Crosswalk
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Superintendent
This crosswalk aligns relevant OLAC materials to each standard and each standard indicator within the Ohio Superintendent Standards, and provides recent, relevant, research-based resources and supports that can help professionals through the process of the Ohio Superintendent Evaluation System. The Superintendents Crosswalk also features focusing questions a leader can use independently or with a coach to help guide constructive reflection and professional growth. A free OLAC account will enable full access the OLAC resources.
Standard 2: Communication and Collaboration
Superintendents establish processes to communicate and collaborate effectively.
OLAC Focusing Questions for Superintendents, Standard 2:
- Have I established processes for effective communication and collaboration across my district and within each school in my district? To learn more, visit:
- OLAC Module: Leadership
- OLAC Module: The Collaborative Process
- OLAC Module: Assessment
- OLAC Module: Shared Accountability
- OLAC Module: TBTs: Bottom-Up and Top-Down
- OLAC Module: Family and Community Engagement
- OLAC Video: The Importance of Strengthening Family Relationships
- OLAC Video: A School Board Member and Superintendent Discuss Their Roles in Improving Outcomes for Students
- Council of Chief State School Officers: School Improvement Resources
2.3: Communicate effectively and openly and demonstrate willingness to collaborate with the board of education.
OLAC Focusing Questions for Superintendents, Standard 2, Indicator 3
- Would I like to know more about communicating and collaborating with the board of education? Resources include:
- OLAC Module: Board Development and Governance Process
- OLAC Module: Resource Management
- Ohio School Boards Association
- Ohio Department of Education and Workforce: Local Stakeholder Engagement Toolkit
- Ohio State Support Team Region 2: Seven Norms of Collaboration: A Supporting Toolkit (2017) (PDF)
- Ed Week Special Report: Improving the Superintendent and School Board Partnership (2020)
- Ohio School Boards Association: Board and Superintendent Partnership
- Would I like to learn about partnerships made possible through collaborations with the board of education? Resources include:
- OLAC Video: Board Members on the DLT
- National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments: Family-School-Community Partnerships
- Digital Promise: Innovative Examples of Community Involvement in Schools (Anderson, 2019)
- Ohio Department of Education and Workforce: Cross State High School Redesign Collaborative
- OLAC: Cornerstone Connections
- Would I like to learn more about open and inclusive leadership practices that facilitate productive district-board collaboration? If so, resources include:
- OLAC Podcasts
- OLAC Webinar: Superintendent and Central Office Leadership
- OLAC Foundational Concept: Distributed Instructional Leadership: What School and District Leaders Can Do to Make it Happen
- OLAC Module: Family and Community Engagement
- OLAC Module: Leadership
- National School Board Association (NSBA): Resources
Download Crosswalk Professional Development Plan
Consider using this to fulfill your individual professional development plan (IPDP) to be approved by your Regional Local Professional Development Committee (LPDC).