practices that outline what the superintendent, district leadership team (DLT), building leadership team (BLT), and teacher-based teams (TBTs) need to do to improve instructional practices and student performance.
Area 1: Data and the Decision-Making Process
Area 2: Focused Goal-Setting Process
Area 3: Instruction and the Learning Process
Area 4: Community Engagement Process
Area 5: Resource Management Process
Area 6: Governance Process
Connecting Our Work to the Ohio Improvement Process
The Ohio Leadership Development Framework’s six essential practices provide the foundation for the continued development and refinement of the Ohio Improvement Process (OIP). When viewed as an organizational strategy, the OIP provides districts a template through which focused and intentional action can take place. It brings educators together through collaborative team structures to learn from each other, and it facilitates communication and decision-making between and across levels of the system (district, central office, school, grade levels, content areas, classrooms).
Supporting implementation consists of setting up the collaborative teams and processes districts and schools need to identify, research, plan, implement and monitor, and examine their improvement efforts. It also includes the communication and engagement, decision-making, and resource management that thread through the process.
The combination of OLAC's work in delineating essential practices ("the what") and the use of the OIP ("the how") to put them into practice has given many Ohio districts increased capacity to lay a strong foundation for continued and sustainable improvement.
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Educators can also earn credit for completing OLAC work.